> I wanted to find usage of a member called "io_pending".
DXR is happy to search for identifiers (id:whatever). The problem is that all the uses of io_pending are #ifdef'd out when compiling for Linux, which is the platform we use to run the indexing job for moz-central. A clue is that there's not much of a symbolic context menu when clicking on io_pending: you get offered only "Search for the substring io_pending". So, when you're searching for platform-specific things that aren't Linux, you have to fall back to text search. In addition, you have regexes at your disposal, so something using word boundaries like regexp:\bio_pending\b might serve. > By default dxr tokenizes your input, so if you put "foo bar" (without quotes) > it will give you lines that contain both foo and bar, individually. That is > sometimes helpful, but not here. Specifically, DXR finds all the lines that contain all the space-delimited terms in the query, due to long tradition. As Gijs and others point out, quotes can be used to match whole phrases. I've shopped around the idea of changing this behavior, but nobody seemed interested. If anyone feels strongly, the polls can be reopened! >> - how can I simply limit search to be performed only in a certain >> directory and it's sub-dirs? > > foo path:browser/base/content/test/ You can also click any dir name in the search results, and you'll get a context menu including "Limit search to folder" and "Exclude folder from search". Cheers, Erik _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
