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markdown_preview: Add search support to markdown preview (#52502)
Context

The markdown preview had no search functionality — pressing Ctrl+F did
nothing. This PR implements the SearchableItem trait for
MarkdownPreviewView, enabling in-pane text search with match
highlighting and navigation.

  Changes span four crates:

- project: Added SearchQuery::search_str() — a synchronous method to
search plain &str text, since the existing search() only works on
BufferSnapshot.
- markdown: Added search highlight storage to the Markdown entity and
paint_search_highlights to MarkdownElement. Extracted the existing
selection painting into a reusable paint_highlight_range helper to avoid
duplicating quad-painting logic.
- markdown_preview: Implemented SearchableItem with full match
navigation, active match tracking, and proper SearchEvent emission
matching Editor behavior.
- Keymaps: Added buffer_search::Deploy bindings to the MarkdownPreview
context on all three platforms.
  
The PR hopefully Closes
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/27154

  How to Review

1. crates/project/src/search.rs — search_str method at the end of impl
SearchQuery. Handles both Text (AhoCorasick) and Regex variants with
whole-word and multiline support.
  2. crates/markdown/src/markdown.rs — Three areas:
    - New fields and methods on Markdown struct (~line 264, 512-548)
- paint_highlight_range extraction and paint_search_highlights (~line
1059-1170)
    - The single-line addition in Element::paint (~line 2003)
3. crates/markdown_preview/src/markdown_preview_view.rs — The main
change. Focus on:
- SearchEvent::MatchesInvalidated emission in schedule_markdown_update
(line 384)
    - EventEmitter<SearchEvent> and as_searchable (lines 723, 748-754)
- The SearchableItem impl (lines 779-927), especially active_match_index
which computes position from old highlights to handle query changes
correctly
  4. Keymap files — Two lines each for Linux/Windows, one for macOS.

  Self-Review Checklist

- [ x ] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [ x ] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments (no unsafe)
- [ x ] The content is consistent with the [UI/UX
checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
(should be 😄 )
- [ - ] Tests cover the new/changed behavior (not sure)
- [ - ] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable (I'm
not sure about it and it would be nice to see experienced people to
test)


Release Notes:
- Added search support (Ctrl+F / Cmd+F) to the markdown preview

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Co-authored-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
2026-04-06 16:42:20 +00:00
..
src markdown_preview: Add search support to markdown preview (#52502) 2026-04-06 16:42:20 +00:00
Cargo.toml Remove workspace-hack (#40216) 2025-10-17 18:58:14 +00:00
LICENSE-GPL Debugger implementation (#13433) 2025-03-18 12:55:25 -04:00