How standard search also in "aliases" fields?

#1

I locate the standard search to be this tiddler

https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fui%2FSideBarSegments%2Fsearch

but I’m not sure what to do to make the regular standard searches also comb through the aliases fields? (I started using the great aliases plugin by @mklauber )

Actually, wouldn’t that be a reasonable custom setting? I.e let the user decide which fields that standard search should scan? (Because standard search only looks in title+tags+text, right?)

#2

You can look at $:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList and other (optional, plugin provided) tiddlers tagged $:/tags/SearchResults.
Look at fields first-search-filter and second-search-filter: you can for example change first-search-filter field value to:
[!is[system]search:title,aliases<userInput>sort[title]limit[250]].

Fred

#3

Spot on! Thank you @tw-FRed !

The fact that the filter is in a dedicated field and so simple to modify (if one had the knowledge) makes me think even more there ought to be some Controlpanel setting for this. - @jeremyruston , any opinions on this?

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