Hi Mike. That's a very good point about the case sensitivity on the "from" and "date" directives. I'll see what I can do to fix that.
It's great to hear you are enjoying the search engine. We use Lucene for the per-list search indexes; it's certainly a high quality open-source engine. Jeff On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:56 AM, M. G. Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> wrote: > Well, I've been playing with my shiny new archive! Great stuff! <grin> > > I stumbled on a less than intuitive detail of the search syntax... > > First I tried: > > "From: M. G. Devour" > > ...and got messages in which I was quoted by others. Okay, not what I > thought I was going to get, but makes sense when you read the > instructions. <grin> > > Then I moved the quotation mark and tried: > > From:"M. G. Devour" > > ...which gave zero results. Huh? > > Finally, I tried the *correct* syntax: > > from:"M. G. Devour" > > ...which turns up all of my posts, as intended. > > Same thing is true of date: searches. I'm curious why the from: and > date: directives bother to be case sensitive? It tripped me up there > for a bit! > > Otherwise, I've gotta say, wow, this is a powerful search facility! > > It is just so great to be able to use arbitrarily short search terms. > There are so many acronyms and legitimate items in our group's jargon > that are only 2 or 3 letters long, that the 3 letter minimum of most > forum software as well as the archive that we used to have, is really > crippling sometimes. > > Have people managed to design nice front-ends for this, similar to > Google's advanced search form? Something like that would be extremely > useful on our web site. > > Thanks, guys. This is turning out very nicely. > > Be well! > > Mike D. > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org. >
