Search needs option for required words, logical operations, ignore words, etc

[dan_gawarecki@…]

The searching functionality is extremely limited (IMHO). I would like to see options added for:

1. Required words (e.g, like !eBay where "+XXX" means must find word "XXX" on the page.
2. Words to Ignore.
3. Logical operations such as AND OR (although having required words might make logical operations less needed; e.g., two required words is the same as ANDing those two words).

Note: Ticket #5933 asks to "Add search options for "match case" and "match whole word"

[Remy Blank]

I thought we already had a ticket for improving the search functionality, but I can't find it ATM. So let's keep this one until Christian mentions the other one :)

[anonymous]

Comment from Reporter
This is somewhat redundant to mention, but I too would have thought there would have already been a ticket for improving the search functionality, but I could not find one other than 5933 that I referenced in the description. The ticket you are thinking of perhaps might not be classified as a "search system" component, for the number of tickets so classified is quite small (<15 if I remember correctly, perhaps even <10).

[Ryan J Ollos <ryano@…>]

Replying to rblank:

I thought we already had a ticket for improving the search functionality, but I can't find it ATM. So let's keep this one until Christian mentions the other one :)

The comments in 4:ticket:9098 might be relevant.

[framay <franz.mayer@…>]

I guess "match case" functionality depends on ticket #8519.

As written in TracSearch#SearchLinks you have logical operator like AND by using the +-operator (if I understood it correctly). But as said in ticket description it would be nice having these functionalities represented by checkboxes in search view.

Also I do not understand why search string "trac + link" (without quotes) returns 401 results, "trac | link" returns 277 results ("trac link" returns 2056 results).