Wow, this is amazing. Million thanks for this, especially for the speed, the easy blame walk and the highlight. I always wanted to have a tool for the traversing history like that. One thing I miss is to see the revision number / contributor name on the side bar for each line on the sidebar in blame view. One question, is the source code public?
By the way I do not believe we all want the same thing from a code search tool, so I see nothing wrong in someone implementing a personalized version for his own taste, and some of us will benefit from it greatly. - Gabor On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Bill McCloskey <wmcclos...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to announce a new tool I've been working on for source > code searching called Searchfox (http://searchfox.org). If you use MXR > or DXR, I recommend you try Searchfox. Here are some of the benefits: > > - Besides C++ code, Searchfox indexes JavaScript, XBL, and IDL. You > can search by property name and, in some cases, qualified property > name (e.g., SessionStore.duplicateTab). IDL files link to both JS > and C++ implementations and users. > > - Blame in Searchfox is fast and easy. Every file includes blame > information in a gray bar on the left side, and walking through the > blame history takes only one click per revision. Each file in the > blame chain downloads quickly, and blame goes all the way back to > 1998. Say goodbye to the frustration of reaching "Free the > (distributed) Lizard" at hg.mozilla.org and finding that GitHub > blame times out! > > - Searchfox jumps to the actual definition of methods rather than the > header file declaration. > > - C++ template handling is a little better, files download a little > quicker, and other smaller improvements. > > If you would like to try out Searchfox, I recommend that you change > your keyword searches to point to it. Otherwise it's too easy to > forget and revert to muscle memory. > > Keyword search: > http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=%s > > Keyword search to find a particular file: > http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=&path=%s > > Some help on using Searchfox can be found at > http://searchfox.org. Also, you can see some screenshots at my blog: > https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/searchfox/ > > Also, here are some reasons not to use Searchfox: > > - You frequently look at repositories besides > mozilla-central. Searchfox only handles m-c. > > - You like MXR's ability to sorta index all platforms. Like DXR, > Searchfox uses a clang plugin that only analyzes Linux64 debug > builds. I'm very eager to fix this problem, but it will take some > time. Full-text search finds everything, of course. > > -Bill > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
