It is not usual for me to pester people with tips around elog, but this
one was so helpful for me that I would like to share it.
The Mozilla based browsers, such as Netscape or Firefox
(http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) offer the possibility of
so-called "keymarks" or "bookmark keywords". This are bookmarks to which a
keywork can be added, making them a very powerful search tool for elog. This
can be explained most easily in an example:
Add following bookmark to your Browser:
Name: ELOG search
Location: http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/forum/?mode=full&sall=1&subtext=%s
Keyword: el
I attached a screendump of how this looks under Firefox. Now you can type
el <keyword>
in your URL address bar, and the elog forum is automatically searched for
that keyword (see second attachment), since the "%s" in the URL is
automatically replaced with your keyword. This works of course also with
your personal logbooks. The switch "sall=1" causes elog to search for the
string in the main text body and in all attributes.
The URL bar can be activated with CTRL-L, so the key sequence
CTRL-L el <keyword>
is all you need to search a ELOG logbook, even without touching the mouse. |