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Re:Searchcode: A source code search engine by chdir on Thursday June 26, 2014 @12:51AM (#7948187)
I use sourcegraph occasionally and mostly rely on Gihub search. I wish the search has all those advanced refinement options that grep & Sublime Text search has. Some examples would be to use regex, search a word within a scope of lines, search within search results etc. Additionally, it's very useful to be able to sort the search results by stars/forks. Sometimes I just want to see how popular projects have implemented a certain feature. A keyword based search isn't enough for that.

I guess these features are very expensive & slow to implement but it would be super useful if it can be achieved. Source code search is for geeks so it is probably fair to say that a truly advanced & complex interface won't turn away users.

Re:Searchcode: A source code search engine by boyter on Thursday June 26, 2014 @05:21AM (#7948717)
Sounds like what I want to achieve with searchcode. I am working on most of what you have listed there. If you want to email me with your ideas on how these features should work I would be more then happy to add them. My email is in my bio and listed on searchcode
Re:Searchcode: A source code search engine by chdir on Thursday June 26, 2014 @12:12PM (#7950323)
That sounds great. If I have something useful to contribute, I'll get in touch.