114551 - LXR should be smarter about the context of variable and function names

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/events/src/nsEventStateManager.cpp#540

Click on status, and it returns a million files it appears in. Notice that
nsEventStateManager is way down on the list. I clicked it in
nsEventStateManager, so it should appear first. 

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/html/style/src/nsCSSValue.cpp#121

Notice when you click on strdup, it shows NSCRT::strdup as way down in the list.
Again it should be first. 

This is especially painful when there are millions of files and classes with the
same function name. It should be prioritized base on the class type of a
variable. If its an interface, then it should return first all the classes that
inherit from the interface, starting with the ones the object most likely is
based on previous lines of code.

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

kiko is testing out the update of LXR at http://mozlxr.async.com.br/ 

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 3

[Chase Phillips]

Mass reassign of open bugs for [e-mail] to [e-mail].

Comment 4

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Reassigning all LXR bugs assigned to [e-mail] to the default LXR owner (sorry Bear!)

We aren't actively working on these (if that's wrong, please reassign to yourself/a real person). 

Comment 5

[timeless]

theoretically this could be addressed w/ help from oink

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

mxr is gone, mass closing.
https://searchfox.org/ is a much better alternative.