Re: [Moin-user] using Xapian search

2011-09-29 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:58:25 +0200 Marcel Häfner marcel.haef...@heavy.ch wrote: http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/SearchformWithoutAttachmentSearch Thanks for that idea, I hadn't thought of that. We are using 1.9.3 but I am sure a similar approach would still work. Regards, Iain.

Re: [Moin-user] using Xapian search

2011-09-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
Hello Thomas, many thanks for the reply. On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:53:27 +0200 Thomas Waldmann tw-pub...@gmx.de wrote: Also, it splits the words and puts Moin and Tips and Tricks into the index. It does not put MoinT into the index. So, an uppercase letter is an indicator that the indexer

Re: [Moin-user] using Xapian search

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Waldmann
So, an uppercase letter is an indicator that the indexer should treat this as a word (until the next uppercase letter) as if there was white space. It would seem that hyphens and underscores have a similar effect. It's not just upper/lowercase transitions. IIRC, it also tries to split off

Re: [Moin-user] using Xapian search

2011-09-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:13:33 +0200 Thomas Waldmann tw-pub...@gmx.de wrote: If you have a page called IBM Services, that would work ok. Same for IBM-Services, IBMServices is maybe a bad idea. Initially, we made extensive use of Categories. Over time the use of Categories lapsed and an informal

Re: [Moin-user] using Xapian search

2011-09-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:12:17 +0100 Iain Mac Donald moinm...@picturenow.co.uk wrote: Are you saying that in Moin2 you can directly add a PDF (or JPEG, PNG etc.) to the wiki rather than as an attachment to a page? I can't get past the idea of pages being first class citizens and attachments

[Moin-user] using Xapian search

2011-09-27 Thread Iain Mac Donald
Hello, long time MoinMoin user here who has just got around to installing Xapian for search. There are a couple of things which I find are different when using Xapian compared to the legacy search engine. The first difference involves my, perhaps unusual, navigation method. It is perhaps