python · sharktide · Mar 4, 2025 · Mar 4, 2025 · Mar 4, 2025 · Mar 5, 2025
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_text.py b/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_text.py
@@ -94,6 +94,34 @@ def test_count(self):
         self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'update', return_ints=True), 0)
         self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'update'), None)
 
+class TextSearchOptionsTest(AbstractTkTest, unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+        self.text = tkinter.Text(self.root)
+        self.text.pack()
+        self.text.insert('1.0',
+            'This is a test. This is only a test.\n'
+            'Another line.\nYet another line.')
+
+    def test_nolinestop(self):
+        result = self.text.search('line', '1.0', 'end', nolinestop=True, regexp=True)
+        self.assertEqual(result, '2.8')
+
+    def test_all(self):
+        result = self.text.search('test', '1.0', 'end', all=True)
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, str)
+        indices = result.split()
+        self.assertGreaterEqual(len(indices), 2)
+        self.assertTrue(all(isinstance(i, str) for i in indices))
+
+    def test_overlap(self):
+        result = self.text.search('test', '1.0', 'end', all=True, overlap=True)
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, str)
+        self.assertIn("textindex", result)
+
+    def test_strictlimits(self):
+        result = self.text.search('test', '1.0', '1.20', strictlimits=True)
+        self.assertEqual(result, '1.10')
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -4039,8 +4039,10 @@ def scan_dragto(self, x, y):
         self.tk.call(self._w, 'scan', 'dragto', x, y)
 
     def search(self, pattern, index, stopindex=None,
-           forwards=None, backwards=None, exact=None,
-           regexp=None, nocase=None, count=None, elide=None):
+               forwards=None, backwards=None, exact=None,
+               regexp=None, nocase=None, count=None,
+               elide=None, nolinestop=None, all=None,
+               overlap=None, strictlimits=None):
         """Search PATTERN beginning from INDEX until STOPINDEX.
         Return the index of the first character of a match or an
         empty string."""
@@ -4052,6 +4054,10 @@ def search(self, pattern, index, stopindex=None,
         if nocase: args.append('-nocase')
         if elide: args.append('-elide')
         if count: args.append('-count'); args.append(count)
+        if nolinestop: args.append('-nolinestop')
+        if all: args.append('-all')
+        if overlap: args.append('-overlap')
+        if strictlimits: args.append('-strictlimits')
         if pattern and pattern[0] == '-': args.append('--')
         args.append(pattern)
         args.append(index)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-03-04-17-19-26.gh-issue-130693.Kv01r8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-03-04-17-19-26.gh-issue-130693.Kv01r8.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add support for ``-nolinestop``, ``-all``, ``-overlap``, and ``-strictlimits`` options to ``!tkinter.Text.search``
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		Add support for ``-nolinestop``, ``-all``, ``-overlap``, and ``-strictlimits`` options to ``!tkinter.Text.search``