[pmwiki-users] searchbox for exclusive name searches

[sti at pooq.com]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:23:56PM +0000, Hans wrote:
>> Can a searchbox be configured that any value entered will
>> automatically be used as name= parameter? so one does not need to
>> enter name=query
> 
> Not yet.  There's been some discussion in the past of
> adding a feature to searches/pagelist where one could
> specify how the terms would be used (default would be
> text search, but one could instead indicate that terms
> would be applied to pagenames or something similar).

While its being discussed, I've often wanted a feature whereby whatever is
entered into a search box by a user is taken literally. So that if one were to
enter 'group=foo', it would search for that literal text, rather than
restricting the search to the foo group.