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eliabramo

Member

From: Haifa, Israel

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 29

problem with Wiki search

There is problem in the search bar in the Wiki. I can never find the right page.
For example, I search for guide to build ssh server. I type "ssh" in the searchbar and find nothing. when i type "openssh" i find a guide called "Using SSHD and SSH". why I didn't find it on the first search?
(it is not because of the capital letters).

Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: problem with Wiki search

you can't search for terms with less than 4 letters for some obscure reason

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Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.

eliabramo

Member

From: Haifa, Israel

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 29

Re: problem with Wiki search

OK. how could I forgot it?

Pierre

Developer

From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

Website

Re: problem with Wiki search

File a Feature Request at the Bug Tracker. This issue could be easily fixed.

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neotuli

Lazy Developer

From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,204

Website

Re: problem with Wiki search

I guess I forgot to mention it in the previous thread [1], but the decision was made to keep the 3 character limit as is. Far more thought went into that not-so-arbitrary limit than I would like to go through myself (it's a mysql default, what can i say?), and mysql already eats enough processor, I'd prefer not to make it worse.

[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31582

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The suggestion box only accepts patches.

stingray

Member

From: Lima, Peru SA

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 188

Re: problem with Wiki search

This just killed my search also. I was seeing if there was any info on "xen", nope none... but wait, if I google for it I find it...

So a quick work around for the 3 character limit is to use Google...

some examples:
archlinux xen
site:wiki.archlinux.org ssh
site:wiki.archlinux.org xen

Purch

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2006-02-23

Posts: 229

Re: problem with Wiki search

Then lets add a google search box to the wiki page that has a default "site:wiki.archlinux.org" in it?

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: problem with Wiki search

*bump*

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karsten

Member

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: problem with Wiki search

agreed.  wiki-search just plain sucks