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Searching

Dendwrite uses regular expressions to specify what to search for. Regular expressions are an extremely powerful and compact way to specify a search pattern. Unfortunately, this power comes at a price, because regular expressions are notoriously tricky to specify.

Here, we mention the the essential search patterns in Dendwrite. This section will fill out as Dendwrite advances.

Statement	Action
/	Search, matching URLs, page content, titles and any other associated information. This methodology will search the children first ("depth first")
?	Searches in a "breadth-first" fashion, that is, siblings will be searched prior to children
:grep	Rather that incrementally searching, bring up a complete list of nodes matching this criterion which can be opened individually.
n	Move to the next node
p	Move to the previous node

Moving Around

Moving around in Dendwrite follows basic conventions originally established by the editor vim. They are a convienent way to move around swiftly in a structure that is sometimes challenging to traverse using the mouse alone.

Statement	Action
[count]h	Move [count] siblings to the right.
[count]l	Move [count] siblings to the left.
[count]j	Move [count] children downwards.
[count]k	Move [count] parents upwards
`/m	Mark a node with m and jump back to it later with \ `