[pmwiki-users] search not working

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:22:44PM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-12-31  11:58 AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> >Comments?
> 
> I don't really understand the subtleties of "search", but as a user, 
> I expect a search box on a page to search the entire site and to take 
> me to a search results page.

The problem with this for many users is that the search results page
lives in a different group (Site) from the group where the search
began, and so gets displayed with different decorations and sidebars,
which is equally or more disturbing.

> The current (pmwiki-2.0.12) behavior is that I am sent to a page that 
> has the same name as the page where I started the search but not the 
> same content - which I find profoundly disturbing.

Perhaps the solution is to have Site.Search suppress the display of
the page name, possibly substituting it with its own.  Or even just
adding (:title Search:) to Site.Search might get things to look
more like you expect.

> PS: Happy New Year to those on the other side of the date line!

Happy New Year to all!  I don't know what 2006 will bring for PmWiki,
but I think we can safely say that 2005 saw incredible growth in 
PmWiki's capabilities -- much more than I would have envisioned 
at the beginning of the year.

Pm