We’ve enabled a code search and navigation private beta with GitHub–and the folks within the Python organization on GitHub are among the first to try it.
With the new improvements, you can expect:
- Support for code literals in when searching code within a repository. This means that searching for <- or >> should actually work!
- For projects using JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, or Go, you will also see the following:
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- Boosted relevance on declarations of methods, functions, classes, etc. Now you can get to the source of a thing, rather than having to sift through all the call sites.
- Jump-to navigation from symbols to their declarations, with hover-over highlighting for symbols which have those mappings available.
The documentation is here (https://help.github.com/hidden/searching-and-navigating-code/), and once you’ve had time to use the improvements, please provide feedback directly to the GitHub search team by taking this survey (https://www.research.net/r/CodeSearch-Navigation) or by emailing them at search-beta@github.com.