Use Google to search the Snippet Repos.

[Nicholas WASTELL]

Hello,

After suffering the 'ancient' bug when searching the Lilypond snippet 
repository, I found that Google can do a pretty good job.  I'm sure that none 
of this will be new to some of you, but others may find it useful.

To search LSR from the Google search page, enter:

site:lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Browse <search terms>

It can be useful to have a bookmark with a keyword (Firefox name -- other 
browsers have something similar) set, so that entering the keyword followed by 
the search terms into the browser location bar does it all for you.

The bookmark is set to:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Browse %s

and the keyword can be whatever is convenient -- I use 'lsr'.  So, to search 
for, say, 'add new staff', type:

lsr add new staff

press Enter/click on 'Go' and it works nicely.  All the usual Google search 
rules apply, so some wildcard situations are handled automatically, further 
enhancing the user experience, as they say.  As a side benefit, it passes the 
search load from the LSR host servers to Google's.  Caveat: it will not see 
changes to the LSR for a few days, until the Google bots revisit the host.


Rgds,

Nick.
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Nicholas WASTELL
France