GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 441971
google-like search expressions and operators
Last modified: 2008-12-30 10:43:36 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. =============== 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.
This will be supported in xesam
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 ***