Function "->" is not returned for Clojure search

[dottedmag]

How to reproduce:

1. Go to devdocs.io
2. Enable Clojure documentation
3. Search for ->

Expected output:

1. -> is found

Actual result:

1. -> is not found.

Additional info:

Seems to be specific to this particular function, as - + ->> -' are returned when searched for.

[beaucarnes]

This seems to be an issue with the search indexing. The -> entry can still be accessed but it just is not shown in search. I'm still not sure exactly what the issue is, though.

Searching for . and .. have the same issue.

[allentiak]

From what I see, all the examples you mention are "special characters". Chances are they are not correctly escaped when searching?

[dottedmag]

->> works fine, so it's not escaping.

- and > are not special characters for Clojure.

[mberube]

Just in case anyone is curious as to why this happens...

The -> string is part of SEPARATORS_REGEXP in searcher.coffee ( /#|::|:-|->|$(?=\w)|-(?=\w)|:(?=\w)|\ [/-&]\ |:\ |\ /g )

When normalizing the query string is equal to a SEPARATOR, it is ignored. So according to the code, -> will never return anything (search is considered invalid)