Inconsistent search for single-digit tickets

[eli.carter@…]

If you search for #1 in the search field, you will jump to that ticket. If you try to search for #1 on the search page, you get an error that the search term is too short. (So you'll get that error on the first 9 tickets of the project.)

It is also useful to search for tickets that reference a ticket number; perhaps the search page should do that instead.

[eli.carter@…]

t.e.o exhibits this behavior, as does a 0.10 install. Sorry, I don't have a 0.10.3 or 0.11 handy to try.

[eblot]

Replying to eli.carter@commprove.com:

It is also useful to search for tickets that reference a ticket number; perhaps the

search page should do that instead.

You can search for occurence of tickets using the ! character to escape the quickjump feature, for ex: !#45 will search for all occurences of '#45'.

[cboos]

Still, !#1 gives you the 'search query is too short' error…

There are two issues raised here:

1. the consistency of the quickjump behavior
2. how to find the tickets that references a ticket with only one digit, without getting hit by the minimal length check

For 1., I think the fix is easy (setting 0.10.4 for that).

For 2., it would be cumbersome to fix and I think that this functionality is better achieved with TracCrossReferences than by a search over the entire database (e.g. searching for #1, you'll miss all the ticket:1 references; not with proper cross-references management).

[eblot]

Replying to cboos:

Still, !#1 gives you the 'search query is too short' error…

Sure, it was just a workaround