finishing touches on the new search plugin

- Add a Help link.
- If the pageterm is too long, hash it.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki.mdwn
index 485ac8826..c98a97e59 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki.mdwn
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ Some documentation on using ikiwiki:
 * [[ikiwiki/markdown]]
 * [[ikiwiki/subpage]]
 * [[ikiwiki/openid]]
+* [[ikiwiki/searching]]
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/searching.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/searching.mdwn
index 0eeb5a6b9..539e7193d 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/searching.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/searching.mdwn
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ then="This wiki has searching **enabled**."
 else="This wiki has searching **disabled**."]]
 
 If searching is enabled, you can enter search terms in the search field,
-like you'd expect. There are a few special things you can do to constuct
+as you'd expect. There are a few special things you can do to constuct
 more powerful searches.
 
 * To match a phrase, enclose it in double quotes.
diff --git a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn
index e53c28c7c..9336b2403 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 
 This plugin adds full text search to ikiwiki, using the
 [xapian](http://xapian.org/) engine, its
-[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend,
-and the [[cpan Search::Xapian]] perl module. (The [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
-perl module will also be used, if available.)
+[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend, and the
+[[cpan Search::Xapian]], [[cpan Digest::SHA1]], and [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
+perl modules.
+
+The [[ikiwiki/searching]] page describes how to write search queries.
 
 Ikiwiki will handle indexing new and changed page contents. Note that since
 it only indexes page contents, files copied by the [[rawhtml]] plugin will