[Pmwiki-users] Re: Search results that point to tag instead of page

[Ted Stern]

On 4 May 2004 at 14:46 PDT, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:34:05PM -0700, Ted Stern wrote:
>> I have a site that has lots of tags and entries scattered across a lot of
>> pages.
>> [...]
>> I'd like to show the text immediately after the found-tag in the search
>> results.
>
> I've thought about adding this sort of enhancement but haven't come up with
> a good way to do it -- in particular, deciding what portion of text to
> excerpt and eliminating markup from the excerpted text has been a bit of a
> challenge (although my plans for 0.7 would make this sort of thing easier,
> but 0.7 is a ways off yet).

Basically, the idea would be that a page could have a number of threads on it.
Somebody starts a thread and others add to it.  Sort of like a blog, actually.

What one wants for this is 

- a simplified edit form to add a comment to the thread, as you mentioned
  earlier today, plus

- Show all most recently changed threads.

Probably the most natural format for displaying recently modified threads
would be something like

    * "X characters of text at start of thread ..." (Y comments total)
      had new comment
      "X characters at beginning of latest comment ..." \
      on <date>.
    
The first quote excerpt would be a link to the start of the thread, the second
quote excerpt would be a link to the latest comment.

>
>> It might also be nice to have the search results sorted by date so that one
>> could see what questions had been updated most recently.
>
> I'm looking into adding a sort-by-modification-date to search, but it's a
> bit lower priority than some of the other developments on the table.
>
> Pm


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