Praise + suggestion of searching source code – Userscripts.org <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/script_icon.png" type="image/x-icon" /> <link href="http://static.userscripts.org/stylesheets/display.css?1227340079" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/prototype.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/effects.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/lowpro.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/application.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="/topics/124.rss" rel="alternate" title="Subscribe to 'Praise + suggestion of searching source code'" type="application/rss+xml" /> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <ul id="mainmenu"> <li><a href="/articles" rel="nofollow">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="/scripts" rel="nofollow">Scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/forums" rel="nofollow">Forums</a></li> <li><a href="/users" rel="nofollow">People</a></li> <li><a href="/signup" rel="nofollow">Signup</a></li> <li><a href="/login" rel="nofollow">Login</a></li> </ul> <h1><a href="/" title="Userscripts.org"><img alt="Userscripts.org" src="http://static.userscripts.org/images/userscripts.org.png?1227340079" /></a></h1> </div> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> <div class="crumbs"> <a href="/forums">Forums</a> <span class="arrow">→</span> <a href="/forums/3">Userscripts.org discussion</a> <span class="arrow">→</span> </div> <h1 id="topic-title"> Praise + suggestion of searching source code </h1> <p class="subtitle"> <a href="/topics/124.rss"><img alt="Subscribe to Praise + suggestion of searching source code" height="14" src="http://static.userscripts.org/images/feed-icon.png?1227340079" width="14" /></a> 4 posts, 3 voices </p> <a name="posts-500" id="posts-500"> </a> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="posts wide"> <tr class="post hentry " id="500-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-500" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-03-13T23:58:59-05:00"> Mar 13, 2007 11:58pm </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fd22759b3bf84fefd9dbc85890a43b77&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/6145" class="admin" rel="nofollow">David Eason</a></span> <span class="role"> Scriptwright </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-500">  <p>I very much like the site redesign, it is very clean and the consistency between script pages and forum pages is unique. I am glad you were able to bring back the remote script link option, in fact <a href="http://addons.mozilla.org">http://addons.mozilla.org</a> probably wishes it had thought of that, it would have kept the site from hosting mostly obsolete versions of Firefox addons. (By the way, why host the scripts at all, hosting isn't free! But back to the topic of my suggestion.)</p> <p>It would be great to be able to search the actual source code of the script. For example to search for "GM_xmlhttprequest iframe" or some such to find examples.</p> </td> </tr> <tr class="spacer"> <td colspan="2"> <a name="posts-501" id="posts-501"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr class="post hentry " id="501-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-501" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-03-14T03:14:27-05:00"> Mar 14, 2007 3:14am </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=4a551074ddba4460f95d011c47190d0e&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/452" rel="nofollow">Henrik N</a></span> <span class="role"> Admin </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-501">  <p>Thanks!</p> <p>I think the remote script stuff is actually a bit broken. You can input a remote URL, but the install link points to the local script and there is no link to the remote script, just an indication that there is one. There was code written for this, can't quite recall why it was only pushed to the live site in part. Will inquire.</p> <p>Being able to search the actual code would be pretty cool. Perhaps we should leverage Google Code Search - but it seems they <a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch/addcode">want to index code in an archive or repository</a>. It has been suggested that we should use a Subversion back-end for storing/versioning/updating (in addition to using the site forms) scripts – if we do that, we could point Google Code Search to the repository.</p> <p>It's certainly not impossible even without Subversion/Google Code Search. Seems <a href="http://userscripts.devjavu.com/">the tracker</a> is currently down, but will add a ticket when it's back up.</p> </td> </tr> <tr class="spacer"> <td colspan="2"> <a name="posts-507" id="posts-507"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr class="post hentry " id="507-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-507" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-03-14T09:11:19-05:00"> Mar 14, 2007 9:11am </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=db2af2c0fec84c164fd179790fdee227&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/167" rel="nofollow">Arvid</a></span> <span class="role"> Scriptwright </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-507">  <p>Not all scripts here are free for us to do what we want with. I mean, not all authors put GPL on their scripts.</p> </td> </tr> <tr class="spacer"> <td colspan="2"> <a name="posts-509" id="posts-509"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr class="post hentry " id="509-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-509" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-03-14T12:38:24-05:00"> Mar 14, 2007 12:38pm </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=4a551074ddba4460f95d011c47190d0e&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/452" rel="nofollow">Henrik N</a></span> <span class="role"> Admin </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-509">  <p>Sure, but searching doesn't imply it's free to use – just as regular Google isn't limited to GPL texts. 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