Re: xemacs-patches archive searching broken?

Malcolm> The search page for the xemacs-patches mailing list Malcolm> archive seems to be returning incomplete results. Malcolm> My procedure is: Malcolm> 1) Goto <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/> Malcolm> 2) Search for "Carbon" with all options left at their defaults. Malcolm> This returns matches for 4 files, the earliest being in Malcolm> September this year. My understanding is that is should Malcolm> return all messages containing 'Carbon' back to 1998, of Malcolm> which there are more than 4. It's certainly missing the Malcolm> message Malcolm> <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200305/msg00078.html> Malcolm> which was posted back in May. Hi Malcolm, that sucks! I'll try to find time to dig a bit deeper. Malcolm> Other oddities are: Malcolm> 1) Restricting the search for "Carbon" to May 2003 matches no files. Malcolm> 2) Restricting the search for "Carbon" to the last year (Nov 2003 - Dec 2002) Malcolm> generates the following errors: I made these messages at least get through to the web interface. Before that, these errors were well hidden. They result from a regex longer than ca. 50 characters (it's documented in the search help somewhere). You'll have to search ca. 3-4 months at a time when using restricted search. At least you'll get the error now. Malcolm> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm> GLIMPSEOUT:/web/http-xemacs/bin/glimpse: regular expression too long Malcolm> GLIMPSEOUT:/web/http-xemacs/bin/glimpse: regular expression too long Malcolm> GLIMPSEOUT:/web/http-xemacs/bin/glimpse: regular expression too long Malcolm> GLIMPSEOUT:/web/http-xemacs/bin/glimpse: regular expression too long Malcolm> GLIMPSEOUT:/web/http-xemacs/bin/glimpse: regular expression too long Malcolm> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm> Any help would be appreciated. Malcolm> Malcolm Malcolm> -- Malcolm> Malcolm Purvis <malcolmpurvis(a)optushome.com.au&gt; Malcolm> Q: Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? Malcolm> A: To get to the other... uh... err... -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/