changeset 1929:c85d700ca146

Clarify the "help" section of how the search works, etc.
author Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
date Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:44:07 +0200
parents 7c51fac00c79
children 44b7ddbd5cb0
files www/search.php
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/www/search.php	Thu Nov 09 17:54:30 2017 +0200
+++ b/www/search.php	Thu Nov 09 20:44:07 2017 +0200
@@ -42,11 +42,18 @@
 
 <div id="note">
   <ol>
-    <li>The search ignores following characters (they act as wildcards):
-<b>*, @, ?, %, C, X</b> and whitespace, thus searching <b>exact</b> matches for player cities (C), shrine
-(%) and location markers (?) is not possible.</li>
-    <li>"*", "@" and "X" will be used to center the search coordinates if they are present in the pattern.</li>
-    <li>Obviously the search pattern must be "clean", e.g. output from 'look' will not work if it has ships/NPCs or such.</li>
+    <li>The following characters act as wildcards (they match any character):
+      <b>*</b>, <b>@</b>, <b>?</b>, <b>%</b>, <b>C</b>, <b>X</b> and
+      whitespace, thus searching <i>exact</i> matches for player cities
+      (C), shrine (%) and location markers (?) is not possible.</li>
+    <li><b>*</b>, <b>@</b> and <b>X</b> will be used to center the
+      search coordinates if they are present in the pattern. If no such
+      character is present, the coordinates listed in search results
+      will be for the <i>top-left corner of the search pattern</i>.</li>
+    <li>Obviously the search pattern must be "clean", e.g. output from
+      'look' with ships/NPCs/etc or direct copy-paste with anything
+      extranous other than the map data itself <b>will not work</b>.
+      </li>
   </ol>
 </div>