Benedikt Tutzer

I think overall it would make sense to rework the search mechanism to use a Lucene index to improve speed. A few thoughts on that: - Currently, search is done...

I agree. If done well, this could be a very neat feature and the speed-up would be icing on the cake.

> If users really want an equals instead of contains search, then we can add this later (for example by adding a field alias with no tokenizer). I think the...

> Question: getting rid of current search syntax will break groups that are configured to search based on > > * `searching for a keyword` > * `free search expression`...

> Took the liberty to update this branch to newest main. I will also try to work on your todo list about removing the old search stuff if you don't...

This also affects fulltext search. When linking a proceedings PDF, the whole PDF is indexed. When searching, that PDF will end up in the search results even though the hit...

> Now the question is, is this limitation on purpose? Yes it is and we had quite some discussion when implementing it. The problem here is twofold: 1. We do...

Would be quite an easy solution, question is if people desiring the 'no max hits' functionality would find the branch.

Hm, a setting would be the cleanest solution, but the preferences panes are kind of overloaded already. > I didn't even know there are weighted results. It's not visible to...