• @zatanas@lemm.ee
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    362 years ago

    Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.

      • @gosling@lemmy.world
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        842 years ago

        Hyphen (-) means you don’t want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.

        Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.

        • @towerful@programming.dev
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          122 years ago

          Yeh, suddenly you need to know what the language calls the operator within the context you want to use it.
          At which point, you probably don’t need to Google the symbol!

        • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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          32 years ago

          It was a really dumb move but you can can still get the same effect by putting a word in quotation marks.

          • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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            12 years ago

            UI-wise, though, it’s toxic, and therefore slower and more stressing. It’s something that can be fixed, and ergo essentially a bug. ;-)