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Searching Forum
Posted: 31 Mar 2018, 08:12
by jwinfl
How can I search the forum for an exact phrase, example, "gui command list"?
I tried quotes, advanced search, etc. but none return only posts that have the phrase that is inside the quotes.
Thank you for your help.
Re: Searching Forum
Posted: 31 Mar 2018, 09:50
by garry
search in autohotkey help for GUI
run, %a_programfiles%\autohotkey\autohotkey.chm
Re: Searching Forum
Posted: 31 Mar 2018, 11:47
by jwinfl
Garry,
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately, my question was "How can I search the forum..."?
In other words, I want to search THIS FORUM for an exact phrase, if possible.
For example; "gui text color" (text within the quotes) and only get posts that have that exact phrase in them, not every post that has gui, text or color in it.
Re: Searching Forum
Posted: 31 Mar 2018, 12:28
by BoBo
https://autohotkey.com/boards/search.php 
(clicking the tiny gear-icon within the forum searchs edit field)
Checking the whole forum using Google with its search parameters ...
site:autohotkey.com "my search terms" language:en
Hope that helps
Re: Searching Forum
Posted: 31 Mar 2018, 15:02
by jwinfl
BoBo,
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately, using google missed 98.4% of the posts in my quick test.
Test example, "gui" using the forum's search returns 14,393 posts, using google (site:autohotkey.com "gui" language:en) returns only 231 posts about 1.6%.
I was hoping there was a way to use the forum's advance search but it appears advance search just ignores quotes and I have no idea how to format the search so it will only find posts with a specific phrase.
Re: Searching Forum
Posted: 02 Apr 2018, 04:03
by garry
I think exact search is useless ( autohotkey help was ok for me ) or learned from users script
... "gui text color" (text within the quotes) and only get posts that have that exact phrase in them ...
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Gui,2: Color, Black
Gui,2:Add,Text, x10 y10 w40 vT1 cGray