When I wrote "editable by all libraries..", I meant editable-in-the-hard-way (record.abs etc). It would be better than nothing...

Ah. Yes. This is an excellent idea. :)

As an initial step, you might consider submitting a patch that adds the hardcoded index and allows librarians to choose which keyword index to use on the OPAC and staff client. This shouldn't be too hard.

I will try to do that next week.
I add that as many libraries we are looking forward for SolR, so I won't spend weeks of work for reconfiguring Zebra based search, but even little improvements will be helpful for our users ;-)

I am looking forward to Solr too, but it will be a while before it is ready for production, and I don't think it will ever be able to completely replace Zebra. It requires much more powerful hardware than many libraries can afford.

Regards,

Jared