ninlabs research

Display of search results in Visual Studio has been remarkably primitive despite numerous improvements in other areas. Eclipse, in contrast has added some compelling features such as clustered results grouped by packages and classes and the ability to prune results. Now, simplicity has its place, sometimes the simple list of text makes it easier to scan.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

Viewing source code differences is something programmers do almost daily. Yet, how we view diffs is little changed since some of the first tools came out in the 1970s. Sure, techincal improvements have been made (accounting for whitespace, word-level diffs, providing more context, structural diffs).

Some quick code I cooked up to extract text from a collection of word/pdf:

If you want to log searches for code or perhaps wanted to provide a better UI for search results, then you need to listen to search events with a Visual Studio Addin/VSPackage.

When recording EMG signals, you want to be able to segment and associate those signals with certain events, e.g., the presentation of a stimuli.  Because one of my goals is to recognize subvocalized words, it is even more important to get tight segmentation.