A possible bug in the search box functionality.

[Manoj Waikar]

Hi,

I want to search for with-in-str in the search box provided. If I type only with- (or anything less than the complete string), the instant searched results, which are shown as drop down, does not show this particular function.

This function starts showing up in that drop down if you type in the complete string. Shouldn't it start showing up much earlier?

Thanks,
Manoj.

[zkim]

> Shouldn't it start showing up much earlier?

Possibly, this is a consequence of the limitations of Sphinx for
searching code (something it wasn't designed to do). I believe we've
got a hack in there to run a fulltext match against the database when
Sphinx returns 0 results, but we might be able to make it work. I'll
have to take a closer look.

[Zachary Kim]

Correction, not using fulltext.  We're doing an exact match against the database and prepending the results to whatever Sphinx returns.