find_in_scope.py

import sublime
import sublime_plugin

class FindInScope(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):

    def run(self, edit, pattern='', scope='-comment'):
        view = self.view
        sel = view.sel()

        if len(sel) > 0 and pattern == '':
            pattern = view.substr(sel[0])
        if pattern == '':
            pattern = self.pattern

        self.pattern = pattern
        self.results = list(filter(lambda region: view.match_selector(region.begin(), scope), view.find_all(pattern)))

        locations = list(map(lambda region: (region, view.rowcol(region.begin())), self.results))
        print('found %d results' % len(self.results))

        navigate_to_symbol(view, pattern, locations)


def navigate_to_symbol(view, symbol, locations):

    def select_entry(window, locations, idx):
        region, rowcol = locations[idx]
        view.sel().clear()
        view.sel().add(region)
        view.show(region)

    def format_location(l):
        region, rowcol = l
        row, col = rowcol

        return str(row + 1) + ': ... ' + view.substr(sublime.Region(region.begin() - 10, region.end() + 10)) + ' ...'

    if len(locations) == 0:
        sublime.status_message("Unable to find " + symbol)
    elif len(locations) == 1:
        select_entry(view.window(), locations, 0)
    else:
        window = view.window()
        window.show_quick_panel(
            items = [format_location(l) for l in locations],
            on_select = lambda x: select_entry(window, locations, x),
            flags = sublime.KEEP_OPEN_ON_FOCUS_LOST)

Plugin for Sublime Text that finds the given pattern in a specific scope.
For using it add something like:

{ "command": "find_in_scope", "keys": ["ctrl+e"] },

in your key binding file. By default it will use the current selection to search, and will search outside of comments.

The navigate_to_symbol function is adapted from the same function taken from default Package symbol.py shipped with Sublime Text 3

Here is what I got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/sublime_text/sublime_plugin.py", line 574, in run_
return self.run(edit)
File "/home/dj/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/find_in_scope.py", line 13, in run
pattern = self.pattern
AttributeError: 'FindInScope' object has no attribute 'pattern'

@PROSTI: that mean you're trying to search without telling the code what it should search.

does this work for sublime 3?

not really sure if this is working correctly. I get a dropdown menu with all the results. Is this correct? is it possible to use any of the search options such as case sensitive, whole word, etc?

@fabeit This is working as implemented :-)
There is no API to create a regular search result page so I used the dropdown API.
You can use other search options by modifing the call to "find_all" and using the flags described in the documentation.

https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html

The best way would be to chose those flags based on an extra parameters passed to the run method.

Am I correct that this doesn't work if scopes are mixed, e.g., you have
wordA inline_comment wordB
you wouldn't be able to search wordA wordB with scope set to -comment
(I've tried and it didn't work, but not sure if it's possible to tweak something to make it work)