[Mediawiki-l] Search fix: secondary search

[John Andrews]

> On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:53 AM, John Andrews wrote:
> > The help for search says this regarding secondary
> search:
> >
> > 	Oddly, sometimes no context is shown.
> 
> What is "secondary search"?

>From the MediaWiki handbook:
   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help%3ASearching

  Secondary search

  After finding the pages, these pages are searched
again to have the results show in red in the context
lines; this search uses a more relaxed criterion:
search terms occurring in the wikitext, even as part
of a word, are shown in red.

  Oddly, sometimes no context is shown.
> 
> > We (Christian Zankel) seem to have fixed this by
> applying the
> > following diff to
> mediawiki-1.3.8/includes/SearchEngine.php:
> 
> Looks like this change recently done in 1.4:
>
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/includes/
> 
> SpecialSearch.php?r1=1.6&r2=1.7

Great, so the fix has already been applied.
 
> This changes the meaning of the contextlines setting
> from the number of  
> lines at the beginning of the page to check, to the
> total number of  
> matching lines to show. Is this correct?

Correct.

Thanks,

JA

> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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