On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
...
To get Search instead of Go, do what Magnus Manske suggested a few days
ago:
just type your search query, then hit the cursor up key to select
the last point in the dropdown box, which is the good ol' search
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:37 PM, quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com wrote:
p.s. on-wiki feedback about search seems to be coagulating at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_experience_feedback/search_box
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/May_2010_skin_change
The link to Special:Search is the magnifying glass icon next to (or
in) the search box.
To get Search instead of Go, do what Magnus Manske suggested a few days ago:
just type your search query, then hit the cursor up key to select
the last point in the dropdown box, which is the good ol' search
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
The link to Special:Search is the magnifying glass icon next to (or
in) the search box.
To get Search instead of Go, do what Magnus
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
snip
But pressing the down button does nothing any more. *sigh*
Yeah, they replaces AB with CD, then silently removed D. Be
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
The link to Special:Search is the magnifying glass
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe if the Go page had a Not the result you wanted?
Click here to search by text prompt at the top?
That would work as well. I also find throwing a random extra term into
the search helps focus it and takes you to the search
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
The down arrow still works for me.
Whoops. I meant clicking the *up* arrow no longer works for me.
In my original post (which Magnus replied to) I had mentioned the down
arrow when I meant the up arrow.
You can't even
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure changing the default from Go! to text
search is the answer, though - and adding another button would be
confusing. Maybe if the Go page had a Not the result you wanted?
Click here to search by text prompt at the top?
