ThesaHelp: search dialog box

Summary

The Search menu contains several options for searching Thesa. The primary commands, 'title' (F2) and 'text' (cap F2), search topics and text for words matching the cursor. Use the search dialog box for greater control over what is searched.

Enter one or more words into the search box. Only the first five or six letters are significant. Capitalization is ignored except for the first letter. See below for additional rules. Use ? to indicate an unknown character.

Use the check boxes to limit your search. The first row is what section to search, the second row is what type of item to search. Use the 'all' button to cycle through the check boxes.

Use the 'not' box to skip matches with these words.

If you check the 'show title & text counts', the results will indicate the different areas. Counts for topics are separate from counts for other types of items. So if a word occurs in the title and the text of a topic, it is counted as 1 + 1.

The 'Counts' button, counts the matching items instead of listing them.

For searching, Thesa compresses words into 24 bits. The rules are as follows (ThesaSrc: _getsig):

1st letter is unchanged

2nd through 5th letter ignores capitalization

3rd through 5th letter treats Q-Z the same as G-P

The 4th or 5th vowel is skipped, adding the 6th letter

Numbers are literal

IDs are literal

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ThesaHelp: help with search