today i learned how to use scope filters in intellij IDEs for one specific task - to match on all files of a particular filetype, but exclude another filter: file:*.go&&!file:*_test.go this lets me run a search on go files except for tests not the most simple description of the syntax in the documentation https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/scope-language-syntax-reference.html#examples but the examples made it clear enough i could figure it out probably will extend the use of this with some others, but especially, excluding comments from searches arbitrarily would be useful because fairly often i accidentally rename generic words that get used haphazardly in libraries i'm working from or forking, or where code is using a very generic short word that steals from using that word as a package name many people who write Go code don't really understand how to properly name things and the number of colliding package names and package names that are long or uninformative or where they stutter such as thisthing.ThisThing for packages primary types... ya know, if you write Go code and you never noticed that it's `test.T` please, go spend 30 minutes flaggelating yourself with a cat o nine with glass shards wrapped into the tails, for the good of humanity #til #intellij #goland #ide #dev