Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

[Erik Rose]

Thanks, everyone, for your thoughtful and voluminous input! I bequeath you the following behind-the-scenes links so you can see the effect your feedback is having on DXR's future.

We've collected, de-duped, and categorized your feedback at https://wiki.mozilla.org/DXR_UI_Refresh#Feedback. If you see your request grossly mischaracterized or omitted, feel free to edit. I'm watching the page.

I've done a first cut at immediate goals just above that, at https://wiki.mozilla.org/DXR_UI_Refresh#Plans_And_Priorities.

Finally, there's a rough draft at a revised (and more sensical) query syntax up at https://github.com/erikrose/dxr/blob/query-parser/docs/queries.rst.

This is just the beginning. I'll be posting updates at https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/tag/dxr/ whenever there's something useful to say, and you can watch the DXR_UI_Refresh wiki page if you want more frequent updates.

Cheers,
Erik

[Jonas Finnemann Jensen]

Hi,

It was fun hanging out at the summit... I like the simplifications, but
have 3 quick comments:

1) You forgot the exclusion prefix "-", for queries like: -excludedkeyword
-"excluded phrase" -path:*.cpp

2) I saw fully qualified names under "To Be Determined" I hope you keep
them around for links. Due to
whitespace issues and macros they're not useful for the user... Other than
as context menu links to search queries
which can then be refined.

3) Consider adding multiline search to "To Be Determined" :)


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Regards Jonas Finnemann Jensen.


2013/10/9 Erik Rose <er...@mozilla.com>

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[Erik Rose]

> It was fun hanging out at the summit... I like the simplifications, but have 3 quick comments:
>
> 1) You forgot the exclusion prefix "-", for queries like: -excludedkeyword -"excluded phrase" -path:*.cpp

Good catch. Fixed!

> 2) I saw fully qualified names under "To Be Determined" I hope you keep them around for links.

Oh, yes, I plan to. If you read carefully, you'll see that only the spelling is to be determined. :-)

> Due to whitespace issues and macros they're not useful for the user...

Oh really? I was not aware of that and would benefit from elaboration.

> 3) Consider adding multiline search to "To Be Determined" :)

If that's not on the wiki, please add it. We'll probably need to do a bunch of index work before adding that to the query syntax will do any good. :-)

Erik