[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Feature Requests-796832 ] Word query should show all words starting with certain text

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Feature Requests item #796832, was opened at 2003-08-28 20:33
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Category: pop3proxy
Group: None
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Harri Pesonen (fuerte)
Assigned to: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Summary: Word query should show all words starting with certain text 

Initial Comment:
Word query should show all words starting with certain
text if the user adds * in the end

For example: url:great*

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>Comment By: Harri Pesonen (fuerte)
Date: 2003-09-01 19:35

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Thanks! A limit of 100 would have been better, though.

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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2003-09-01 12:10

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This is done, and should have just squeaked into 1.0a5.

It works as described above.  The one side-effect is that if a 
token ends with "*", then you can't search for it alone any 
more (you'll still get the result, but may also get other words, 
unless there are lots of them (see below), then you might 
not).  If this becomes a problem, then we'll have to either 
escape '*' (ugly), or have a separate 'wildcard' search.

It didn't look very good when there were too many results - 
and it could take a long time, and on this machine at least, 
crash, if there were too many.  So there's a hard limit of 10 
results that will be displayed, along with the number of results 
that matched, but aren't displayed.  If this bothers you or 
you want to increase the limit, it's a one line change that 
should be easy to find.  If people ask for it, then this can 
become an exposed option (again, probably via a special 
wildcard search).

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