Search is very strict, and often fails to find anything #45972

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gandalf3 · 2015-09-01T04:20:49+02:00

gandalf3 commented

2015-09-01 04:20:49 +02:00

Search strings with numbers (3D cursor, 3D view) fail to find anything.
This does not happen on the python docs.

In addition partial strings don't appear to work. For example, [searching for "dupli" ]] doesn't find any [ http:*blender.org/manual/modeling/objects/duplication/index.html | dupliobject pages .
The python docs do appear to list partial matches (you may need to scroll down a bit).

[Search strings with numbers ](http://blender.org/manual/search.html?q=3D%20cursor&check_keywords=yes&area=default) (3D cursor, 3D view) fail to find anything. This [does not happen ](https://docs.python.org/3.4/search.html?q=base64) on the python docs. In addition partial strings don't appear to work. For example, [searching for "dupli" ]] doesn't find any [[ http:*blender.org/manual/modeling/objects/duplication/index.html | dupliobject pages ](http:*blender.org/manual/search.html?q=dupli&check_keywords=yes&area=default). The python docs [do appear to list partial matches ](https://docs.python.org/3.4/search.html?q=exp) (you may need to scroll down a bit).

gandalf3 commented

2015-09-01 04:20:49 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

gandalf3 commented

2015-09-01 04:20:49 +02:00

Added subscriber: @gandalf3

catlover2 commented

2015-09-01 04:25:50 +02:00

Added subscriber: @catlover2

Campbell Barton commented

2015-09-01 08:21:09 +02:00

Added subscriber: @ideasman42

Campbell Barton commented

2015-09-01 08:21:09 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Campbell Barton closed this issue

2015-09-01 08:21:09 +02:00

Campbell Barton self-assigned this 2015-09-01 08:21:09 +02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2015-09-01 08:21:09 +02:00

Unless this is blocking our progress, improvements to Sphinx better be reported to them directly.
https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues

Unless this is blocking our progress, improvements to Sphinx better be reported to them directly. https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues

gandalf3 commented

2015-09-01 08:39:27 +02:00

@ideasman42 I thought that since these limitations don't appear on the python docs (these use sphinx too afaik?) this was more likely something specific to the blender manual setup.
As a matter of fact, [partial matches ]] and [ http:*www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_75_3/search.html?q=3D+view | number searches appear to be working in the blender python API docs too.

@ideasman42 I thought that since these limitations don't appear on the python docs (these use sphinx too afaik?) this was more likely something specific to the blender manual setup. As a matter of fact, [partial matches ]] and [[ http:*www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_75_3/search.html?q=3D+view | number searches ](http:*www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_75_3/search.html?q=dupli) appear to be working in the blender python API docs too.

Campbell Barton commented

2015-09-01 09:32:59 +02:00

Ah sorry for closing so quickly then, I thought this was some bug report for Sphinx.

Nevertheless, I looked into this and its seems standard behavior.

Python modules, classes, attributes do substring matches, regular text doesn't.

Eg: if you add this under a title

  .. module:: fooduplibar

This will show up when searching for "dupli".

So this is working the same for our docs and python.org's

See html options: http://sphinx-doc.org/config.html?highlight=html#options-for-html-output

... so keeping this closed since its not something we can tweak on our end easily... afaics.

Ah sorry for closing so quickly then, I thought this was some bug report for Sphinx. Nevertheless, I looked into this and its seems standard behavior. Python modules, classes, attributes do substring matches, regular text doesn't. Eg: if you add this under a title ``` .. module:: fooduplibar ``` This will show up when searching for "dupli". ---- So this is working the same for our docs and `python.org`'s See html options: http://sphinx-doc.org/config.html?highlight=html#options-for-html-output ... so keeping this closed since its not something we can tweak on our end easily... afaics.

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Search is very strict, and often fails to find anything #45972