Le samedi 27 juillet 2024 à 15:40 -0500, Christopher Heckman a écrit : > This is a useful website to bookmark and use, but I've found over the > years that it can be improved. My suggestions are: > > (1) Allow an option to search by thread. If X is a thread that matches > the search, then most of the emails there (and in Re: X) will also > match, filling up the screen. > > (2) The upper limit for a search term should probably be increased. We > have faster computers now, and there are more emails in the archive, > the second of which results in more hits. > > (3) If you are performing an AND search, and one of the terms has too > many hits, it is dropped, and you get the search for just the other > one. If there are not too many hits for the second term, the search > engine should look through those documents for the first term. > > Example: When I search for "markup table", "table" has 1609 hits at > the moment, and "markup" has too many. The engine should go back > through "table" 's 1609 hits and check each one for "markup", instead > of just providing the 1609 hits for "table".
We (list admins) are aware the list archives are horrible, but this isn't under our control; they are administered at the level of the gnu.org mailing list server. The admins of that are also aware of the problems, and at some point I heard they wanted to change the archive interface software, but that was a while ago and it didn't happen yet. I think they are quite under-resourced. Meanwhile, you can try to see if https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/ works better for you, or you can download the list archives in mbox format from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/lilypond-user/ , then either import them into your mail client, or even just use rg/grep on them directly. They weigh ~1.8 GB, figured obtained (without downloading the whole thing) with curl -s https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/lilypond-user/ \ | rg -or 'https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/lilypond-user/$1' 'href="(\d+-\d+)"' \ | xargs curl -sI \ | rg -or '$1' 'Content-Length: (\d+)' \ | paste -sd+ \ | bc \ | numfmt --to si Best, Jean
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