Posted by Dr. Bob on July 1, 2002, at 9:28:36
In reply to Search Function Ideas, posted by jane d on June 28, 2002, at 18:03:58
> Here are a few ways I think would make the search easier to use... These have the advantage of not requiring any major change to the existing search - ie minimal work.
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> The name of the poster displayed with the hits...
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> It would also be nice if there was some way to know what thread the results came from...It might have been minimal if that information were extracted after each search, but it's cleaner -- and lets you use them as search criteria, which, as I said, is something I've been wanting to do for a long time:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20010315/msgs/1011.html
-- just to build it in, so I buckled down and did it. So now you can search for, for example:
thread:101605 not name:beer
Let me know if there are any bugs in it, it would be great to be able to delete something from my to-do list! :-)
Bob
poster:Dr. Bob
thread:5879
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020627/msgs/5905.html