So perhaps my original question was mis-worded. The problem is that I
don't want to have to write redirect pages for all of my entries,
especially if various users are the ones who are going to be adding
them.
Is there any way to have "Go" searching (not "Search" searchig) be
case-insensitive?
On Feb 15, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Muke Tever wrote:
Tor Kinlok <tor(a)superman.ws> wrote:
For instance, on wikipedia, a search for
"Albert Einstein" takes you
directly to his page, but "albert einstein" only works because of a
redirect. Or at least, that's what used to happen this morning. On
just checking this, they seem to have (temporarly?) replaced their own
search function with google's. On my site, try
If there is a redirect sitting at [[albert einstein]] for whatever
reason--
which on Wikipedia, there is--the "go" search will find it first.
It'll even
find [[albert einstein]] if you search for "aLbErT eInStEiN". That
is, the
go search is case-insensitive, but if there are multiple matches, the
one it
returns may not be the one you were looking for. (It seems that if
you happen
to hit upon the exact casing of an article title, it'll take you
straight to it.)
For example, Wikipedia has full articles about "latex" (at [[Latex]])
and
"LaTeX" (at [[LaTeX]]).
* go-searching for "latex" will take you to [[Latex]]
* go-searching for "LATEX" will take you to [[Latex]]
* go-searching for "lAtEx" will take you to [[Latex]], etc., but:
* go-searching for "LaTeX" will take you to [[LaTeX]]
When there's no ambiguity, case-insensitive search works just like you
might
expect it to: go-searching for "LaTiN" will take you to [[Latin]].
*Muke!
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