Add the possibility to have few lines of context in a search results
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(Webtools :: Searchfox, enhancement)
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(Reporter: calixte, Unassigned)
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I use a lot the options -A and -B with ripgrep to get few lines of context around the queried string.
From my point of view it's super useful to quickly guess what's relevant for me.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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We support context: in the search query fwiw: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=context%3A10+foobar&case=true&path=
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Nice !!
How could I have found that myself without filing a bug ?
It seems that's it works only for textual occurrences:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=context%3A5+defineLazyModuleGetters&path=
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Comment 3•3 years ago
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It's unfortunately a secret feature at this time because, as you discovered, it is only for full-text search. More details/rationale at https://github.com/mozsearch/mozsearch/pull/417
We're much closer to being able to provide this across result types. For the time being you can force a full-text search by using a path filter or enabling regexp. (Semantic results suppress full-text search results on the same lines, so in order to get full-text results only and therefore context, we need to not do semantic searches.)
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