[Tracker] Suggestions for tracker-search-tool

[zer0halo <zerohalo gmail com>]

Now that I'm using Tracker more, I have some suggestions for enhancements to the tracker-search-tool, based on my experience so far. I realize the development focus is on the indexing at present, so these ideas may be more for down the line, but I figured I might as well put the thoughts down now:


1. Show total results found. (Currently this doesn't seem to be anywhere.)


2. Have a drop-down box with the following options. Multiple options could be selected:
      - Metadata only.
      - Filename/path only.  (shows results that have text in file name or path only)
      - Full text search only.
      - All results. 

(This could be an after-search filter, or a pre-search query.)


3. Help button that explains the search syntax. (ie, how do you use AND/OR, exact phrase searches, etc.)

4. Add *.rb, *.rhtml, *.rjs and *.yaml to list of files that are considered "Development". (Currently none of my Ruby files show up under Development, only when All Files is selected.)


5. A "preferences" dialog box that allows the user to modify the file extensions used for each type of file (video, audio, development, etc.) Or if that's done by MIME type rather than file extension, then allow the user to add/remove mime types.


6. Show the number of hits for each document found. Helps to narrow down the search.

7. Allow the result list to be sorted by number of hits, or alphabetically by filename, or by full path (so all files in same folder are together; that seems to be current default).

8. This may not be possible, but it would be awesome if for each search result you could right click and select "show next" and it would show the next snippet of text from the file where the search term appeared. That way you can cycle through the results within a file, without necessarily having to open the file. Again, this is for the purpose of finding the desired file from a list of results. 


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