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:warning: UNMAINTAINED: A simple wiki using Markdown
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Finding key words/phrases is not possible #8

Closed mblayman closed 10 years ago

mblayman commented 11 years ago

Problem: It is not possible to search the wiki for content.

Solution: The wiki should integrate with a search tool. In the spirit of being simple to install, a pure Python solution like Whoosh is preferred.

mblayman commented 11 years ago

I'm using Whoosh. I will add a search box either in the top bar near login or directly above the actions column on the left. The first release of this will probably have a fairly unexciting results page unless I can determine how to show snippets of wiki pages in the results.

I also don't know if this will require an Async writer. It probably will to prevent disruption to the user and there are some write lock issues that may need to be resolved.

mblayman commented 10 years ago

Write lock issues are for down the road. That will be for the case where two people update a MarkWiki page at the exact same second. No install of MarkWiki is that heavily used yet.

The basic search implementation is done. There are some areas for improvement (like not showing raw Markdown syntax in the highlight), but this is a good first cut.