</p>
<p>The search box is displayed by pressing Control and F or
selecting "Find..." from the "Search" menu.</p>
- <img src="search.png" width="400" height="152">
+ <img src="search.png" height="152">
<p>"Find next" will find the next occurrence of the
- specified and adjust the alignment window view to show it, and
- "Find all" highlights all matches for a pattern. The
+ query and adjust the alignment window view to show it, and
+ "Find all" highlights all matches for a query. The
"New Feature" is a quick way to highlight and group
residues matching the specified search pattern throughout the
alignment.
<ul>
<li>The search uses regular expressions. (understands a mixture
of posix and perl style regex - see below for a summary)</li>
- <li>Gaps are ignored when matching the query to the sequences
- in the alignment.</li>
- <li>Hidden columns can optionally be ignored (<em>since Jalview 2.11</em>)</li>
- <li>The search is applied to both sequences and their IDs, and
- optionally also to the description string (<em>since Jalview
- 2.10</em>)
- </li>
- <li>If a region is selected, then search will <strong>only</strong>
+ <li>If a region is selected, then search will <strong>only</strong>
be performed on that region.<br />
<em>Tip: to quickly clear the current selection, click the
alignment view you wish to search, then press 'Escape'.</em>
</li>
+ <li>Gaps are ignored when matching the query to the sequences
+ in the alignment.</li>
+ <li>Hidden columns can optionally be ignored (<em>since Jalview 2.11</em>)</li>
+ <li>The search is applied to both sequences and their IDs. <br />
+ Check boxes also enable searching of:
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Sequence description</strong> (<em>since Jalview 2.10</em>)
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>Sequence Feature</strong> type and description for currently displayed features (<em>since Jalview
+ 2.11.3.0</em>)
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
<li>Tick the "Match Case" box to perform a case
sensitive search.</li>
<li>To access a <a href="#queryhistory">previously used
highlighted region.
</p>
<p>
+ <strong>Copying highlighted regions to a new alignment</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Press <strong>Copy</strong> button or type Ctrl (Cmd on OSX) + Shift +
+ C to copy highlighted search results to the clipboard, enabling them
+ to be pasted to a new alignment (via Shift+Ctrl (or Cmd) + V).
+ </p>
+ <p>
<strong>A quick Regular Expression Guide</strong>
</p>