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?)
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]].
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?