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Re: Use Google to search the Snippet Repos.


From: James E. Bailey
Subject: Re: Use Google to search the Snippet Repos.
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:31:54 +0100

Wow, thanks, I've liked the concept of the searchable LSR for a while, but because of this apparent "ancient" bug, it was largely useless for me. I don't use google much, but I'll certainly try this.

On 03.03.2008, at 14:26, Nicholas WASTELL wrote:

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.
--
Nicholas WASTELL
France



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