I'm about to use the excellent KinoSearch module for a few non-standard tasks, for example for searching in IRC logs and SVN commit messages.

Both are "non-standard" in that it doesn't make sense to order the results by match quality, chronologically ordered results are much more useful (at least optionally).

Of course I could retrieve the results normally, sort them all, and re-implement the paging of results manually, but that's rather inefficient and clumsy.

Can I tell KinoSearch somehow to sort the result set by user-defined criteria? I know these criteria at indexing time (and even index creation time, if that helps).

grep'ping for sort seems promising, but so far I couldn't find documentation on how to do it.

In reply to Sorting KinoSearch results by moritz

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