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Typing title: ci time — with the space after the colon that a sentence would have — did not search titles at all. It parsed as a bare title: with no value, showed ⚠ ignored: title: — unreadable value, and then searched ci and time as two plain words: 113 sessions, where title:ci time returns 7.

The rule

When a known operator's value is empty, the next token becomes the value — unless that token is already a search term in its own right. title: ci now reads exactly as title:ci; the test asserts the two parses are toEqual, not merely similar.

the next token is taken as the value? why
a plain word (ci) yes a bare title: meant nothing before, so this only changes queries that were already reported as errors
a quoted phrase ("two words", "is:live", "#137") always quotes are the language's mark for literal text, and title:"is:live" has always meant this
another operator (is:live) no title: is:live is two fumbled operators, not a title
a PR reference (#137, owner/repo#137, a PR URL) no it was a working search before; absorbing it would delete a term the user asked for, and silently, since any non-empty string is a legal field value

The refusals keep their ⚠ ignored: title: line, so nothing disappears without saying so, and quoting is the way to mean the literal text: title: "#137" and title:"#137" parse identically.

It applies to every operator, not just the field terms: pr: 147, has: pr, is: live, after: 7d, before: 3d, and all six scoped fields.

Small related improvement: when the taken value turns out to be unusable, the warning shows both halves — after: soon is reported as ignored: after: soon rather than as a bare after:, which named only half of what was typed.

Verification

  • Three mutations, three caught. Disabling the lookahead reddens only the three space-rule tests; dropping !parsePrRef(lower) reddens only never takes a token that is already a search term; dropping the quoted branch reddens only quotes are the escape hatch. Each assertion is attached to the behaviour it names.
  • All six scoped fields are driven from a loop, so extending SCOPED_FIELDS without extending the rule is a red test rather than a silent gap.
  • 195 tests (4 new), tsc clean.
  • The existing reports an operator whose value is unusable test passes unchanged — the refusals are what keep it true.
  • One parser, so both search paths get the fix together: the main-process full-prompt search and the renderer's local filter both call parseQuery. tokenizeQuery keeps its public string[] signature; the quoted flag rides on an internal tokenizer, so its own tests are untouched.

Review round 1 (cubic, three findings — all valid, all fixed in 2c4e355)

The PR-reference case was a real regression introduced by the first commit, and the description above is rewritten because of it: "only queries that were already errors change behaviour" was true for a plain word and false for title: #137. The table states the rule instead of that consequence. The other two were the test name overclaiming its coverage, and the quoted-phrase divergence, which turned into the escape hatch that makes the whole rule coherent. CodeRabbit reviewed the first head and generated no actionable comments.

Not in this PR

The in-app ? cheat sheet still shows only title:x. Both forms work now, and the sheet is already dense; the README carries the sentence instead. Say the word if you would rather it be on the sheet.

What to test by hand

  1. title: ci time → the same 7 sessions as title:ci time, and no ⚠ ignored line.
  2. title: "two words" → the phrase survives the space.
  3. after: 7d, is: live, pr: 154, branch: main → all behave as the no-space forms.
  4. title: is:live and title: #137 → still ⚠ ignored: title:, with the live filter / PR search applied.
  5. title: "is:live" → a title search for that literal text, no live filter.
  6. after: soon⚠ ignored: after: soon (both halves, not just after:).

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Summary by cubic

Fixes search parsing so a space after an operator's colon is part of the operator: title: ci time now parses exactly like title:ci time. Previously the space made the operator unreadable (⚠ ignored: title:) and the following word was searched as a plain term, so title: ci time matched 113 sessions where title:ci time matches 7. A bare title: meant nothing before, so only queries that were already errors change.

  • Applies to every operator (pr:, has:, is:, after:, before:, and all field terms); quoted phrases still work after the space (title: "two words").
  • The next token is never taken when it is already a search term (another operator or a PR reference), so title: is:live and title: #137 keep their existing meaning; a quoted token is always taken as a literal value.
  • When the taken value is unusable, the warning now shows both halves (ignored: after: soon) instead of a bare after:.
  • Unknown keys are untouched: error: ci stays two bare words.

Written for commit 273407a. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Search operators now accept a space before their values, such as title: ci.
    • Quoted phrases work consistently with space-separated and adjacent operator values.
    • Operators remain correctly distinguished when followed by another operator or a pull request reference.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved warnings to show the complete invalid operator expression.
  • Documentation

    • Updated search documentation with the new spacing behavior and examples.

`title: ci time` was read as a bare `title:` with no value, reported as
unreadable, and then searched as the two plain words `ci` and `time`:
113 sessions where `title:ci time` returns 7.

The space is what people type, and a bare `title:` meant nothing before,
so taking the next token as the value only changes queries that were
already being reported as errors. Applies to every operator, and a
quoted phrase still works after the space.

The one token never taken is another operator, so `title: is:live`
stays two fumbled operators rather than a title of `is:live` — which
is also what keeps the existing unreadable-value test unchanged. When
the taken value is unusable the warning now shows both halves
(`ignored: after: soon`) instead of a bare `after:`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The query parser now accepts eligible whitespace-separated operator values, including quoted literals. It preserves operators and PR references as separate terms. Tests, documentation, the changelog, and the package version cover release 1.0.91.

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Search operator value parsing

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src/session-search.ts
The tokenizer records quoted text. parseQuery consumes eligible spaced values, preserves operators and PR references, and reports unusable values with both tokens.
Parser validation
src/session-search.test.ts
Tests cover spaced values, quoted literals, all supported operators, operator boundaries, PR references, unusable values, trailing operators, and unknown keys.
Documentation and release metadata
README.md, CHANGELOG.md, package.json
The README and changelog document the behavior and exceptions. The package version is 1.0.91.

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Review round 1 (cubic), all three findings.

The space rule absorbed a following PR reference: `title: #137` became a
title of `#137` and the PR search vanished with no warning, because any
non-empty value is a legal field value. A token that is already a search
term — an operator or a PR reference — is no longer taken, so that query
does what it did before the rule existed.

Quotes now decide the other direction. `tokenizeQuery` strips the quote
marks before the lookahead could see them, so `title: "is:live"` was
refused as an operator while `title:"is:live"` worked. The tokenizer
carries whether a token was quoted, and a quoted token is always
takeable, which makes quotes the escape hatch in both spellings.

Tests: every scoped field and `before:` now exercise the space rule, so
a change to SCOPED_FIELDS cannot leave one out; plus the PR-reference
refusal and the quoted forms, asserted equal to their no-space twins.

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Review round 2 (CodeRabbit): the three lines added in round 1 were the
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