they're going to expect the full suite of NLP treatments with all indexed content, including code. Nope. In 30 years of searching through code, I've never once

they're going to expect the full suite of NLP treatments with all indexed content, including code. Nope. In 30 years of searching through code, I've never once felt the need for that. On the other hand, almost every time I use Github search, I find the limitations of a word-oriented index get in the way (looking for partial keywords to find code relevant to an api, etc. It's not just special characters).