User linking and thepen search

Suggestion #1: If you want to link to a particular user, you seem to have to use the [id://id-of-user] syntax. I often type in [user://username] -- I have always expected this to work, and have always been surprised when it doesn't.

Suggestion #2: Add a direct link to a site-restricted Google search of perlmonks.thepen.com to the top of the Super Search page. Or maybe a text entry field that appends the site restriction to the query and does the search immediately.

Suggestion #3: Similarly to Bookmarklet to view original of node, only add a link to every node that points to the original on thepen so that people won't need the clever bookmark.

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Re: User linking and thepen search
by greenFox (Vicar) on Jul 22, 2004 at 08:29 UTC

re Suggestion #1 [username] works - greenFox.

Agree re Suggestion #2, good idea.

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Re^2: User linking and thepen search

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 22, 2004 at 21:38 UTC

?;node=pod;type=user

?;node=pod

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Re^2: User linking and thepen search

by sfink (Deacon) on Jul 23, 2004 at 05:49 UTC

Sadly, I never figured that out for myself. Ouch. Thank you.

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Re: User linking and thepen search
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 22, 2004 at 08:16 UTC

++ I would be grateful if #2 were put in. I've started doing it manually lately.

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Re: User linking and thepen search
by chazzz (Pilgrim) on Jul 22, 2004 at 10:38 UTC

Suggestion #2 - Yes please!

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Re: User linking and thepen search
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 28, 2004 at 04:36 UTC

Working patch for #2 (but maybe not ideal).

html

<form action="./google.cgi" method="get"
 enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
Search The Monastery pages via
 <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>&trade;
<input type="text" name="search_google"
 onmouseover="this.focus()" style="width:15em;" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
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cgi (as google.cgi above)

use CGI;
use URI::Escape;
use Socket qw(:crlf);
my $q = CGI::param('search_google') . ' site:perlmonks.thepen.com';
$q = uri_escape( $q );
print "Location: http://www.google.com/search?q=$q", CRLF, CRLF;
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Re^2: User linking and thepen search (fixed)

by tye (Sage) on Jul 28, 2004 at 06:17 UTC

There's already a working link on super search. There was a bug that prevented it from showing but that was fixed soon after this thread appeared. Because we just use google's form, the user can set other options as well.

- tye

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Re^3: User linking and thepen search (fixed)

by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 28, 2004 at 06:42 UTC

Oh, excellent. Thanks!

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