fancy search

[feldman4]

It would be great to have something like http://klaftertief.github.io/elm-search/ available for the current project and dependencies.

[halohalospecial]

Looks cool! What are your use cases for this?

[feldman4]

I'm waist-deep fixing a pipeline with the stellar atom-elmjutsu plugin and I can't quite remember the name of my own function : OneType -> ToAnother.

For library functions I just go to the website.

[halohalospecial]

Maybe we can replace Go To Symbol with this. We can search for either the symbol name or the type.

(Just imagine types and other info are also displayed.)

I hope we can reuse code from https://github.com/klaftertief/elm-search :smile: cc: @klaftertief

Also for reference: https://wiki.haskell.org/Hoogle Check out the "1.1 Searches" section.

[klaftertief]

Thanks for pinging me. The elm-search is written in Elm and client-side only at the moment. It searches only published packages, though it can search local modules as well, given there is a proper index. The index is a combined list of documentation.json files. The search might not do everything you need at the moment, e.g. one can not prefix a function with a module name or search in types or type aliases. But this is quite easy to add... I have some plans to add some kind of server side search and to publish a standalone type-distance package that could be useful for editor integrations. I'm on parental leave a the moment, so my focus is a little bit shifted at the moment :-) So please keep me updated should you think about integrating some code as not all my pans and new code is published. I'll try to organise things then...

[halohalospecial]

@klaftertief Thank you for replying! Maybe it's best to wait on your progress. +1 on both the standalone Elm package and server side search! No need to hurry :smile:

[halohalospecial]

@feldman4, you might find this useful:

(Not as sophisticated as elm-search though because it's just using regex on the type signature :smile_cat:)