In Sublime Text, how do you increase the number of lines of context returned by "Find All"?

Question

I am using the "Find All" feature in Sublime Text and I want to see a few more lines back from the find results. I can't find a setting for this -- is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

To expand upon DarkWater's comment to your question:

Add new lines with a regex before and after your search string:

.*\n.*\n.*search_string.*\n.*\n.*

This will match 2 new lines before and after your search_string.

Make sure you enable regular expression searching in the find dialog. Also make sure that you escape any regex special characters in your search_string.

Answer 2

Are you using the Find in Files… command from the Find menu (SUPER + SHIFT + F)?

If so, there's an option in the find panel to see more lines than the result line alone -- the next to last button (there should be 5 option buttons in the find panel), which has a "Show Context" tooltip, should do the trick.

Answer 3

To expand on the solutions provided by @dasl and @zaboco

I found that this variation was more suitable.

Example:

(.*\n){0,2}.*search_string.*(\n.*){0,2}

This will match 0-2 new lines before/after your search_string. Adjust numbers as needed to provide more/less context, but always keep the 0 as the first number in the quantifier.

Again, make sure you enable regular expression searching in the find dialog.

(The original regexes required that 2 lines above/below are present in the files, and excluded some necessary files from the search results)