Configurable / templatized search output

[colearendt]

• Please describe the feature you would like to have.

Related to #415 and #491

I think certain search output would be nice if it were more customizable / configurable.

For instance, if I have a convention to make the first line of my note the "title" for a given book, it would be nice to always include the title in my search output.

Other times, I trust my search and would love to be thrown into a PAGER where all note content is appended together (perhaps with some clear markdown delimiters / etc.) so I can continue searching / read full context / etc.

In other cases, I might want to sort by "note create date," "last updated," or other fields that are generally not available in the CLI / UX.

• What alternatives have you considered?

None really.

• Any additional context

Current workflow:

• dnote find sometopic
• Try to guess based on context clues which note is the one I want
• dnote view number

Proposed:

• dnote find sometopic
• done (depends a bit on user customization)

[sungwoncho]

What do you think about an option to print the surrounding lines? It'd be similar to grep -B and grep -A (show the number of lines before and after the match).

dnote find -S 5 sometopic # prints 5 lines before/after each match

[colearendt]

I like that idea a lot! Note that grep -C 5 is equivalent to grep -B 5 -A 5, so this seems similar to -C.

These other cases seem relevant, but not sure whether that is reasonable or not:

• sort by "note create date," "last updated," or other fields that are generally not available in the CLI / UX.
• I don't need a ton of context, just the "title" / first line of the note. cf Note title #148