Reggi

Interactively validate regex against test data in your console

Install

$ go get github.com/byxorna/reggi/cmd/reggi

Then, reggi some.txt files.txt to interactively test your regexp against your files.

Use

Input Mode

Enter a regex to match against the currently focused buffer. Matches are highlighted.

• ctrl-y enable match all expressions
• ctrl-l enable multiline match: ^ and $ match begin/end line
• ctrl-s enable span line: let . match \n
• ctrl-i enable insensitive matching
• Press esc to enter pager

Pager Mode

• i,a to go back to the regex editor
• H,L to change buffers (if multiple files are open)
• Normal pagination (hjkl, ctrl-f, ctrl-b, g, G)
• q,ctrl-c to quit

Dev

$ make dev # opens a fixture

About

I use rubular.com constantly, and wanted to make something similar that I could keep closer at hand in the console.

TODO

• implement different color for submatches vs matches
• implement a submatch expression explorer to visualise submatches as a tree