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/

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:13, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I do ask that if you decide to work on it, that you collaborate with me some and share what you do... You don't HAVE to, but I'd like it if you would. My dream is that it will be a CPAN and/or Debian package someday, and in actual use somewhere besides: http://www.pdxlinux.org/search.html [Back to your regular XEmacs mailing list...]