Searcher ordering problem

[isamert]

I was trying to debug why dumb-jump is not working for Haskell. What I found is this:

• By default dumb-jump uses git-grep.
• Haskell does not have any rule that supports git-grep.
• dumb-jump uses fallback search (which is just terrible for Haskell)

I also had some issues with context, Haskell context definitions seems to be not standard and it fails to find any meaningful context in any case. This was easy to solve with setting dumb-jump-ignore-context. After setting this and forcing grep implementation to be ag I was able to get some meaningful results. But I think the default behavior is far from what I call "just works", here is what I think should happen:

• dumb-jump first collects all the searchers for current language.
• dumb-jump gets the default searcher, say git-grep.
• If language supports the default searcher, it continues, if not, dumb-jump selects the searcher that language supports (if its available on the system)
• dumb-jump filters the searcher list with given context. If the context is nil, it uses all the searchers.

dumb-jump is great most of the time, but the default behavior should emphasize on the language and the tools that it supports rather than going tool-first approach. This way out of the box experience will be much better.

[jacktasia]

Thanks for opening this!

But I think the default behavior is far from what I call "just works."

Totally agree. I appreciate you pointing this situation out. I'll try to implement your idea or something similar soon.