https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171199

Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Ability to retrieve whole   |Support interpreting search
                   |phrases by fragmented       |string as a set of words
                   |searching                   |rather than a contiguous
                   |                            |phrase
             Blocks|                            |161449

--- Comment #8 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Danat from comment #7)
> 
> 1. I'm using sidebar. Don't know about the rest

Ok, but if you don't give it thought you are significantly reducing the chances
of your suggestion being accepted, since you're not arguing in favor of a whole
solution, while the current state of affairs is consistent among all loci of
search.

> 2. I think it may be a different mode of searching that you may choose in
> options. So if you want - it will only display exact matches, and if you
> want - it will search less rigidly and look for similarities

So, you're suggesting that if someone wants to search for a phrase, they will
either have to know they need to go to Tools > Options, figure out the tab in
which to find the option, and set it; or what is rather likely - they will
assume it is not possible, and have to manually inspect the much larger set of
search results for the individual words? I don't know, that's not very
appealing...

But how about this: We add a toggle in the search settings dialog for the Quick
Find bar, with the choice between "entire phrase" and "all words" (and we can
bikeshed the labeling and whether it's a checkbox or a two-option radio group.)

> I don't know what would be the best way of coding it, however, perhaps it
> would be okay for the app to scan individual pages, and if those pages
> contain the fragments that are being searched - then the search engine shows
> that pages

The implementation is not our problem - luckily. If the UX suggestion is
legitimate, and it's not patently impossible to implement, then - it's up to
the developers.

By the way - I don't believe this has anything to do with AI, it's a perfectly
valid suggestion on its own.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161449
[Bug 161449] [META] Find deck of the Sidebar
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