Issue 244 in bpbible: Search caps

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Status: New
Owner: markusch...@gmx.de

New issue 244 by markusch...@gmx.de: Search caps
http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/issues/detail?id=244

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they
were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Please note that the search engine considers LORD (all caps) the same as
Lord (not all caps) the same, however in the Bible, 'LORD' in all caps is a
reference to GOD and 'Lord,' not in all caps, is a reference to Jesus
Christ. It does not matter if I search with "LORD" and "Lord", I get both
words in the results when I would like separate results. The use of quotes
helps narrow the search results, otherwise, you get the following: Search
sin, with out quotes: Results: verses
with 'sin', 'sinner', 'sinning', 'sins', etc....


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Comment #1 on issue 244 by jonmmor...@gmail.com: Search caps
http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/issues/detail?id=244

I don't think this is a bug: it's just the way search generally works.
Trying to include capitalisation in the search will mean that many words
will be treated differently depending on whether they are at the start of a
sentence or in the middle of a sentence. This doesn't seem like a good
idea.

As far as the search for "sin" goes, this is also as designed: it is due to
the stemming process we use.
Why is it there? Because often you do want related words, and it saves you
having to remember to list them all out (and then having to list them all
out correctly).
I know I used frequently to have to make searches like
(sin,sinner,sinned,sins) and hope I caught everything I wanted to. It
doesn't always do what you want, but in my experience it does more often
than it doesn't, because it's easier to skip verses that aren't relevant
than it is to find important verses that you missed in a first search.

Also, officially the combination to switch stemming off would be +sin - I
didn't even realise quotes turned stemming off.

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Comment #2 on issue 244 by benpmor...@gmail.com: Search caps
http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/issues/detail?id=244

Expand Search Options on the search panel - there is an option there marked
Case Sensitive. This should do what you want. Can you confirm this works as
expected and desired?

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Updates:
Status: Invalid
Owner: benpmor...@gmail.com

Comment #3 on issue 244 by jonmmor...@gmail.com: Search caps
https://code.google.com/p/bpbible/issues/detail?id=244

I have confirmed that the "Case Sensitive" option mentioned by Ben above
seems to allow the behaviour requested. As a result, I'm closing this
issue.