Re: Website mailing list search enhancement idea - one result per thread

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 9:30 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:17 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> > When searching the mailing lists in advanced search mode we have list
>> > filtering, timeframe filtering (pretty coarse though) and then sorting
>> > mode. For moderately long running threads a search term is going to
>> return
>> > many messages from the same thread. It would desirable to ask that only
>> > threads be shown and maybe how many individual messages in that thread
>> > matched.
>>
>> +1, an option to do that would be handy. No idea how hard it is ...
>>
>>

> Should this replace the current interface, or do we want to make something
> like this a choice?
>

I would have it be a choice under the advanced search options with possibly
an option on the search results page to "See thread results only".

David J.