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Zulip mobile apps for Android and iOS.
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Fuzzy keyword search needed #5867

Closed fdenzer closed 5 months ago

fdenzer commented 6 months ago

The docs (for web?) have no mention of glob/wildcard or regex search. As a user, i need to find words starting or ending with my search keyword. https://zulip.com/help/search-for-messages#keyword-search

Example, german words: Fräs is searched, as a want to match fräse, fräsvorrichtung, oberfräse, frästisch as well as tischfräse. Currently, I am going through a dictionary by hand to search. This is unbearable.

  1. Ideally, the full text search is fuzzy, in at least using contains instead of equals.
  2. Alternatively: Having placeholders, like * or .* would work, but a hint in UI would also be useful, because nobody RTFMs.
fdenzer commented 6 months ago

PS Should I duplicate this issue to zulip/zulip, as it affects both mobile and web UI?

gnprice commented 5 months ago

@fdenzer Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, please open a discussion either in zulip/zulip or in the #feedback channel on chat.zulip.org. This behavior is primarily driven by the Zulip server, not clients, so those would be the places to discuss it.

(The existing behavior is more complex than "equals", but one of those venues will be a better place to go into detail.)