Ok, I'll add this. It should be easy. Just a line or two...

We already have a $BOLTdefaultExclude that can be set in a config
file, but we need a $BOLTdefaultSearchType.

Also, it may be advisable to make these config options, so they can be
set in site.config.

Cheers,
Dan

P.S. Next release.



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:23 AM, DrunkenMonk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is there anyone who uses search and does not want to exclude headers,
> footers, and any eventual tops and sides 99% of the time?
>
> I've been making some fancy pages in my wiki, trying to give my
> theatre group clean, well designed pages to organise our work during
> the year, and I find that 5-10% of my code is search functions
> requiring the darn "type=-header,footer,top,side", of which there are
> currently on average two in any given group.
>
> This would not have been possible, by the way, if not for the timely
> change to the include function, which happened just before I needed to
> use it. Well done Dan! (I chain 'side' pages such that the most
> relevant table of contents is highest, and then include the parent
> side at the bottom. Works really well.)
>
> I suggest that "type=-header,footer,top,side" is made the default
> behaviour of search, or that a site configuration option for default
> values is implemented:
>
> defaultSearchType:
>
> Which can be set to empty, initially, so that newly installed wikis
> don't have 'strange' behaviour, but is easy to modify once you realise
> that you never want to return a header,footer,side or top page in a
> search, ever.
> >
>

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