According to Jim Cole:
> Gilles Detillieux's bits of Tue, 12 Oct 1999 translated to:
> > At present, there is currently no way to configure htsearch to display
> > multiple excerpts per matching document, so that all the matching words
> > are highlighted in the search results. One excerpt is all you get right
> > now, but you can make it a very large one.
> >
> > Multiple excerpts would be a useful feature to add, as an option
> > selected in the configuration, if someone has the time and inclination
> > to tackle it. The function which currently handles the excerpt display
> > is Display::excerpt(), in htsearch/Display.cc. Any takers? (I know
> > there's a feature freeze right now, but there's always next release.)
>
> Hi. I have been thinking about contributing to this project for a while
> now, and this seems like a relatively painless place to start. I hacked
> out enough of the functionality last night to get a feel for what needs
> to be done. So, I guess you have a "taker" if you can tolerate yet
> another developer ;) Do you need any particular information from me?
Tolerate? Hey, the more the merrier, as far as I'm concerned. A lot of
our past contributors haven't been really active in further development
of late, so I think a few more helping hands would be a good thing.
As far as information from you, that would depend on how you'd like to
contribute. If you want write access to the CVS repository, you should
ask Geoff about this. Many contributors give their changes as patch files,
which works fine for small numbers of changes.
> Obviously I am mostly clueless about what your processes are and how
> you like to do things. Is there anything written up? Or is it more a
> matter of just feeling your way through until you figure things out?
You should probably have a look at the developer site, http://dev.htdig.org/,
to get more familiar with things. It's also a really good idea to take some
time to study the source code, to get a good feel for how the pieces fit
together. In the end, experience is the best teacher, but you have to start
somewhere.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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