On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Eugene Eric Kim wrote: (01)
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:17:09PM -0500, cdent@blueoxen.org wrote:
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> > Bloxsom would amount to some kind of recursive grep?
>
> That could be a default plugin. There are also blosxom plugins for
> hooking into Lucene and SWISH, and we could write a plugin that used
> those indices instead -- much more efficient than a recursive grep. I
> assume this is how MovableType handles its search engine as well. (02)
Nope, the MT way is to open every entry, look at its text, move
on to the next one. Which is odd, but ... ? (03)
Where I've installed this in the kb environment (where there is a
big arts and irclogger install) I was _very_ surprised how fast
the results show up for the file based searches. (04)
It doesn't do good searches though: it's just /$query/is which is
limited to say the least, but there's nothing about the format of
the modules that requires it to be like that. (05)
> This is a very good hack. The backlink capability is really
> important, and I've been struggling with the best way to enable that
> with the Wiki/blog integration. I was leaning towards an independent
> backlink engine, but this is a better initial solution. (06)
I've been having fun clicking on the titles on the wikis where I
have it. Makes the universe bigger. Especially if you do it on
the wiki names of people (like you or me): it gets the nearby
wiki stuff, then the blog postings, then the arts things, and
then the top ten google things. (07)
I still believe that proper backlinks are managed best at
creation time rather than by doing searches. A search for a
string is not the same thing as finding a backlink. It just so
happens that it does that in some cases. (08)
As I creep towards a universe where all my text is wikitext
processed by PurpleWiki::Sequence (or something that talks to the
same sequence) I have to keep reminding myself to keep things
open (which is sort of ironic as straight text seems awfully open
to me). (09)
> I'll whip up a blosxom plugin when I'm back in town this weekend. (010)
Very cool. I hope it works out easily. (011)
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