more search improvements

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn
index 4c1b50fcd..67e3b85ef 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn
@@ -2,15 +2,16 @@
 [[tag type/useful]]
 
 This plugin adds full text search to ikiwiki, using the
-[xapian](http://xapian.org/) engine and its
-[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend.
+[xapian](http://xapian.org/) engine, its
+[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend,
+and the [[cpan Search::Xapian]] perl module. (The [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
+perl module will also be used, if available.)
 
-Ikiwiki will handle indexing new and changed page contents, using the
-[[cpan Search::Xapian]] perl modules. Note that it indexes page contents
-before they are preprocessed and converted to html, as this tends to
-produce less noisy search results. Also, since it only indexes page
-contents, files copied by the [[rawhtml]] plugin will not be indexed, nor
-will other types of data files.
+Ikiwiki will handle indexing new and changed page contents. Note that it
+indexes page contents before they are preprocessed and converted to html,
+as this tends to produce less noisy search results. Also, since it only
+indexes page contents, files copied by the [[rawhtml]] plugin will not be
+indexed, nor will other types of data files.
 
 There is one setting you may need to use in the config file. `omega_cgi` 
 should point to the location of the omega cgi program. The default location
diff --git a/doc/todo/search_terms.mdwn b/doc/todo/search_terms.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e3f3aa6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/todo/search_terms.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The [[plugin/search]] plugin could use xapian terms to allow some special
+searches. For example, "title:foo", or "link:somepage", or "author:foo", or
+"copyright:GPL".
+
+Reference: <http://xapian.org/docs/omega/termprefixes.html>