Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi all, On Thu, 18 May 2000, Randy Kobes wrote: The :: are stripped on the fly, since these cannot be used in index, so when you look for Foo::Bar you are actually looking for 'Foo Bar'. That's a limitation of swish-e - you can configure it to index characters like $, !, ... as part of

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Randy Kobes wrote: Another thing that was configured in is that words have to be at least 3 characters long, which seems reasonable, and also there's some stopwords that don't get indexed, as they're too common. This list of stopwords is built by hand - so far it only

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Randy Kobes wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: looks good... one minor issue with the stickyness of the next search feature: type "lexical file handles" in your original search. the "es" at the end

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ged Haywood wrote: Hi all, On Thu, 18 May 2000, Randy Kobes wrote: The :: are stripped on the fly, since these cannot be used in index, so when you look for Foo::Bar you are actually looking for 'Foo Bar'. That's a limitation of swish-e - you can configure

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2000, Randy Kobes wrote: Another thing that was configured in is that words have to be at least 3 characters long, which seems reasonable, and also there's some stopwords that don't get indexed, as they're too common. This list

RE: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Gerald Richter
That would be nice to see. I'm afraid I'll continue on working on guide. So if there anyone with a few free minutes on his hands, he/she might like to contribute something back to community ;) Ideally, when we complete the tuning of the search engine, we will be able to have the whole

RE: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Stas Bekman
That would be nice to see. I'm afraid I'll continue on working on guide. So if there anyone with a few free minutes on his hands, he/she might like to contribute something back to community ;) Ideally, when we complete the tuning of the search engine, we will be able to have the whole

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread raptor
hi, very interesting. Search for : "statinc" returns nothing and the box get filled with "tatinc" instead "statinc" ?!?!:") this under KDE viewer, now will try netscape ...!!

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 19 May 2000, raptor wrote: hi, very interesting. Search for : "statinc" returns nothing and the box get filled with "tatinc" instead "statinc" ?!?!:") this under KDE viewer, now will try netscape ...!! it's not the client -- it's a bug. This happened after Randy has made

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-19 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2000, raptor wrote: hi, very interesting. Search for : "statinc" returns nothing and the box get filled with "tatinc" instead "statinc" ?!?!:") this under KDE viewer, now will try netscape ...!! it's not the client --

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: Ok, We have a preview ready for you. Randy Kobes worked hard to prepare this one. So your comments are very welcome. If you like it we'll put this into production. Please keep either the list CC'ed or if you reply to me in person, make sure you

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: Ok, We have a preview ready for you. Randy Kobes worked hard to prepare this one. So your comments are very welcome. If you like it we'll put this into production. Please keep either the list CC'ed or if you reply to me in person, make sure you

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: Looks cool, except can we take the guide splitting back 1 level? It seems to be split on =head2's, and should be split (IMO) on =head1's. The reason for splitting on any =head level lies in fact that there are huge sections under =head1 which have

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: One more point... The indexer or the searcher (or both) has a broken tokenizer for anything involving perl. Try searching for Apache::Constants, for example. That's right. It's broken :( After searching

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, We have a preview ready for you. Randy Kobes worked hard to prepare this one. So your comments are very welcome. If you like it we'll put this into production. Please keep either the list CC'ed or if you reply to me in person, make sure you

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Randy Kobes
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote: Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, We have a preview ready for you. Randy Kobes worked hard to prepare this one. So your comments are very welcome. If you like it we'll put this into production. Please keep either the list CC'ed or if