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[PATCH 0/3] Improve 'guix search' relevance and display

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Message #22 received at 36390-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 36390-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#36390] [PATCH 0/3] Improve 'guix search' relevance and
 display
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:19:20 +0200

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> This improves ‘guix search’ in two ways:
>>
>>   1. The relevance score now excludes things that do not match *all*
>>      the regexps.  So ‘guix search go game’ returns 28 results instead
>>      of 1,245 and the first one is ‘gnugo’; ‘guix search ssh client’
>>      returns 14 results instead of 510; ‘guix search guile crypto’
>>      returns just ‘guile-gcrypt’ instead of 279 results.
>>
>>   2. ‘guix search’ and ‘guix system search’ now write at most a full
>>      screen of results.  You can pipe through a pager to view all the
>>      results.
>
> Perfect, thank you for the patches!

It seems rather non-controversial.  :-)

Pushed:

  4311cf965c ui: Add 'display-search-results' and use it.
  4593f5a654 syscalls: Add 'terminal-rows'.
  8874faaaac ui: 'relevance' considers regexps connected with a logical and.

> (I wonder why you chose to use “(cut > <> 0)” instead of “positive?” for
> checking if a value is greater than zero.)

Actually no good reasons, I wanted to amend it and then forgot.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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