Feature Proposal: Formatted Search Summary with Expand Var

Motivation

Add a $summary(expandvar) to the FormattedSearch to get a summary with expanded variables. Useful for TWikiApplications.

Description

The FormattedSearch already supports a $summary(showvarnames) to show the variable names, e.g. %TOC% is shown as TOC (without the percent).

With the new $summary(expandvar) feature it is possible to get the variable expanded.

Related, the default $summary() strips all variables. It also strips all percent signs. This change retains the percent signs and <nop> tags, so that text with an escaped variable gets rendered identical in the rendered text and topic summary, e.g. as %TOC%. This is relevant for related work going on, TipOfTheDayFeatureRequest.

Impact and Available Solutions

Documentation

In FormattedSearch change $summary(showvarnames) add $summary(expandvar):

Examples

Implementation

This is now in DEVELOP branch, r3592.

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Feb 2005

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