Allow trac.ini to configure default quicksearch options

[fermulator@…]

Good day,

I'd like to submit this enhancement to the 'quicksearch' feature of trac. (i.e. on every page there is a search box and when you click search it does a 'quicksearch')

Currently by default the quicksearch automatically searches tickets, wiki, and changesets. It would be beneficial to be able to set which of those three by default it searches on a per project basis (i.e. in trac.ini).

Suggestion in trac.ini:

[search]

default_search_items

List of which items to search through on a default quicksearch (i.e. tickets,wiki,changesets,etc.). The absence of this entry will default to search on all tickets, wiki, and changsets.

NOTE: The list for default_search_items should also work with plugins such as the ​SearchAllPlugin

[Remy Blank]

The description is incorrect, in that the quicksearch searches in all wiki syntax providers, not just tickets, wiki pages and changesets. Try entering milestone:0.11 into the quicksearch of this page. If the search string doesn't match a wiki syntax provider, it will do a conventional search.

This is actually a feature, and I don't see the general value in restricting the providers for quicksearch. If this is really needed, it could be implemented as a plugin (an IRequestFilter).

[osimons]

I'd need to look into the code to see how quicksearch gets affected by #7703, but I seem to remember the quicksearch actually receives no filters and will expand that to mean 'all' filters. With #7703 that may change to just mean 'some' filters.