Ask HN: Better GitHub issue/comment search

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7 years ago

I'm having a pretty terrible experience using Github for a project with many comments per issue (30-150). The problem is with searching through issue comments:

1. The issue search doesn't display snippets of comments

2. The global search https://github.com/search displays only a single snippet per issue

3. Because of 1., I have to open the found issues one by one. But before I can "CTRL+F" I must click "Load more..." several times to ensure I'm searching through all the comments. Even finding and clicking all the "Load more..." links is challenging since they are displayed in various places and sometimes there's more than one such link.

Just disabling the "Load more..." links (ensuring all comments are loaded) would be a big help for me. Alternatively, I could use a 3rd-party Github client with a better search.

Anyone knows about something that could help?