Anyone have any tips for locating posts by a given monk that are replies to one of my posts... or my posts that are replies to a given monk?


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2006-01-16 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Searching'

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Re: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 16, 2006 at 11:17 UTC
    No, other than searching all of a given monk's replies with super search. I'm pretty sure this has been requested as an enhancement of super search before, though.
Re: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 16, 2006 at 21:02 UTC

    I've posted a patch that I think will do it. Whether tye thinks its up to scratch for application I don't know. Its his baby so its up to him whether it gets applied.

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    $world=~s/war/peace/g

      Thanks demerphq, regardless of whether it gets adopted.

      I wasn't actually pushing for change, just wondering if anyone had worked out a way of doing it with the existing facilities.

      That said, the number of times when I vaguely remember that a particular monk said something, either as a reply to me, or to which I remember replying, if this does become available it will be very useful. Often as not, these are small exchanges way down in a thread that have nothing whatever to do with the original subject, so the title of the thread doesn't stick in ones memory.


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

        After a couple of tweaks tye asked me to apply it. Now you can help test it. :-)

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        $world=~s/war/peace/g

Re: Any way to search for nodes by one monk in reply to another monk?
by davidrw (Prior) on Jan 16, 2006 at 14:21 UTC
    Not the same, but definitely a related issue: Determining who has linked to one of your nodes?

    "posts by a given monk that are replies to one of my posts" is easy w/Super Search, assuming that the replies have the same title: search for posts by that monk and w/the title constraint.

    "posts that are replies to a given monk?" is harder (assuming you don't have a specific thread in mind to title search) .. would need to cross-reference that monk's nodes with your looking for the same thread (there could be some false positives in there, too).