Search only in specific node types like files or classes

[egraether]

Add filter syntax to search bar which allows for only searching within files, classes, etc.

[egraether]

+1 by mail

[egraether]

Comment from duplicate issue #339

Something like :enum foo - would find all enums which contain foo . :record foo woudl find all structs and classes which match foo.

[egraether]

+1 by reddit

[egraether]

+1 by mail
e.g. use modifier strings: @Class, @method, @function

[deepankarsharma]

Can we raise the priority for this? Lack of usable search means I dont use SourceTrail inspite of paying for it.

[egraether]

Yes, it's in high demand and shouldn't be too hard to add. I think I can make it work.

[deepankarsharma]

How about generalizing this to an API/SDK to interact with the underlying graph. If the following two APIs existed then the tool would be very useful for me

a. Visitation API for the graph for a given project. User can subclass some visitor and override things like visit_function, visit_struct, visit_file, visit_namespace etc. API would be applied top down. Ie if an overridden visit_file returns false for a given filename then nothing from that file would be visited.
b. Ability to contribute QWidget based views to the GUI

[egraether]

Implemented with 2017.3.32

There are filter keywords for symbol types within the search autocompletion list now. E.g. selecting class will add this filter to the search bar and search results will only show classes. Filters can also get combined, e.g. to search within all function and method symbols.

I'm closing this issue now, but opened other issues for the additional suggestions:
#460 for Visitation feature request.
#461 for UI-Plugin feature request.

[egraether]

Now available in release 2017.3.48

[deepankarsharma]

Is there some way to enter into filter mode purely by typing text? I can pick filter from dropdown but things of form class: foo dont work.

[egraether]

• type cla
• press tab to autocomplete to class:
• type foo

You will only see classes containing the letters foo now.