From ce826411b20f94a6ff95b87574b355f897547840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:38:40 -0400 Subject: more search improvements --- doc/plugins/search.mdwn | 17 +++++++++-------- doc/todo/search_terms.mdwn | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100644 doc/todo/search_terms.mdwn (limited to 'doc') 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: -- cgit v1.2.3