Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-21 Thread M. G. Devour
> I've made two fixes to the search engine: > - prevented duplicates from appearing in the results > - case-insensitivity on our special field names in searches (date, > from, > subject, message) > > That tidies things up nicely. > > Jeff I'll say, Jeff! Yep, the dupes are gone. Interesti

Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Marshall
I've made two fixes to the search engine: - prevented duplicates from appearing in the results - case-insensitivity on our special field names in searches (date, from, subject, message) That tidies things up nicely. Jeff On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:57 PM, M. G. Devour wrote: > Jeff, > > Th

Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-19 Thread M. G. Devour
Jeff, Thanks for the overview. I'm going to be working on a new web site for my group, so I may attempt something like that. Mike D. > An "advanced search" form would basically have a bunch of fields like > "subject" and "date" and "from" then string them together into a query > syntax describ

Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-18 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
An "advanced search" form would basically have a bunch of fields like "subject" and "date" and "from" then string them together into a query syntax described below. Then redirect that query to the standard search URL. Implementation would most likely be in PHP. Hard part isn't the programming, it i

Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-18 Thread Jeff Marshall
Yes, looks like there is a problem where we are displaying double search results. We'll look at it this week and fix that right up. MHonArc is all written in Perl. Lucene is built on Java, but we use it via a Python wrapper. The Mail Archive's wrapping layers and sorting code is written mostly

Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-16 Thread M. G. Devour
> 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. Thank you, Jeff. I figure that while it's all fresh for me, the things I stumble on have the best chance of helping future users. Once I'm used to it all I'

Re: Search syntax...

2010-02-16 Thread Jeff Marshall
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 O