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Trigrams are of three characters, not tokens. This is not the obvious search strategy for code, lacking semantic structure, though apparently it suits regex se

Trigrams are of three characters, not tokens. This is not the obvious search strategy for code, lacking semantic structure, though apparently it suits regex searchable indexes.

dmoy 8y ago
See kythe.io for the semantic bits.
crawshaw 8y ago
Trigram is defined in the dictionary as "a group of three consecutive written units such as letters, syllables, or words." Thus using the term for a triplet of tokens seems appropriate.