[Pmwiki-users] New Feature Idea

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:08:03AM +1100, Nathan Jones wrote:
> Stevem Leite wrote:
> >Here's how it would work:  You have to tell the search engine that the
> >search is not a search, and that it should be treated as a jump directly
> >to that page (if it exists).  To do this I suggest something like a
> >preceeeding "!" character in front of the search query. 
> 
> Nice idea. Rather than expect the user to use a particular syntax, I
> think it would be better to use radio buttons and get the serch-or-jump
> script to decide what to do by which button is selected. Eg:
> 
> (*) Search, or ( ) Jump to page: [       ]

One could also have the search box treat the text as a free link, and
jump to the corresponding page if it exists.  If such a page doesn't
exist, then just treat it as a normal search query.

Pm