cargo search: ability to search in crate names only
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C-feature-request
Command-search
S-blocked-external
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Currently cargo search produces very noisy output with a lot of irrelevant results. It would be nice to add options to control where to search: crate names only (strict), keywords, description (most relaxed).
Current situation: cargo search python gives:
https://crates.io/crates/yamlate
https://crates.io/crates/autojump
https://crates.io/crates/strfmt
Where is any "Python" word in these crates - I do not know.
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Research direction
Start with the cargo search command and its current crates.io query behavior. Define how name-only, keyword, and description modes should differ, then verify the results against the examples in the issue.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100