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authoralbert-github <albert.tests@gmail.com>2021-04-20 12:53:11 (GMT)
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issue #8505 Local search too specific
Added small explanation on searching in the documentation.
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@@ -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