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Re:Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub by hiccuphippo on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:13PM (#18018713)
I really hope you are right and have your priorities straight when it comes to search. I'd love for a way to search for usages of a class::method, or for strings that contain the text "hello" or for variables named foo. And if you integrate that into the code itself, Ctrl+click a class method to find all usages, maybe even usages in other repositories, so I can see how other people use a certain library.

And of course good old regex search.

Re:Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub by hv42 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:21AM (#18022144)
Sourcegraph does this quite well if you need.
Re:Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub by lynxaegon on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:51PM (#18019493)
They are tagging so much code with text, that i'm sure they have something groundbreaking.