Announce: Wiki full-text search

2011-11-18 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, the PicoLisp Wiki at http://home.picolisp.com now has a search field. With that, you can do a full-text search through all documents. The search is case-insensitive (more specifically, it uses 'fold' from http://software-lab.de/doc/refF.html#fold), and does a logical AND with all input wo

Re: Announce: Wiki full-text search

2011-11-18 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, Very nice! I welcome that search function. When I tried it, I found an interesting article I hadn't seen before: "Need for Speed". And I spotted a small typo: "The are, however, not" should probably be "They are ...". I leave it to you to correct it, as I don't want to "steal" your articl

Re: Announce: Wiki full-text search

2011-11-18 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi again, When I search for a short word like "the", I get no search results. I guess there are too many matches to be of interest. Maybe a text like "more than xxx matches" could be shown instead? /Jon > Hi all, > > the PicoLisp Wiki at http://home.picolisp.com now has a search field. > > With

Re: Announce: Wiki full-text search

2011-11-18 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, > When I tried it, I found an interesting article I hadn't seen before: > "Need for Speed". And I spotted a small typo: "The are, however, not" > should probably be "They are ...". I leave it to you to correct it, as I > don't want to "steal" your article. ;-) Thanks! I fixed it. No reas

Re: Announce: Wiki full-text search

2011-11-18 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, > When I search for a short word like "the", I get no search results. I The Wiki puts only words which have 4 characters or more (after folding) into the index, to avoid too much noise. > guess there are too many matches to be of interest. Maybe a text like > "more than xxx matches" cou