Re: Bug querying implementation for report-emacs-bug

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:57:30 +0100
> 
> It all seems to work pretty well, except that the querying on the server
> side is somehow a bit, well, sloppy.  For example, when I search for
> "column", I can find some bugs including
> 
>   #971 [n|  |  ] [emacs] 23.0.60; next-line, previous-line and
>    goal-column
> 
> When I search for "next-line previous-line goal-column" (without the
> quotes), I find *nothing*...
> 
> When I search for "next-line, previous-line and goal-column" I get 4
> bugs again.
> 
> Why does that comma and the "and" make any difference?

Sounds like the search engine at debbugs uses a literal search, and
does not support a list of keywords.  Maybe the debbugs folds could
fix that, because without that the user will need to run a separate
search for every keyword.