I've work a lot with the book module since D5 and have many book related projects. In doing some profiling of said projects, I came across a few obnoxiously bloated functions in the book module which could serve cached output (basically the prev, up, next links are killer). Project page says it all as to why: https://www.drupal.org/project/book_cache
module in D7 adds: - a cache bin - hijacks a template preprocess functions to use book_cache's instead of core - triggers cache bin to clear at logical points in time (node save, insert, delete w/ ->book property set, etc) - has admin_menu support to clear via that UI if requested
It being so late int he D7 cycle I probably won't even bother trying to submit a patch for core for it but if this would be something that'd receive eyes / testing / consideration for inclusion in backdrop I'll throw it directly into Backdrop's book module and issue a PR.
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There is also Node Comments Search - this searches the node and all comments (default search is node and first page of comments) as part of the content search. Izzy's module above is a separate...
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I have created a new module comment_search
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If there is no response, alternatively, you can use a View with a list of comments, with a filter based on the comment text. I haven't tried it myself, I just got an idea.
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