On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 2015-02-08 0:32 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> 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
