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I just registered on this excellent website, on which Google has so often directed me in the past.
I got a stupid issue : I have trouble searching for "all words" in the forums. I found a post saying that it's a mySQL-like syntax : keyword "AND". But, for instance, if I entered "virtualbox AND guest AND resolution" (without the double quotes), searching in the Slackware forum only, it returns for instance the thread cant-get-my-videocard..., which contains no word "virtualbox" !
I didn't find any help page for the search syntax. Does it exists ? If not, I would be great to have one.
Thanks in advance for the response,
stabul
P.S.: the thread I refered to also talks about the "Full-Text Stopwords". Does that mean that all corresponding strings listed at the mySQL website will be excluded from any search ?
It works for me at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/search.php
I input the search terms you did in the keyword search box. I also insured "Search All Open Forums" was highlighted then I clicked on "Search Now".
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AND is indeed the default, but I'm not able to reproduce what you're seeing. If I search for "virtualbox AND guest AND resolution" without the quotes in only the Slackware forum, the thread you linked to is not returned in the results.
dThanks for your answers. Here are some fresh information : I just realized that the problem occurs while I'm not logged in, i.e. while I'm a simple guest !
P.S.: jeremy, concerning the selected forums, it's in fact Slackware and its child forum Slackware Installation.
stabul
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Guests did have boolean searching disabled. If I recall this was done due to resource limits a while back. We should have the needed resources now, so I've enabled boolean across the board for all searches. Thanks for the feedback.
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You can look at the advanced search page for the variable names to user for more complicated searches. If there's enough demand, it's possible we could add a "save this search" type of link to the search results page.
Was the "save this search" link ever implemented? I do not see it. Certainly the fact that this hasn't been an issue for me for over a year shows that there isn't much demand.
OTOH, even w/ all your hints I cannot figure out how to encode these:
I referred to the source of the Advanced Search page to find the variables & their values, but I don't know if that was the right thing to do or how to construct the complete URI.
Perhaps if you would do this one, it would point the way to the method for making others.
TIA
Last edited by archtoad6; 10-21-2010 at 05:40 AM.
Reason: typo
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The "save this search" feature was never implemented. The next major code upgrade will bring an entirely new search infrastructure with it, so it's possible we'll revisit it at that time. As for more advanced searches, you can take the base URL I posted in #9 and add items from the advanced search to it from there. As an example:
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