Search needs to support multiple words

[kerrishotts]

Right now, if you search for "Paul Abraham", you are searching for that exact phrase. Ideally, this needs to turn into either an AND or OR search that would return results containing either all verses with Paul AND Abraham in it, or all verses with either Paul OR Abraham.

The problem is presenting such an advanced view to the user. There's no simple way to display such a search to the end user, and so it might just boil down to some characters in the string, such as:

• Paul Abraham = Paul OR Abraham
• "Paul Abraham" = The exact phrase
• +Paul +Abraham = (AND) Paul AND Abraham
• Paul%Abraham = Paul, followed by Abraham somewhere in the verse

Using more search terms also brings in to play the necessity of desirability of highlighting those terms (if not the necessity).

[kerrishotts]

As of build #3900, this feature is implemented. Here's how it works:

• "Father Abraham" is an exact search.
• Father%Abraham is a keyword search where Father must be found, and Abraham must be found following Father.
• Father +Abraham (or Father .Abraham) is an AND: Father AND Abraham must be found, though order is not important.
• Father -Abraham (or Father !Abraham) is a NAND: Father must be found, but Abraham must not be present.
• Father Abraham is an OR: Father OR Abraham must be found.

Keep in mind that the search term is not truly /parsed/ out, rather certain characters in certain positions generate the behaviour. Do not expect the following to work as you may expect:

• "Father Abraham" +"Jesus Christ": The search would be an exact phrase search for Father Abraham +Jesus Christ. Obviously not in the Bible.
• Father +Abraham Jesus is going to render as A AND B OR C, not A AND (B OR C), but rather (A AND B) OR C.
• "Father Abraham" +Jesus will not use exact matching at all, but rather be interpreted as A OR (B AND C)