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Bug 441971 - google-like search expressions and operators
google-like search expressions and operators
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 397355
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Jamie McCracken
Jamie McCracken
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-29 03:21 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2008-12-30 10:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2007-05-29 03:21:16 UTC
tracker (At least tracker-search-tool) SVN seems currently pretty limited in the way it can filter results. It only seems to use "AND", there is no "OR", "NOT", and expressions. What I'd like to see:


-: makes forbids the results containing the following word or expression
NOT: makes forbids the results containing the following word or expression
OR: allows having results containing the two words/expressions, or just one of them
" ": make the words inside the quotation marks an 'expression' meaning that the words must be found with the exact same order. Not case sensitive.

the operators AND, OR, NOT, should be case sensitive, I would assume. Additionally, you could add operators for tags. For example, «dog food tags:vacation» would return anything tagged with «vacation» containing the words Dog and Food.

Is that possible? I would love to be able to filter up my results quickly using google-like syntax.


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Some examples, stolen directly from http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

OPERATOR EXAMPLE  	FINDS PAGES CONTAINING...
vacation hawaii 	the words vacation and Hawaii.
Maui OR Hawaii 	  	either the word Maui or the word Hawaii
"to each his own" 	the exact phrase to each his own
virus –computer 	the word virus but NOT the word computer
red * blue 	  	the words red and blue separated by one or more words.
Comment 1 Jamie McCracken 2007-09-07 12:03:21 UTC
This will be supported in xesam
Comment 2 Ivan Frade 2008-12-30 10:43:36 UTC
There is a partial support of "and" and "or" right now.

Anyway, marking it as duplicate of "Rich query language" bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 397355 ***