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Suggestion
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Resolution: Won't Fix
Description
Original title "Improvements for code search"
Searching our repositories for something like "foo-bar" returned unexpected results because the "-" was removed and the search became "foo bar". After playing around with my query for a bit I had to read to the very end of the documentation to understand what was going on.
A couple of suggestions:
Source code commonly has symbols in it. It would make the search functionality vastly more useful if those symbols could be preserved and searched for.
If symbols are removed from a query, indicate in the results what the search became and link to the documentation about how searching works. This would cut down on
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BCLOUD-17394 Ability to search code including - character
- Closed