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xterm.js/addons/addon-search
Daniel ImmsandCursor fedf29e870 test(addon-search): add wholeWord and reverse-regex benchmarks
Add benchmark coverage for whole-word navigation and reverse regex
whole-word searches to guard optimization regressions.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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An addon for xterm.js that enables searching the buffer. This addon requires xterm.js v4+.

Install

npm install --save @xterm/addon-search

Usage

import { Terminal } from '@xterm/xterm';
import { SearchAddon } from '@xterm/addon-search';

const terminal = new Terminal();
const searchAddon = new SearchAddon();
terminal.loadAddon(searchAddon);
searchAddon.findNext('foo');

Search options

  • decorations: Highlight all matches and fire onDidChangeResults with result counts.
  • highlightLimit (constructor option): Caps how many matches are tracked/highlighted (default 1000).
  • incremental: Expands the current selection when the term still matches.
  • wholeWord, regex, caseSensitive: Control match semantics.

See the full API for more advanced usage.