[ic] Put up a search

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Oct 16 11:52:00 2002


Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> At 12:31 PM 10/16/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> > > > After losing patience with both htdig and Google (through no
> > > real fault of
> > > > either of theirs) I put up a mail list search which should be more
> > > > up-to-date. You should find options for "Experimental SWISH Search"
> > > > to see them.
> > >
> > > Looks pretty good. Results show up fast, although Swish++ cannot beat
> > > Heins++ :-) in its speed to get things done.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I will probably add this into IC, because it is a Vend::Swish and
> > > > works just like the normal [loop search=""] and [search-list]
> > > > stuff. So it needs testing... 8-)
> > >
> > > Please add this to IC. I already have nice applications in mind for that,
> > > but don't want to cope with non-free software like Glimpse.
> >
> >Gets my vote too - I too have been thinking about this type of function
> >recently for 'static' interchange pages which require a search function.
> >
> >Jonathan
> >Webmaint.
> 
> Seems to work well - but I did like the way that both HtDig and Google show 
> the segments of the text for each item in the results list which contain 
> the matching words/phrases (with the ability to toggle this feature 
> on/off). I find that helps me visually eliminate many of the false posiives 
> quickly. Does Swish have such a function built-in?
> 

No, that means you have to parse and rewrite the results page. All
we are doing is linking.

You could do that with IC if you wanted, but it would mean reading the
file, finding the terms, and highlighting them. I did just that with
Glimpse and the documentation search, several years ago.

In other words, it is a result page function or probably better
a UserTag that processes the file and delivers it.

By the way, if you are searching now and not getting results it
is because I hosed the index trying to do something.

-- 
Mike Heins
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