It seems that my post here is turning my images into little thumbnails for some reason, but you can see the full images in my comment on this GitHub issue. <https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/3301#issuecomment-430768208>
Thanks again, Derek Murphy On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 4:31:58 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a member of the development team for the open source data repository > software Dataverse. <https://dataverse.org/> We currently use Sphinx > 1.5.6 for our documentation <http://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/>. I > was looking at our search logs recently and I noticed users attempting to > use quotation marks for exact phrase searching, e.g. "terms of use". > Unfortunately, this does not seem to work in our Sphinx search. This is > what happens when you attempt this query: > > [image: 43105328-79350ef0-8ea2-11e8-81be-b054930d4d2a.PNG] > > > As you can see, this currently returns a useless list of all pages that > use the words "use", "user", "used", etc. However, there are plenty of > relevant sections about Terms of Use on our guides that are being drowned > out. When I search "terms of use" using quotes on my local copy of the > guides using SublimeText's search feature, I get these useful results: > > [image: 43105408-c40d4e10-8ea2-11e8-8ead-b97bbd4f3b25.PNG] > > Is there any way to enable this kind of exact-phrasing search, and > furthermore is there any way to enable search with boolean operators like > AND, OR, and NOT? This would be enormously helpful to us and our users. I'm > aware that we're using an older version of Sphinx. Would updating help with > this, or improve the search functionality in other ways? > > Many thanks, > > Derek Murphy > UX Researcher > Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
