Support for Fuzzy Searching Strings #2028 rebased against current master branch to fix merge conflict

[philwolstenholme]

Summary

This is @StehlikC's pull request for Support for Fuzzy Searching Strings (#2028) from 2014/2015 rebased against the current master branch of Chosen. It introduces fuzzy search to Chosen.

The merge conflict in #2028 has been cleared up by merging @StehlikC's changes to get_search_regex with the changes made in ed0c848c5e5065b3aad22496d01464d4e4935de1.

References

This is a rebase of #2028

See also:

• #858
• #867
• #1037
• #2028

[philwolstenholme]

A client requested that we added fuzzy search to a field that is using Chosen. I'm using a patched version based on #2028 at the moment, but it would be great if this could get into the master branch of Chosen. I've rebuilt the jQuery version with Grunt and the examples in public/index.html all seem to be functioning. Are there any more thorough tests I could run to help get this PR merged in?

[mariusa]

@koenpunt Would it be possible to please merge this? It would solve multiple open issues for multiple words search. Thanks!

[eterry1388]

Can we get this merged in? What is it waiting on?

[Dave-Smith]

Is there a plan to merge this? It would be super helpful for us.

[JoseWhite]

why wasn't this merged? need it badly

[bhartvigsen]

@philwolstenholme Hey how does this work?

I've built your PR and instantiate my chosen like:

$('select').chosen({search_fuzzy: true});

It just doesn't work. Am I missing a step?