On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:
2015-02-08 0:32 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:
Just a random idea for Spotter, being able to exclude items from the search using a hyphen/minus sign.
I don't have a use case right now, but it "feels" right, so maybe one will turn up soon. Its a broadly used paradigm per google search ( https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en)
Also, it would be useful to be able to search on multiple terms similar to a regular web search.
A slightly contrived use case is that I want to investigate drag handling of morphs. So I guess entities will have the word "drag" and then maybe "handler" or "handle" but in which order? Will it be #dragHandler or #handleDrag or #handleEventDrag or #handlesMouseOverDragging: ? A single search term restricts me to having to guess and manually retry each possible order. Searching on "drag hand" and getting all possible ordering would be real nice.
cheers -ben
+1 for exclusion filter (You can already combine search terms - sequentiel. 1. search drag and in the result list (implementors) 2. search again with the term handler)
Thanks for the tip, thats cool. Still, doing it from the first window would be more immediate. cheers -ben
Just to follow up, I have been using that feature and I am finding that after searching for the method name, I can't just press CMD-RightArrow since that takes me to a list of classes. I need to array down several times to get to implementors and then press CMD-RightArrow, only after which I can type my second term. And presumably if I then wanted to do the same two term search for classes, I would need to CMD-LeftArrow, arrow up several times, CMD-RIghtArrow and type the second term again. It seems less friction if I could just type both terms on the first page, and get all search types (i.e. classes/implementors) matching both terms. The paradigm of a web search. cheers -ben