Autocomplete

The query box suggests as you type: operators from the first letter, then each operator's values. ↑ ↓ move through the suggestions, Tab inserts one, and Esc closes them. While operators are suggested, ? opens Help; among an operator's values it is typed like any other character, since globs (f:*.ts?) and regexes use it.

Operators

From the first letter, the box lists the matching operators; a short name (a, sym) lists its operator first. Each shows a short title, then a line on what it does: struct: reads Structural search, then "Code shaped like a template; each :[hole] takes any code."

Screen 5: Autocomplete: operators · Screen id operator-suggestions · milestone M2

The built panel

Values

After an operator, the box lists up to 10 of its values: authors with commit counts and when they last committed, repos with their index state, languages, time windows with how many files changed, file types and folders, symbol names, commit-message words.

Authors

Screen 6: Autocomplete: author values · Screen id value-suggestions · milestone M3

The built panel

Screen 19: Values: every author for author: · Screen id author-values · milestone M3

The built panel

Time windows

Screen 20: Values: time windows for since: · Screen id since-values · milestone M2

The built panel

A number lists each unit it can take (3 offers 3min, 3h … 3y). A whole window comes first, read as it parses: m is months, so since:6m lists 6m "Last 6 months" ahead of 6min "Last 6 minutes".

until: offers the same windows, each saying when it ends instead of when it starts: 2w reads "More than 2 weeks ago · Before Sat, Sep 19", with how many files haven't changed since, under the headings Calendar days, Hours ago and Longer ago. Neither suggests dates; type one (2026-09-30 or 2026-09) and it's checked as you go.

Each window counts the files the search would keep, as since: decides: in Git a file changed when it was last committed, or now when it has uncommitted changes, and elsewhere when it was last saved.

File types and folders

Screen 21: Values: file types and folders for f: · Screen id path-values · milestone M2

The built panel

Every other operator

Screen 22: Values: repo:, lang:, type:, kind:, case:, word:, count:, order:, is:, sym:, msg: · Screen id other-values · milestone M2

One board on the canvas, switched by its operator tweak. Each operator's values:

repo:

lang:

The built panel for lang:

type:

kind:

kind: offers its six kinds, each with what it covers.

case:

word:

count:

order:

is:

Each file state says how many files are in it now, and names the open and uncommitted ones; test, generated and vendored say what counts instead. Outside Git, changed says "No Git repo".

owner:

Each owner the open repos' CODEOWNERS files name, most files first, says whether it is a team, a person or an email, how many files it owns and in which repos; none comes last, with how many files have no owner. What you type narrows them, with or without the @. With no CODEOWNERS file open there is nothing to offer.

at:

The open repos' tags come first, newest first, each with the day it was made and the repos that have it; then times (yesterday, 2h, 2w, 6m, 1y …), each saying when it is: "Files as they were on Fri, Apr 10". What you type narrows the tags anywhere in their name, and the times by how they start.

sym:

ref: offers the same definition names.

msg:

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