Is there any way to exclude certain directories when searching a particular github project?
In a large project on Github like nodejs, I often want to search the source code to find where in the project something is defined. A challenge I regularly run into is that the project itself contains hundreds of files related to module tests and these test directories clog up the search results when I'm trying to find something in the actual source, not in the testing code. So, instead of getting 5 pages of results to look through, I might get 50 pages of results, rendering the search somewhat useless.
In the nodejs project, I'd like to search without including the top level "test" directory.
To search in one particular directory you can use:
searchterm path:/lib
And to ignore a directory you can use:
searchterm -path:/test
As mentioned in your comment, the official documentation is here. An answer on how to ignore stuff can be found here.
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I need to write a plugin that needs to create table in database and some setting from installation form. I can easily create form but I have difficulty to run the script after installation to read options and create table. Is it possible at all to run such simple script or maybe you need to create everything like for example models, vehicles and so on?
I would appreciate if anyone could give me directions how to do it. Modx documentation is not clear about this and https://github.com/splittingred/Doodles/tree/production sample repo contains multiple elements I'm not familiar with and I believe don't need at all
Typically you'd use a resolver to run code after the install.
While in the question comments the setup options are discussed, the package attributes there are actually executed to generate the setup options form, not to process the results.
The docs are a tad dated (mostly the screenshots), but Creating a 3rd party build script explains the different parts of a build script, and what they're for, with a fair bit of examples.
The piece you're looking for is this:
$vehicle->resolve('php',array(
'source' => $sources['resolvers'] . 'setupoptions.resolver.php',
));
You'll need to have a $vehicle (perhaps from a category or other object you're adding to the build) and the file in the provided location. Inside the resolver file you can use $object->xpdo as an instance of the modX class to do your thing.
I use npm as my build tool, by populating the scripts field with various commands for the tasks I need. I’m satisfied with the setup, except for one small detail: when building for production, I’d like for references to CSS files in <link> tags and references to JS files in <script> tags to be updated for cache busting (i.e. to be modified by appending ?random_string to the file names, or similar).
I’m using jade, in case there’s a way to do it that way that I missed.
I don’t mind if the solution busts every file, even if they weren’t changed since the last build. What I care is that it does not require me to add complex code to the website itself (like a function with this as its sole purpose); it should preferably be an external command.
So far, I haven’t been able to find an acceptable solution. I’m almost about to resort to a regex, but would really rather have a more robust solution.
Since Jade allows executing any piece of Javascript code you can append a datestring at the end of your URL as a query string which is the standard way of invalidating cached scripts:
script(src="/app.js?#{Date.now()}")
I spent the last day setting up docpad as a blogging engine, starting from https://github.com/balupton/website
After getting everything working and looking the way I like it I came to one last issue -
In the page showing all blog posts I output document.contentRenderedWithoutLayouts for each document in #documents.
I have to be ready to handle a reasonably big blog
This means I need to do pagination.
What seems like the best way to do that?
I was thinking having posts in subfolders inside of blog, but then I have to iterate folders
assume each folder is a page paginate to next page
need to also sort so that the folder with the newest posts is the first, the folder with the next latest is rendered as page 2
Perhaps your best bet is the Paged Plugin, it will automatically split a specified document into multiple documents, and inject them into the database. Does that work for you?
How can I search for code fragments on github.com? When I search for MSG_PREPARE in the repository ErikZalm/Marlin github shows up nothing.
I'm using the repository code search syntax described on https://github.com/search with
repo:ErikZalm/Marlin MSG_PREPARE
No results, but MSG_PREPARE can be found inside this repository here. Am I missing something? Is there no code search on github.com?
At the time of writing this answer, compared to time this question was asked i.e. about 8 years ago, github has come a good way, though still not to the length which you are looking at.
GitHub code searches are limited on the following rules: https://docs.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-on-github/searching-code . Quoting the same:
Code in forks is only searchable if the fork has more stars than the parent repository.
Forks with fewer stars than the parent repository are not indexed for code search.
To include forks with more stars than their parent in the search results, you will need to add fork:true or fork:only to your query.
For more information, see "Searching in forks."
So we can search within the fork using the fork:true option, though as expected, since the repo ErikZalm/Marlin is low on star count as compared to parent MarlinFirmware/Marlin, the code in the fork is still not indexed. Hence the advance search shows no good except a match to the repo.
Though, if you perform the same search on the parent, it would show the matches on the code. Here are the matches for MSG_PREPARE in the parent repo MarlinFirmware/Marlin
Fortunately, one company which I know working on this domain is SourceGraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com/
Hence, you can easily search what you intended with SourceGraph:
Here are the matches for MSG_PREPARE in the ErikZalm/Marlin using SourceGraph Cloud
Update July 2013: "Preview the new Search API"
The GitHub search API on code now supports fragments, through text-match metadata.
Some API consumers will want to highlight the matching search terms when displaying search results. The API offers additional metadata to support this use case. To get this metadata in your search results, specify the text-match media type in your Accept header. For example, via curl, the above query would look like this:
curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview.text-match+json' \
https://api.github.com/search/code?q=octokit+in:file+extension:gemspec+-repo:octokit/octokit.rb&sort=indexed
This produces the same JSON payload as above, with an extra key called text_matches, an array of objects. These objects provide information such as the position of your search terms within the text, as well as the property that included the search term.
Original answer (November 2012)
I don't think there is anything that you would have missed.
If you search for SdFile, you would find results in .pde file, but none in cpp files like in this SdFile.cpp file.
The search was introduced 4 years ago (November 2008), but, as mentioned in "Search a github repository for the file defining a given function", GitHub repository code is simply not fully indexed.
At the moment when you go to select an image inside an entry using the EE default file manager, the default view is 'show files as a list'.
Is there a way to show the thumbnail view as the default?
At this point I would be happy with a core hack.
I don't usually use the file manager for sites (much prefer Assets) but this client had a tight budget
I've wondered about doing this in the past as well - turns out it's pretty simple. Open up ee_filebrowser.js and search for the first instance of a("#dir_choice").val(). Immediately after that add this:
; a("#view_type").val('thumb').change();
Make sure you include the leading ;.
I've only tested this in Safari but I can't see why it wouldn't work everywhere. Incidentally, JS beautifier makes this sort of thing infinitely easier.
I don't recommend hacking core for any reason and I suggest it should be avoided at all cost.
With that said, I will provide what I've found out just the same.
Looks like the following files, in EE 2.5.3, are what you'd want to edit:
/themes/javascript/compressed/jquery/plugins/ee_filebrowser.js
/system/expressionengine/libraries/File_field.php
I found these doing a file search in my text editor for view_type which was from the id of that dropdown. The javascript is minified so you'd probably want to un-minify it and then rewrite the part which handles the switch. I'm not the best JS/jQuery person out there, and un-minified js makes it a bit harder too so, I won't offer any more than what I've found so far.
Consider pulling out the parts parts from the two files if you aren't great with js and maybe start a new post tagged accordingly.
Also note: there might be more to this than just those two files so consider this answer a start and nothing more.