Instant Search Plugin for Zim Wiki

Search as you type in Zim, in similar manner to OneNote Ctrl+E.

When you hit Ctrl+E, small window opens, you can type in. As you type third letter, every page that matches your search is listed. You can walk through by Up/Down arrows or Home/End/Page Up/Page Down keys, hit Enter to stay on the page, or Esc to cancel. Much quicker than current Zim search.

Working with & Feedback

Known to work on:

• Ubuntu 15.10+ (still working on 20.04)
• Win 7 Zim 0.63+
• Debian 8.9 Zim 0.62+

I'd be glad to hear from you if it's working either here in the issues or in the original bug on launchpad.

With old Zim 0.68 you may want to use the last release which is 0.68 compatible.

Installation

Same as for the other plugins.

• Put the instantsearch.py into the plugins folder
  • something like %appdata%\zim\data\zim\plugins in Win, or /~/.local/share/zim/plugins/ in Linux
• You enable the plugin in Zim/Edit/Preferences/Plugins/ check mark Instant search.
• Type Ctrl+E and see if it's working, or report it here

Demonstration on YouTube

Wanna see how it looks in action? In this example, I just search for the string "linux f" twice.

Notes

• Prepend your string with an exclamation mark ! to search in page names only
• Pages are found containing every piece of string you write, ex: tour hou will match page containing words contour and silhouette
• Favourizes page names, headers and exact query string matches, those are ordered first.
• More reliable than current version of the internal Zim search where the query economical is not recognized if the part of the text is bold: economi**cal** (however highlighting works great), if a link is inserted in the middle: economi[[inserted link]]cal or if the query is hidden in the link: [[http://economical.example.com|link]].

Copyright and License

Edvard Rejthar, CSIRT.cz, released under LICENSE.