From b95143073c0e7bc0c635825b9773d124647df1cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: albert-github Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:53:11 +0200 Subject: issue #8505 Local search too specific Added small explanation on searching in the documentation. --- doc/searching.doc | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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`.

2. Server side searching

If you plan to put the HTML documentation on a web server, and that -- cgit v0.12