785455 - Kuma: Editor - Link lookup is returning the first match instead of best match

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P5)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

It seems to me that the most likely candidate for links, by default, would be the highest-level (rather than deepest) article that contains that name.

For example, if I choose the text "Gecko" and invoke the link editor, the default URL that comes up is, for some reason, "/en-US/docs/Accessibility/AT-APIs/Gecko" rather than what you almost always actually mean: "/en-US/docs/Gecko". This is weird.

Presumably this is because it's choosing the alphabetically first match instead of using some kind of actual logic. Can we use some logic? :)

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

I'm trying to think of how to best accomplish this.  The only thing I can think of hear is keeping the title order, but adding an additional order by shortest slug... ?

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/56516009d38a68cad7666e8b540751dbabe38ba8
fix bug 785455 - most 'simple' term match first

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/c583574cccfa9ec70e91b4790f35e01b403949e3
Merge pull request #561 from darkwing/autosuggest-order-785455

fix bug 785455 - most 'simple' term match first

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This doesn't seem to resolve this problem fully; adding a link to the word "Gecko" is still picking by default a page called "Gecko" nested down in the accessibility tree of the site, instead of simply /en-US/docs/Gecko, which is almost always what people really want.

Comment 4

[ali spivak]

Is this still a feature we need to add??

Comment 5

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

(In reply to ali spivak from comment #4)
> Is this still a feature we need to add??

Yes.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

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