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make search suggestions more precise

Created by: rvantonder

  • The new additions only pull out file and repo, but we can easily support other filters that make sense (like lang) which filters down to files. Currently, lang is ignored, so when I type lang:go parse, I still get typescript suggestions for a function parse
Screen Shot 2021-10-18 at 2 31 11 PM

I suggest we go over the filters comprehensively and support all the ones that make sense (otherwise we might run into more of the above kinds of issues). if we run into filters that pose issues for some reason, it's better to show no suggestions than entirely irrelevant ones (IMO).

  • As seen in screenshot above, there are a lot of hits for parse. Turns out they are all different, but it's difficult to see because the path gets cut off. Can we investigate appending the file path of matches to that dropdown directly (and right align it, so that the last part of the path always shows, in case it's too long?)