The `html_sidebars` config value can now contain patterns as keys, and the values can be lists that explicitly select which sidebar templates should be rendered.

That means that the builtin sidebar contents can be included only selectively.

doc/conf.py

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
 html_index = 'index.html'
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, maps page names to templates.
-html_sidebars = {'index': 'indexsidebar.html'}
+html_sidebars = {'index': ['indexsidebar.html', 'searchbox.html']}
 
 # Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
 # templates.