Agreed. As long as the tool helps and run faster, it is worth a try. I’m also hoping that most of functions only on DXR can be ported to Searchfox soon, for exp, “Jump to file”, “Jump to bugzilla”. For syntax highlighting, just found literal string color and comment color are switched, is there any reason to do so ? To me, the styling on DXR feels better.
—-- Best Regards, Astley Chen | Mozilla Taiwan On Jun 7, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Gabor Krizsanits <gkrizsan...@mozilla.com> wrote: Wow, this is amazing. Million thanks for this, especially for the speed, the easy blame walk and the highlight. I always wanted to have a tool for the traversing history like that. One thing I miss is to see the revision number / contributor name on the side bar for each line on the sidebar in blame view. One question, is the source code public? By the way I do not believe we all want the same thing from a code search tool, so I see nothing wrong in someone implementing a personalized version for his own taste, and some of us will benefit from it greatly. - Gabor On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Bill McCloskey <wmcclos...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to announce a new tool I've been working on for source > code searching called Searchfox (http://searchfox.org). If you use MXR > or DXR, I recommend you try Searchfox. Here are some of the benefits: > > - Besides C++ code, Searchfox indexes JavaScript, XBL, and IDL. You > can search by property name and, in some cases, qualified property > name (e.g., SessionStore.duplicateTab). IDL files link to both JS > and C++ implementations and users. > > - Blame in Searchfox is fast and easy. Every file includes blame > information in a gray bar on the left side, and walking through the > blame history takes only one click per revision. Each file in the > blame chain downloads quickly, and blame goes all the way back to > 1998. Say goodbye to the frustration of reaching "Free the > (distributed) Lizard" at hg.mozilla.org and finding that GitHub > blame times out! > > - Searchfox jumps to the actual definition of methods rather than the > header file declaration. > > - C++ template handling is a little better, files download a little > quicker, and other smaller improvements. > > If you would like to try out Searchfox, I recommend that you change > your keyword searches to point to it. Otherwise it's too easy to > forget and revert to muscle memory. > > Keyword search: > http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=%s > > Keyword search to find a particular file: > http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=&path=%s > > Some help on using Searchfox can be found at > http://searchfox.org. Also, you can see some screenshots at my blog: > https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/searchfox/ > > Also, here are some reasons not to use Searchfox: > > - You frequently look at repositories besides > mozilla-central. Searchfox only handles m-c. > > - You like MXR's ability to sorta index all platforms. Like DXR, > Searchfox uses a clang plugin that only analyzes Linux64 debug > builds. I'm very eager to fix this problem, but it will take some > time. Full-text search finds everything, of course. > > -Bill > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
