Add option to make regex find the default. Closes #569.

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee b/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
index 22070084..2f30d47a 100644
--- a/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
+++ b/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ settings =
   values: {}
   loadedValues: 0
   valuesToLoad: ["scrollStepSize", "linkHintCharacters", "filterLinkHints", "hideHud", "previousPatterns",
-      "nextPatterns", "findModeRawQuery", "userDefinedLinkHintCss", "helpDialog_showAdvancedCommands"]
+      "nextPatterns", "findModeRawQuery", "regexFindMode", "userDefinedLinkHintCss",
+      "helpDialog_showAdvancedCommands"]
   isLoaded: false
   eventListeners: {}
 
@@ -572,13 +573,16 @@ updateFindModeQuery = ->
   # the query can be treated differently (e.g. as a plain string versus regex depending on the presence of
   # escape sequences. '\' is the escape character and needs to be escaped itself to be used as a normal
   # character. here we grep for the relevant escape sequences.
-  findModeQuery.isRegex = false
+  findModeQuery.isRegex = settings.get 'regexFindMode'
   hasNoIgnoreCaseFlag = false
   findModeQuery.parsedQuery = findModeQuery.rawQuery.replace /\\./g, (match) ->
     switch (match)
       when "\\r"
         findModeQuery.isRegex = true
         return ""
+      when "\\R"
+        findModeQuery.isRegex = false
+        return ""
       when "\\I"
         hasNoIgnoreCaseFlag = true
         return ""
diff --git a/options/options.coffee b/options/options.coffee
index ffa6bc44..27b08e38 100644
--- a/options/options.coffee
+++ b/options/options.coffee
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ $ = (id) -> document.getElementById id
 bgSettings = chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage().Settings
 
 editableFields = ["scrollStepSize", "excludedUrls", "linkHintCharacters", "userDefinedLinkHintCss",
-  "keyMappings", "filterLinkHints", "previousPatterns", "nextPatterns", "hideHud"]
+  "keyMappings", "filterLinkHints", "previousPatterns", "nextPatterns", "hideHud", "regexFindMode"]
 
 canBeEmptyFields = ["excludedUrls", "keyMappings", "userDefinedLinkHintCss"]
 
diff --git a/options/options.html b/options/options.html
index 089de394..d7851c75 100644
--- a/options/options.html
+++ b/options/options.html
@@ -272,6 +272,20 @@ unmapAll
           </td>
         </tr>
         <tr class="advancedOption">
+          <td class="caption"></td>
+          <td verticalAlign="top" class="booleanOption">
+            <div class="help">
+              <div class="example">
+                Switch back to plain find mode by using the <code>\R</code> escape sequence.
+              </div>
+            </div>
+            <label>
+              <input id="regexFindMode" type="checkbox"/>
+              Treat find queries as regular expressions.
+            </label>
+          </td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr class="advancedOption">
           <td class="caption">Previous Patterns</td>
           <td verticalAlign="top">
               <div class="help">