Search for a phrase

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Hello,

I created two tiddlers:

  1. with Phrase - content: This is a test.
  2. without Phrase - content: This is a good idea, to test it.
    phrase.json (370 Bytes)

If I search for “This is a test”, both tiddlers are listed.
It would be very nice to have a checkbox etc. to activate search term with exact match at that level - like Context plugin does. It also should be listed on top position of results.

@telmiger: could that be an option in your plugin “Simple Search”?

Thanks
Stefan

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There are some discussions here at Talk, that discuss how we could improve the search behaviour. But there are no solutions yet.

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Perhaps the better option would be if we introduce to the standard search the ability to force a phrase by simply quoting it “This is a test” which would then make use of the search operators “literal” parameter
eg: {{{ [all[tiddlers]search::literal[This is a test]] -[<currentTiddler>] }}}.

The out of the box way to extend search is to use Customising search results

  • I built this for you, place you This is a Test in the sidebar search and click the down arrow, then the Search as Phrase tab.
  • In this case you don’t wrap it in quotes, the whole search is the literal string.

Custom Search as Phrase.json (426 Bytes)

This is so easy to do I made more to use with Projectify.

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@TW_Tones - literal search was a good hint - thanks.

I was able to implement it also in “Simple Search” Plugin:

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Interesting, could you send me some hints or a link so I can see how you did that?

Cheers, Thomas

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I imagine he used a version of the search operator with the literal parameter as in the example I shared;

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Hello @telmiger,
I created that tiddler (with some style):
$__plugins_telmiger_simple-search_SearchResultsPhrase.json (654 Bytes)

and add it to

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Greetings
Stefan