I’ve been using SilverSearch for a while now and I have to say that it works beautifully - except for some of the “Some advanced tips” parts.
ext:png → 0 results, while I do have a lot of documents in .png format (searching for plain “png” returns all the places where they’re used) - maybe document names are not indexed somehow?
path:“some path” does not return anything, ever
-exclusions took me a while to understand that it must be written as -“words I want to exclude” and not -exclusions “words I want to exclude”
The important part here is, that you always have to add some text to search for, so you can’t just get all files under a specific path, or all files with a specific extension. This is a restriction by the minisearch api, which has <insert long github comment> reasons. I could work around that, but it introduces some questions like “What would the sort order be?” and omnisearch doesn’t do it. If you really only want all files e.g. from a specific extension you could do ext:pdf pdf.
As for document names not being indexed: Right now a document for which Silversearch can’t retrieve content, will not be indexed. So if you want png files to be indexed you could do
event.listen {
name = "silversearch:index",
run = function (event)
local meta = event.data.meta
if (meta.contentType != "image/png") then
return
end
return { content = "" }
end
}
Which will just return an empty string as the content for png files. I thought about making an option which would do this by default, would that be useful?
