[pmwiki-users] searchbox for exclusive name searches

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:40:24PM -0500, sti at pooq.com wrote:
> 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.

This already exists -- just surround the text you want to
search for in quotes.

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