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* Making a few improvements to the multi-tree story | * Making a few improvements to the multi-tree story | ||
Then Erik mailed dev-platform and got tons of feedback about what they need from DXR and what their usage patterns are, and he realized that the textual query interface cannot be discarded; it is just too handy for custom keyword searches and search-box plugins. Erik, Schalk, Jonas, and rhelmer got together at the Santa Clara Mozilla Summit, chewed through all the dev-platform feedback and that from the DXR Innovation Fair booth, and came to these conclusions: | Then Erik [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/TW8If68UYZw mailed dev-platform] and got tons of feedback about what they need from DXR and what their usage patterns are, and he realized that the textual query interface cannot be discarded; it is just too handy for custom keyword searches and search-box plugins. Erik, Schalk, Jonas, and rhelmer got together at the Santa Clara Mozilla Summit, chewed through all the dev-platform feedback and that from the DXR Innovation Fair booth, and came to these conclusions: | ||
* We'll write a search query parser that supports Python-style quoting for regexes and everything else. Use double quotes or single quotes. Each can contain the other. If you really need to go crazy, you can backslash-escape the kind of quote you're using. | * We'll write a search query parser that supports Python-style quoting for regexes and everything else. Use double quotes or single quotes. Each can contain the other. If you really need to go crazy, you can backslash-escape the kind of quote you're using. | ||