Joel's Compendium of Total Knowledge

A search for more than one word will find pages that contain all of the words. Use quotation marks to search for a phrase. Also use quotes for text with punctuation or special characters. Searches are case insensitive.

To limit your search to a single group, enter the group name followed by a slash at the beginning of the search string (e.g., "PmWiki/" or "Site/"). To list all pages, enter a slash for the search.

Search examples

Enter	To find pages containing
apple pie	both 'apple' and 'pie'
"apple pie"	the phrase 'apple pie'
pmwiki/apple	'apple' in the PmWiki group of pages
"pmwiki/apple"	the phrase 'pmwiki/apple' in all groups of pages
apple -pie	'apple', omitting those containing 'pie'
food -"apple pie"	'food', omitting those containing 'apple pie'
apple "-pie"	the words 'apple' and '-pie'
apple - pie	'apple', '-', and 'pie'
"pie:"	the word 'pie' with a colon
"pie=tasty"	the phrase 'pie=tasty'
name=crumble	page names containing 'crumble'

Some special characters need to be enclosed in quotes, including the colon (:), equals sign (=), less than (<), single quote (') and double quote(").

For advanced searches, page list parameters (count, name, group, fmt, link, list, order, and trail) can be entered together with the search string.

Wild card characters: asterisk (*) represent zero or more characters and question mark (?) represent exactly one character.