Feature Suggestion - Search gists

[fuzzyweapon]

A way to search gists in the gists toolbox window like we see for other widgets, either activated with a context sensitive CMD/Ctrl-F and/or starting to type while the index pane has focus. Something simple would be great, though I've included some baseline suggestions below which I think, if realized, will really make a search feature be viable for most use cases.

Suggestions Up For Discussion

• search gist descriptions/title (gist metadata), file names, file contents?
• search result organization - I'd suggest some solid default organization here, such as simply a paired down gists index (slight visual change to indicate and reinforce they are search results)
• search syntax/strategy support
  • default fuzzy matching - fuzzy match input that doesn't have qualifying symbols for other modes (i.e. isn't surrounded by double-quotes)

    bar -> matches on 'bar', 'foobar', 'barfoo', and 'foobarfoo'
    

  • literal matching - match input surrounded by double quotes as is

    "bar" -> matches on 'bar', but not 'foobar' or 'foobarhello'
    "foo bar" -> matches on 'foo bar', but not foo', bar', 'foobar', nor 'bar foo'
    "\nbar" -> follows match rules above and only matches on actual literal symbols '\nbar'
    

  • mixed mode - Simply support being able to mix literal and partial

    foo "bar" -> matches on 'foo', 'lolfooblah', 'foobar', 'barfoo', and 'bar' but not 'barblah'
    

  • case-sensitivity checkbox - to toggle whether you want the search input to be case-sensitive.