Improve github search

[pakirby1]

Currently the search functionality for github could provide a better experience, see this for more info…

isaacs/github#908 (comment)

[TPS]

I know this is different than issues, but discussions really rely on upvotes (↑) than thumbsup (👍🏾). Could all y'all who 👍🏾ed go back & ↑?

[MichaelAkvo]

That's very confusing :/ What's the point of the thumbs up then?

[DiegoFleitas]

I don't even know if this a limitation of the search or a bug, but looks like a bug to me...

https://github.com/serverless/serverless/blob/7bb2520f491d008075eb08be64bdb2e0b60ec5c6/lib/plugins/create/templates/aws-nodejs-typescript/src/functions/hello/handler.ts#L3

[Quezion]

Searched a URL today -- first search displayed 0 results.

Second search for the same string showed 1 Code result, but still said 0 in all the leftside columns.

Can GitHub dump plaintext rgrep results? That or cut the feature & advise users search code locally -- because the current state of search is degrading for the mainstream code platform in 2022.

[TPS]

Heck, even just wiring Bing into this might be better.

[adrielldagasuan]

Same thing for me. It feels like sometimes you have to "prime" search by just doing multiple iterations, which is a pain and also not good for the rate limits.

[MichaelAkvo]

Are the alternatives to github's search? Searching nixpkgs for code barely ever works https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/search?q=vim_configurable

[MichaelAkvo]

OK, found 2 that had been recommended to me a while back

https://grep.app/search
https://sourcegraph.com/search

[davidstaheli]

A technology preview of GitHub's upcoming code search can be found at https://cs.github.com/.

[xiaohk]

The fuzzy search on the new code search is still bad.

For example, searching cv2.Laplacian(img, 3) gives 3 result while cv2.Laplacian(img,3) gives 0 results...