Cannot find pattern with view.searchText

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Hi all,

I cannot make ‘view.searchText’ works, using KatePart scripting feature.

Here is my current document tex :

aaaa
bbbbbbb
ccccccccc
dddddddddd
gggg family ggggggggg
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
zzzzzzzzzz


ooooooooo
pppppppppp
llllllllllllll
mmmmmmmmmmm

yyyyyyyyyy
tttttttttt

I want to find the first “empty” line (line with newline or space or tab only)

Here is my code:

var searchRange = new Range(view.cursorPosition(), document.documentEnd());
	if (searchRange.isValid()){
		var r = view.searchText(searchRange, "^\s*$");
		if (r.isValid()){
              // do something
		} else {
              // do something else
		}

r.isValid() is returning false.

I don’t think the pattern is wrong as it even could not find more simple pattern like “family.*".

It seems it find only fixed string (if I place the cursor in the first paragraph before the family string , I can find the pattern “family” .)

Any idea or remark is welcome.

Jhoran

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view.searchText can only do plain text searches atm.