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  1. Bitbucket Cloud
  2. BCLOUD-15876

Support "-" in code search | indicate if removed from query

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      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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              548fbafb44f7 Jason Mathison
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