zetl

Search

zetl search provides full-text content search across all Markdown files in the vault. search-history

(given fulltext-search-done)
(given regex-support)

Usage

# Literal text search
zetl -d . search "defeasible"

# Regex search
zetl -d . search "reason(ing|ed)" --regex

# With surrounding context
zetl -d . search "Cache" --context 100

# Case-sensitive
zetl -d . search "SPL" --case-sensitive

# Restrict to a subdirectory
zetl -d . search "given" --path "theories/*"

Content filtering

By default, search skips frontmatter and fenced code blocks to focus on prose. Use --all to search raw file content including Spindle Lisp blocks and YAML frontmatter.

Fuzzy page name matching

For finding pages by name rather than content, use zetl similar:

zetl -d . similar "reasning engine"

This uses SimHash-based similarity to find close matches even with typos.

See also: Graph Queries, TUI, Scanner

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