[referencer] SPIRES interface and tag-suggestion

John Spray jcspray at icculus.org
Tue Oct 30 19:22:46 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:21 -0400, jcspray at icculus.org wrote:
> > - My second comment is about the tags. I hoped that marking two tags at
> > the same time would lead to an intesection of the results for each
> > single tag. Instead it leads to the sum, which I find very unfortunate.
> > Let me explain why I think that the first would be much more useful.
> > Suppose I am interested in finding an article which has either the tag
> > "important" or "interesting", but I cannot really remember. In this
> > case, I can use the tool as it is at the moment and mark both tags. But
> > that does not really help, because I have to look through all of
> > "important" and all of "interesting" anyway, because both are now
> > displayed.
> 
> I had vaguely intended to make it an option whether to do AND or OR,  
> but now that I'm clearly not getting around to that it's probably more  
> generally useful to make it AND.  Will probs get around to it soon.

And have just committed a change to svn to make it so.  Could use some
testing to make sure I haven't screwed anything up.

John




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