Searching
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created: 2006-01-16 05:59:23

Anyone have any tips for locating posts by a given monk that are replies to one of my posts... or my posts that are replies to a given monk?


Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
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Re: Searching
created: 2006-01-16 06:17:03
No, other than searching all of a given monk's replies with super search. I'm pretty sure this has been requested as an enhancement of super search before, though.
Re: Searching
created: 2006-01-16 09:21:04
Not the same, but definitely a related issue: Determining who has linked to one of your nodes?

"posts by a given monk that are replies to one of my posts" is easy w/Super Search, assuming that the replies have the same title: search for posts by that monk and w/the title constraint.

"posts that are replies to a given monk?" is harder (assuming you don't have a specific thread in mind to title search) .. would need to cross-reference that monk's nodes with your looking for the same thread (there could be some false positives in there, too).
Re: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
created: 2006-01-16 16:02:04

I've posted a patch that I think will do it. Whether tye thinks its up to scratch for application I don't know. Its his baby so its up to him whether it gets applied.

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Re^2: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
created: 2006-01-16 16:07:59

Thanks demerphq, regardless of whether it gets adopted.

I wasn't actually pushing for change, just wondering if anyone had worked out a way of doing it with the existing facilities.

That said, the number of times when I vaguely remember that a particular monk daid something, either as a reply to me, or to which I remember replying, if this does become available it will be very useful. Often as not, these are small exchanges way down in a thread that have nothing whatever to do with the original subject, so the title of the thread doesn't stick in ones memory.


Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
Re^3: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
created: 2006-01-16 17:10:10

After a couple of tweaks tye asked me to apply it. Now you can help test it. :-)

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Re^4: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
created: 2006-01-16 18:29:21

What can I say. The new option on Super Search appears to work perfectly. Thankyou++.

If other people going looking for things [somemonk] said in response to something [someothermonk] said, as often as I do, this oought to see server loads drop significantly as they & I will be able to zero in on what we are looking for considerably more quickly. Again, many thanks.


Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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