1478333 - Text filter should affect executed commands and their results

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Description

[goddard]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180611123338

Steps to reproduce:

1. ctrl+shift+k
2. type 'navigator.userAgent', press 'enter'
3. click in filter output and type 'xxxx'


Actual results:

the result is not filtered


Expected results:

the result is filtered

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Hello there, thanks for filing this issue

So, by design, we never filter: 
- inputs the user entered
- results of those inputs

This is why you still see them.
If you evaluate `console.log(navigator.userAgent)` however, filtering with "xxx" will hide the message, since it comes from the console API (which is probably what you use in your website to log things).

We did this because of 2 reason: 
- it would be too weird to hide sometime the input and not its result (think if you type `1+1` and then filter on `2`, you wouldn't know where it comes from).
- we are consistent with Chrome console behavior so users who use both tools have a consistent experience.

Now what we could do it apply the filter on both the input and its result, and if one of the 2 matches the filter, display them both.

Would this work for you ?

Comment 2

[goddard]

thank you for the explanation, please feel free to close this bz.