Add 3-letter terms for forum search-in-topic

[gwideman]

Hi -- mostly for Dave or the forum admins:

The search-in-topic is a highly useful feature for the long threads we have here. However, I've noticed that the forum indexer apparently indexes only terms that are 4 characters long or more. So, for example, searching this topic:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/software-tips-and-tricks-for-rigol-ds200040006000-ultravision-dsos/

fails for any of the following: RUU, USB, TCP, TCP/IP, LAN, DSO, GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, CH1, WFM, CSV, etc etc,

though it succeeds with: TCPIP, SCIP, JPEG, and so on.

Somewhat idiosyncratically, a multi-word OR search that happens to hit on a 4+ character term will also highlight any 3-character terms, though these don't work as hits in their own right.

No doubt the indexer allows constraining the minimum-length "word" it will bother with. However, for the content here, not including 3-character terms is a substantial shortcoming, so needless to say, I'd like to advocate that search work with 3-character terms.

I realize that google can also be used to search the site, but it's awkward, in general, to get google to constrain results to a particular forum topic.

-- Graham

[GraphicArmy]

try this go to google search page and type this in search bar

site:eevblog.com ruu

or

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aeevblog.com+ruu

[EEVblog]

There is no option for this in the settings. So it would require a forum code change. Not something I readily know how to do.

[gwideman]

try this go to google search page and type this in search bar

site:eevblog.com ruu

or

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aeevblog.com+ruu

Yes, that's how to constrain the search to the site. What I was looking for was to constrain results to a particular forum topic.

[Legit-Design]

What I was looking for was to constrain results to a particular forum topic.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/suggestions/add-3-letter-terms-for-forum-search-in-topic/+ruu

Did I miss something?

[gwideman]

What I was looking for was to constrain results to a particular forum topic.

Did I miss something?

Nope. What do ya know, turns out google's site: parameter will digest a URL including path. OK, good workaround! Thanks!

[gwideman]

Probably for Dave again:

For what it's worth, I started a thread about this on the SMF forum:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=519114.0

So far there's agreement that search should find 3-character terms, and that the behavior at eevblog is odd.

A helpful respondent wants to know whether eevblog is set to use an index for search.

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Search_%28admin%29#Search_Method

 It seems to me unlikely that eevblog would not, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

-- Graham