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Searching Specific Threads

rjo__rjo__ Posts: 2,114
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How do I search a specific thread?

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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    Ray, Does the new search do any better for you?

    I always use <question> site:forums.parallax.com



  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-09-25 15:43
    It's a good question.

    Often you know what you want is in some massively long thread but you can't find it short of visiting every page and searching the page.

    I guess I should update my parallax-scrape program to the new forum format then we can down load an entire thread and search the resulting text file.
  • rjo__rjo__ Posts: 2,114
    That would do it:)
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-09-25 15:56
    Heater. wrote: »
    It's a good question.


    I guess I should update my parallax-scrape program to the new forum format then we can down load an entire thread and search the resulting text file.

    That would be great. IIRC, I could not get the last one to work here for some reason.

    I miss the search by Thread Starter.


  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    The old parallax-scrape worked very well. But now all the HTML has changed so it needs fixing up for that.

  • rjo__rjo__ Posts: 2,114
    Publison,

    As to your first question.

    It isn't good enough... it searches the entire forum, when I just want to search a thread... most of the time looking for the earliest occurance.
    What is helpful at the moment is to look for comments by Chip... these show up in a time ordered sequence, but not the entire list... you have to keep adding to the list to go back a little further. If that was searchable using forum tools, that would be very useful.

    So... for example. search for comments by Chip including the term "setq"... and having that pop out a time ordered list.

    This might be possible already and I just don't know how to do it:)

  • SeairthSeairth Posts: 2,474
    One thing you can do is use "link:". Copy the thread URL (without /pXX and so on) and preface it with "link:". For instance

    link:forums.parallax.com/discussion/162069/the-new-16-cog-512kb-64-analog-i-o-propeller-chip-part-2 instruction set

    Technically, you only need this much:

    link:forums.parallax.com/discussion/162069 instruction set

    It will at least get you to the correct page (assuming you have the right search terms). From there, Ctrl+F or scan...
  • rjo__rjo__ Posts: 2,114
    Seairth... works as advertised.

    to search the monster thread I use:

    link:http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/155132/the-new-16-cog-512kb-64-analog-i-o-propeller-chip#latest setq

    This gives me 4 references.... not too bad:)

    Thanks
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