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hackjutsu / Lepton

💻 Democratizing Snippet Management (macOS/Win/Linux)
https://hackjutsu.com/Lepton
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Feature request: search gist content #82

Open kergoth opened 7 years ago

kergoth commented 7 years ago

It'd be nice if the search covered more than just description/filename, as quite often what I'm looking for is a command inside a shell script or something :) For example, GistBox supports this (though has other weaknesses, i.e. the tags are local to the app, not stored in the gists).

hackjutsu commented 7 years ago

@kergoth

Thanks for feedback. Lepton uses "lazy loading" for gists, which means the gist content is not fetched until users click on it. This mechanism limits the local search's capability, since it can only search for what has been downloaded.

The next release(the coming weekend) will have a big improvement on the search quality, like fuzzy search and unicode support. But as I just mentioned, I haven't come up with a good solution for content search yet.

All suggestions or PR will be welcome:)

P.S. GistBox is a cool project, but its development seems to be slow recently. That's one of reasons I start a new project for Gist.

kergoth commented 7 years ago

Fair enough, I figured the fetching was the issue, as I'm guessing the gist api doesn't provide content search. Thanks for the quick reply, I look forward to playing with Lepton more, you've done nice work so far. It's a shame github's built in gist UI is so limited, particularly for those of us with a lot of gists :)

AStupidBear commented 7 years ago

+1

ghost commented 5 years ago

Still a highly desired feature.

supremeo commented 5 years ago

+1 this drastically limits the functionality of this otherwise super cool app.

dmwyatt commented 4 years ago

I'd prefer a toggle or button that went ahead and forced a download of all gists so that we could do content search.

In other words, search continued to just search description and filename, but we could force it to go ahead and download everything so it could be searched.

zhezh commented 4 years ago

Since gists are mostly text, it will not take much storage space to download them all. I guess full text search on the cached gists would be a good choice.

palexof commented 4 years ago

I just cannot beleive there is not a single tool which supports searching through the contents of your gists. How hard should it be to download all gists throught the GutHub API, put them in an sqllite file and do some good old information retreival?!?

ikaygorodov commented 3 years ago

+1 This feauter is really required. I would also agree that text files should not take to much space.

ljian3377 commented 3 years ago

Github support search content via in:file, can we utilize it?