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Fifth Issue - searching

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Eduardo Gutentag
Date
2007-09-11T23:02:00+00:00
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Fifth Issue - searching
The way searching works is somewhat counterintuitive (to me) and
not very usefully in some contexts.

I would expect that if I'm somewhere down a tree, and I want to
find something, it would be searched from that branch down,
not from the very top of the tree...

For instance, if I'm all the way down in docbook/sgml/4.3 and
I want to see if there are any html files down there, and I
enter "html" in File Name Search, I would expect the system
to return only those files that contain the string 'html'
from there on down. Instead, I get 67 pagefuls of all the html
files (and directories called html) in the whole library.

Perhaps the search can be refined in some manner? This is very
counterintuitive, and I can only imagine the confusion it will
cause when searching wsrm and getting ws-rx/wsrm ;-)

(IT people, ask Robin or Mary to explain to you what this
means...)

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Eduardo Gutentag
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