Exact search - wrong description?

[Thomas Lohrum]

When "exact search" is activated i can search for "notes" and find notes containing text "CintaNotes". I think the intention is reverse, that is displaying the status in the menu is wrong.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Well, I can see your point. I'm not a native English speaker and this might be the problem here.
"Exact search" really was itended to mean "Search also inside of words".
So we have two kind of searches: one is slower (because it can't use the full-text index) and returns more results, the other one is faster and returns fewer results (uses the full-text index, but works only from the word boundaries).
So which one of them would you call "exact", really? )
Maybe you could suggest a better name?

[Thomas Lohrum]

Hi Alex,

simple problem - no easy answer.

Possible solutions:

1.) [X] beginning of word only (faster)
- You would have to revers logic (use NOT internally in your code)
- german: Nur Wortanfang (schneller)

2.) [X] text containing searchtext (slower)
- Simple, because renaming text only
- german: Suchtext enthalten (langsamer)

3.) full-text search (slower)
- Simple, because renaming text only
- german: Volltextsuche (langsamer)
- My favorite!

I understand that technically #3 is not a fulltext search in a sense of using the full-text index. However, it is fully understandable out of the box. At least to me

Thomas

[Noddy330]

Alex
Or maybe just "Search also inside of words"
Nod

[CintaNotes Developer]

Bingo Noddy! ))

[Thomas Lohrum]

In that case the german translation would be:
"Suche auch innerhalb von Wörtern" or maybe a little shorter
"Suche auch in Wörtern" but less clear to understand.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Thanks, Thomas!

[ale]

To tell the truth I never liked the term "exact search" because if this search mode was exact, the other was "not exact" i.e. somewhat broken. For the translation in my language ages ago, I chose the term "accurata" which in english would be accurate, precise, I think. It was the best I could pick up at the time.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Here I've outlined how I see the search function in future.
Let's continue discussion there, as it will also define how to rename the menu item.