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| author | albert-github <albert.tests@gmail.com> | 2021-04-20 12:53:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | albert-github <albert.tests@gmail.com> | 2021-04-20 12:53:11 (GMT) |
| commit | b95143073c0e7bc0c635825b9773d124647df1cf (patch) | |
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issue #8505 Local search too specific
Added small explanation on searching in the documentation.
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diff --git a/doc/searching.doc b/doc/searching.doc index 880c3f4..1bdb12d 100644 --- a/doc/searching.doc +++ b/doc/searching.doc @@ -43,8 +43,12 @@ has its own advantages and disadvantages: searching, i.e. the search results are presented and adapted as you type. This method also has its drawbacks: it is limited to searching for symbols - only. It does not provide full text search capabilities, and it does not + only. It does not provide full text search capabilities and it does not scale well to very large projects (then searching becomes very slow). + Furthermore the searching is done from the beginning of the indexed items, so + when having the available items `A_STRING`, `AA_STRING` and `STRING` and + typing in the search box `A` it will find `A_STRING` and `AA_STRING`, but when + typing e.g. `STR` it will only find `STRING` and not `A_STRING`. <h2>2. Server side searching</h2> If you plan to put the HTML documentation on a web server, and that |