Search with regular expressions

Regular search is often OK, but if I need to find something using a pattern there is no support for regular expressions.

I think this features is quite easy to add (I've a quite limited python experience). –Manuel

It's impossible to add with the way Hatta does searches: by using an index of words. I've chosen this technique because it's very fast and lets me compute a relevancy – which is crucial for good search results. It would be probably possible to implement a second, slow search that doesn't use word index and scans all the files each time you do a search – but I think it wouldn't be that useful, compared to the amount of work needed.

Since Hatta stores everything as simple files, you can use tools like grep to search in a very flexible way. This requires you to clone the wiki's repository to your local disk though.

Would you care to tell me about your particular use case? Why do you need regular expressions? What are you trying to do? There may be an easier way to achieve that. – Radomir Dopieralski

It was just a thought that came to me while searching for a wiki software suitable for my needs. You are right about the grep thing, why it didn't came to mind?

In short: I don't need it right now. Probably word search will work just fine for me. Thank you for your reply (and hatta, too)! – Manuel