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by esprehn 1653 days ago
It would be great if this used the same filter format as sourcegraph and other internal code search tools. ex. -file:.html is enough to filter away files ending in html in the main search box.

Having to use dropdowns and multiple input fields is more cumbersome than the filter language of repo:, file:, lang: etc.

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Here are the details of that syntax: https://cs.github.com/about/syntax