Re: [aur-general] The search engine needs improvements

On 10 Jan 2009, at 3:50 pm -0800, Olivier Duclos wrote:

Le Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:39 +0100, Xavier a écrit:

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But then again, rar is probably a corner case. I have personally never ran into that problem in all the searches I did on AUR so it is probably not a big deal :)

I think it would be a great new feature, but still I think that if we have an exact match, it should be shown first.

I've quickly modified Find.php to do that. At line 261, I changed the if block to :

[SNIP]

Of course, this only works if $pattern correspond exactly to what the user has typed, which I am absolutely not sure. Anyway, don't you think it's a good idea ?

So this is probably a completely impractical idea, but what about adding some sort of rudimentary regexp search? Or at least, say, something that would recognize "^" as the beginning of the package name and "$" as the end? Again, I don't know how well this would work, but it's just a thought. Ivy P.S.: Should this be Cc'd to aur-dev? -- If I Ever Become An Evil Villainess... 27. I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times.