OpenEuphoria

Re: Please change the search system in EUforum.

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jun 06, 2005
• 455 views

Anando Banerjee wrote:
> I am not sure who controls EUforum. 

That would be me.

> With all due respect, would it be possible to please
> change the search system? Maybe facilities like "and", "not", "first post",
> "response",
> etc., as is available in other forums? Otherwise, this being the best
> documentation
> for Euphoria, it is like searching for a needle in a haystack. I am sure many
> of the
> senior members are bored with trying to explain the same things over and over
> again
> to newbies like myself just because we can't find their appropriate previous
> posts.
> For instance, just searching for "Error 461" throws up more than 8,900
> messages with
> many of them not even related to "461". It took me quite a while to find Derek
> Parnell's
> update for the RichEdit Error 461. 

If you add double-quotes:
   "Error 461"
you'll get about a dozen messages.
 
> I am sure if the Masters will it, it will be done.

I've geared the system to use scoring rather than
logical connectives, but I agree that as the number
of messages grows (now over 70000) we will need 
more precise ways of searching.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com