Search in profiles by substring matching
By lla...@fastbooking.net on May 19, 2011 11:01 (imported from Google Code)
When I search in the profile search box, the results seems to match only when my search term correspond to the beginning of a word (be it a tag, or a word in the profile name).
But it doesn't match when my search term correspond to a substring of a tag, or a substring of the profile name.
When I have a lot a hosts / tags, and that I only remember part of a host name, I cannot find the hosts (profiles) I need.
This feature would be specially useful as some of my profiles name have a specific convention (name of the datacenter, or name of the environment, in the host name / fqdn)
(Many of my profiles are named : "<username>@<fqdn or shortname of the host>", one solution would be to rename ALL the profiles to "<username> <short name> <domain> <tld>" so that search work)
Also, it would be useful that the search includes the "command" in the search terms.
Therefore I'd suggest 3 new hidden features :
- Allow search to match partially the search term with the (tag | profile name) (a substring match, not a 'beginning-of-word' match)
- Allow search to search in (tag | profile name | command) namespace
- Highligh search results : would highlight, in the list of results, the part(s) of the (tag | profile name | [command] ) that did match, just like modern web browsers do when you do a full text page search.
What do you think of it ?
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Comment 1 by geor...@google.com on May 19, 2011 18:05
You can do substring matching by using * as the first character in your search. For example, to find all tags containing xyz, you'd enter *xyz. I need to document this, though.
I like the idea of highlighting results.
Reassigned to @gnachman
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All but highlighting done in commit 2ee5504f