Searching & Other Features

[JimLucas]

A) Searching, it seems, is context dependent. If you're checking out the Tedrow tour and do a search on "tuning", you'll get no matches (which is called an "error", and at first left me wondering whether I had made some gross blunder or the program had failed). But in the Concertina General Discussion (or whatever it's called; I can't see any *other* topics, messages, or whatever as I compose this, there will be plenty (25 when I tried it a few minutes ago). So many that they cross onto a second "page".

 

Here in Forum Questions, Suggestions, Help, you should now find at least two, since two of my posts (including this one) have mentioned searching on that word. Maybe you'll get only one if you search while in this Topic. I'm not sure, because I didn't think to check before I started composing this post.

 

Now this post is in response to something Michael Reid (did I remember that right?) said under a different "Topic". I created a new one for two reasons: (1) The old Topic had gotten (IMO) too long, with too many subtopics, interleaved in ways that made it difficult to keep track of them, and (2) I wanted a header that more accurately indicated the subtopic that *I* was talking about.

 

Unfortunately, the only way I know to let you know that it's a reply to something in another Topic is to say so here. There's really no good way to say so there. (I suppose I could make a separate post there directing you here, but I rebel at the extra work.)

 

C) I doubt that I'm the first person to have that particular difficulty with the Search facility. There are certainly other pitfalls, e.g., losing your right to vote in a poll by choosing a null vote, under the misapprehension that you one can replace it with a real vote, later.

 

It would be nice to have somewhere a compilation of such like pitfalls. Not a FAQ. These aren't frequently asked *questions*, but *warnings* about things you *should* ask, but probably won't realize you need to.

 

One could try starting a Topic with such a purpose (or continuing this one?), but I wouldn't want to have to search through it to see if there's anything I should be wary of when doing a search (e.g.).

Edited September 1, 2003 by JimLucas

[JimLucas]

Answer to one Search issue I raised: If I do a search from within a Topic, the search is apparently done on all Topics in the same Forum, not restricted to the single Topic.