How does the search function actually work?

Yeah it would be nice if there was an option to only return results with an exact match for the keyword. Or if it would make use of modifiers like +, -, "", etc.

Crowe said:

I haven't run into this issue before, but when I try to search for 'Orchestrator' in Titles it returns everything with Orchestra and Orchestral in the title. That's way too much to be useful. How does this work on this forum? How do I limit my search results to the exact term I'm looking for?

Cheers!

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Confirmed. That's not helpful, eh? I think it's searching for tags too, but let me check further.

d.healey said:

Yeah it would be nice if there was an option to only return results with an exact match for the keyword. Or if it would make use of modifiers like +, -, "", etc.

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That's what the modifier " " should be doing.

creativeforge said:

Confirmed. That's not helpful, eh? I think it's searching for tags too, but let me check further.

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I'm sure it would be a lot less annoying if wasn't searching for 'Orchestrator' on a forum for orchestral VI's :D.

Thanks CF!

Crowe said:

I haven't run into this issue before, but when I try to search for 'Orchestrator' in Titles it returns everything with Orchestra and Orchestral in the title. That's way too much to be useful. How does this work on this forum? How do I limit my search results to the exact term I'm looking for?

Cheers!

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Replicated, and FIXED.

Try it now and let me know? Search for orchestrator?

EDIT: still tweaking that feature. Hold on.

There's still some weird stuff going on here, 'search titles' seems to also hit on the first sentences of the thread but regardless, it works a lot better now. Great work!

For reference:

Crowe, you can use Google to search on vi-control.net only if you want.
Many people don't know that's possible so I keep telling it to everyone at every chance I get
Here's the first page of the result from Google:



You can click "Tools" and select a time frame the search should look within, for example to limit the results to be from May 2001 to August 2002 (!).

Unfortunately results can't be ordered - not AFAIK anyway. For example ordered by date.