feat: support for passing rg parameters directly when search term is …

…enclosed by quotation marks

README.md

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ For optimal performance, ensure that the VSCode configuration _Editor: Enable Pr
 
 - **Search with Regex**: Use regex in your search query to find specific patterns in your codebase.
 - **Selected Text Search**: Highlight text in the editor and invoke `periscope.search` to have it automatically used as the initial query.
-- **Utilise `rgQueryParams`**: Create shortcuts for common ripgrep search queries via regex matching against your current query. This provides a way to map your query to ripgrep parameters via capture groups in the regex.
+- **Raw Queries**: Enclosing your `search_term` in quotes will allow additional ripgrep parameters to be passed through. eg: `"foobar" -t js` will search for `foobar` in js files.
+- **Utilise `rgQueryParams`**: Create shortcuts for common ripgrep search queries via regex matching against your current query. This provides a way to map your query to ripgrep parameters via capture groups in the regex for faster lookups.
 
 ## Configuration
 

src/lib/ripgrep.ts

@@ -40,7 +40,19 @@ function getRgCommand(value: string, extraFlags?: string[]) {
     ...excludes,
   ];
 
-  return `"${rgPath}" "${value}" ${rgFlags.join(' ')}`;
+  const normalizedQuery = handleSearchTermWithAdditionalRgParams(value);
+
+  return `"${rgPath}" ${normalizedQuery} ${rgFlags.join(' ')}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Support for passing raw ripgrep queries by detection of a search_term within quotes within the input query
+ * if found we can assume the rest of the query are additional ripgrep parameters
+ */
+function handleSearchTermWithAdditionalRgParams(query: string): string {
+  const valueWithinQuotes = /".*?"/.exec(query);
+  if (valueWithinQuotes) return query;
+  return `"${query}"`;
 }
 
 export function rgSearch(value: string, rgExtraFlags?: string[]) {