76073 - quicksearch: + and - prefixes doesn't work in IE or opera

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P1)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

+ is ignored as a quicksearch prefix ("+foo" searches for bugs with "+foo" in 
product, summary, etc).  According to the documentation, it's supposed to 
search in only the summary field.

Btw, the documentation gives an example of "+brow  does not find all bugs in 
the  Browser  product".  This is confusing, because the example says what 
doesn't happen without saying what does happen.  I think the example should be 
replaced with 'For example, use "+news" to find bugs with "news" in the summary 
without also finding all bugs in the MailNews product'.)

Comment 1

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

"..." is used to escape all enclosed characters, i.e. treat them literally.
Thus "+foo" with explicit quotes means ``find the bugs with the substring `+foo'
in the summary''. If entered without the quotes, "+foo" works fine for me.
Maybe the documentation needs to be improved to make this clear.

You are right that the +brow example should be improved. Sean Richardson had
promised to write down some comments "about the presentation fo the usage
information", too.

Comment 2

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

The previous comment was inaccurate: "+foo" means ``find the bugs with the
substring `+foo' in the summary, product, component, status whiteboard, or as a
keyword.'' You can use +"foo" for the desired summary-only semantics.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Since you (afranke) said it worked for you, I tried a few more browsers to see 
if that's why we're getting different results.  It looks like "+brow" (without 
the quotes) works on Mozilla but not on IE and Opera.  Updating summary.

Comment 4

[Sean Richardson]

Annoying but true: some users may expect "+" to be treated as a modifier,
not as a literal character, when inside "". 

Google treats the phrase (when enclosed in quotes) "art of peace" as if
it were "art peace"; to actually match "art of peace", one must specify
"art +of peace" to ensure that the stopword "of" isn't discarded. Not sure
how applicable that is here, though. 

Perhaps the best approach is to document how '+"foo"' and '"+foo"' differ.

Split off the documentation request into Bug 76392, "Review and update 
quicksearch documentation".

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Searching for `book -mark' is also broken in IE and Opera (I get zero hits).

Comment 6

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Ok, now that I have access to IE5 I can confirm that this bug exists. Accepting.

Comment 7

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Attachment: fix (2 lines): use str.charAt(0) instead of str[0]

Comment 8

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Attachment: fix (2 lines): use str.charAt(0) instead of str[0]

Comment 9

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

The attaches small fix seems to make both Netscape and IE happy.
Targetting at 2.14 because QuickSearch doesn't work properly in IE without it.

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

r= justdave
checked in.

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving to Bugzilla product