https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33561

--- Comment #11 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> 
2012-09-30 15:02:28 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> > Actually... quite frankly in the old system I doubt the user ever 
> > understood that they could re-search with a separate fulltext search.
> > For those kinds of situations a feature that adds something like
> 
> I once requested a sub notice for "You have been redirected to this page
> because it perfectly matched your search. Click here to do a full text 
> search".
> 
> It was solved as WONTFIX because it won't work with filecached articles.
> (meanwhile jquery may help tho).
> 
> I would link to it if Bugzilla had a proper SEARCH.

Yeah cached articles are a problem. And the ?from=<search> idea is bad too. The
proper way to do it is with JS. I've added a comment to bug 23772 explaining
how to implement it.

> > The old functionality was one of the worst. Not for me.
> I don't use Vector and Monobook is default for all users so my search is still
> the old.
> I don't use Lucene (yet) so I don't have problems with suggestions in the
> sidebar search.
> If you remove the old search from core I have to hack it back in :(

Hmmm, what does Lucene break? $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch only controls vector.
MonoBook is $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm (changing the default is bug 40622). For
MonoBook when two-button search is disabled you get a "Go" button and an
"Advanced search" button that leads to the search page where you can do
fulltext searches.
Also btw, Krinkle is working on making simplesearch's suggestions work on all
skins and become part of core.

Btw, if power users have so much problems with the "Go" functionality. Have you
considered writing a Gadget? All you have to do is grab the search form and
give the single submit button name="fulltext".
Right now you'll have to use the varying IDs but in the future all skins should
start using class="mw-search".

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