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  • 1.  Fifth Issue - searching

    Posted 09-11-2007 23:02
    The way searching works is somewhat counterintuitive (to me) and
    not very usefully in some contexts.
    
    I would expect that if I'm somewhere down a tree, and I want to
    find something, it would be searched from that branch down,
    not from the very top of the tree...
    
    For instance, if I'm all the way down in docbook/sgml/4.3 and
    I want to see if there are any html files down there, and I
    enter "html" in File Name Search, I would expect the system
    to return only those files that contain the string 'html'
    from there on down. Instead, I get 67 pagefuls of all the html
    files (and directories called html) in the whole library.
    
    Perhaps the search can be refined in some manner? This is very
    counterintuitive, and I can only imagine the confusion it will
    cause when searching wsrm and getting ws-rx/wsrm ;-)
    
    (IT people, ask Robin or Mary to explain to you what this
    means...)
    
    
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