I've been feeling a bit sick the last few days and haven't had any spare time outside of regular Seaside work to play with other things. I'm still not feeling that great, but today isn't a work day - so I worked a little bit on Searchlight.

I've been playing with Quicksilver lately, a particularly wild searchamethingy for MacOSX. Along the lines of Spotlight, except that it has a plugin framework for what you can find and what you can do once you've found something.

I think I like this idea - what you can search for is already pluggable in Searchlight - just make a subclass SearchImage and implement #thingsDo: , #search: and #name and it'll do the rest for you. I'm considering making actions a plugin framework too using pragmas.

Latest version: Searchlight v93

New features:

• Don't say "No Results" while we're still searching
• Refactored the Implementors/Senders code to actual use a Search instead of hacking it
• You can now find methods that call a primitive just by typing the primitive number in
• While a search is taking place but we don't have enough results to give you a running count, we now display "Searching" with an animated "..."
• When we're using Searchlight inside the Refactoring Browser's find toolbar option, auto-browse when we have only one result at the end of the search. Auto-close when we click a browsable item.

Still on the todo list:

• Keyboard Support
• Align the icons to the text correctly
• Integrate Holger's "Snippits" view
• Modify environment to remove other 'entry points'
• Right click menu options:
  • Fix the existing right click options not to crash
  • Right click on class to find references
  • Right click on variable to find references (getters/setters too)
  • Right click on parcels to load