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having used the preview for a while, when searching across all repos, it's like the standard search box you don't have to sign up for, except occasionally less
by 0x69420 4y ago
having used the preview for a while, when searching across all repos, it's like the standard search box you don't have to sign up for, except occasionally less liable to give you 50 matches in a row on identical files across forks
it has a few Modern Webdev™ quirks, like when you ^f for something on a result page, it'll respond to your “selection” (read: ^f highlight) with a popup prompting you to try that selection as another query, which of course will pop in and out of existence as you cycle through ^f results and i could go on but ugh
the public sourcegraph instance at sourcegraph dot com is honestly more useful. pro tip: `repo:^github\.com/.*` works as a filter. unfortunately since it's not a first-class citizen of github with access to whatever internal indexing they have, it's slower, but slow and useful is better than fast and infuriating