[pmwiki-users] Idea: Opera-like address field on the wiki page

chr at home.se chr at home.se
Wed Feb 2 16:00:53 CST 2005


Today there's usually a search field (top right corner at pmwiki.org) 
where the user can enter search terms. How about making this field a bit 
more functional?

In Opera you can use the address bar for both entering URIs and doing 
searches. Typing "pmwiki.org" will direct you to http://pmwiki.org, 
whereas typing "g pmwiki.org" will do a Google search for "pmwiki.org".

So maybe we could do something similar with the search field? The exact 
analog with Opera would be that the search field is actually converted to 
an address field, i.e. if you enter "Main/Home page", you will be directed 
to the page "Main/HomePage". In order to search, you'd have to write 
something such as "s home page" (which would search for "home page").

Alternatively, we could let the default of the field be to search, so 
simply writing "home page" does a search as before, but if you instead 
type: "a Main/home page", you're directed to Main/HomePage. As a second 
example, entering "a other page" would direct you to {$Group}/OtherPage.

Does this make sense? Is it too advanced for normal users?

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr





More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list