Text search doesn't show results including all partial words as expected

Question

Text search doesn't show results including all partial words as expected

mcmxcdev opened this issue 4 months ago · comments

MCMXC commented 4 months ago

Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

3.0.6

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.0.6 (prod, linux)

Client ID: f964f06935f348e1b58784c8abc9e8de
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 47
Keychain Supported: No

Revision: 18b9f5c

Backup: 1.4.1

Current behaviour

Have notes including the word "colorado" or "colorado in motion"
Search for "colorado in motion"
Only results with "in" will show up, not the full search string

I have 10+ notes including the word "colorado" but none of them show up in the search results, not even "colorado in motion".

(This is my specific use case, I assume it can be reproduced for other search terms as well)

Expected behaviour

Full search strings separated by whitespace should be found as part of notes search results

Logs

No response

MCMXC commented 3 months ago

Bump

Henry Heino · Answer 1 · Mon May 13 2024 11:23:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you for reporting this!

We recently had a report of nonbreaking spaces causing issues with search. A partial fix has been merged but is still unreleased. See the pull request for details.

Henry Heino · Answer 2 · Thu May 23 2024 13:32:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The fix has been released in version 3.0.8. If this is indeed the same issue, then,

making a change to one of the notes that should appear in the search results, and
searching for colorado

should cause the just-edited note to appear in search results.

MCMXC · Answer 3 · Thu May 23 2024 22:09:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I had a look at the newest version and searching for "colorado" finds it (just like before I think), but the issue remains that searching for "colorado in motion" (which is a company name) still doesn't result in a matched file including that wording.

github-actions · Answer 4 · Sun Jun 23 2024 00:02:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there, it looks like there has been no activity on this issue recently. Has the issue been fixed, or does it still require the community's attention? If you require support or are requesting an enhancement or feature then please create a topic on the Joplin forum. This issue may be closed if no further activity occurs. You may comment on the issue and I will leave it open. Thank you for your contributions.

github-actions · Answer 5 · Wed Jul 24 2024 00:02:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there, it looks like there has been no activity on this issue recently. Has the issue been fixed, or does it still require the community's attention? If you require support or are requesting an enhancement or feature then please create a topic on the Joplin forum. This issue may be closed if no further activity occurs. You may comment on the issue and I will leave it open. Thank you for your contributions.

Henry Heino · Answer 6 · Wed Jul 24 2024 00:11:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I had a look at the newest version and searching for "colorado" finds it (just like before I think), but the issue remains that searching for "colorado in motion" (which is a company name) still doesn't result in a matched file including that wording.

One possibility is that the note needs to be re-indexed (if this was caused by the issue #10417 fixed). Making a small change to the note should cause this to happen.

If that doesn't help, does starting the search with a / help? (For example, /colorado in motion, rather than colorado in motion). For context, / causes Joplin to use a different (slower) search mode.