Author: wikibugs
Description:
If the users have the Match Word that will increase the usability.
How? if a user wanted to replace the word 'the' user can select match case and provide the replace word and click on replace all. If the text contain words like "together" the part in the word get replace.
If the user have the match word, these types of problems can be minimized.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search: Add option to search whole words | mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor | master | +12 -1 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T65665 WikiEditor: Search and replace (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | TheDJ | T24478 Dialogs: Search and Replace : Suggesting to add "Match Word" option |
This option should be rather easy to implement: prepend and append \w to the generated regex.
mhershberger wrote:
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
Change 476031 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; owner: TheDJ):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Search: Add option to search whole words
Change 476031 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; owner: TheDJ):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Search: Add option to search whole words
Change 476031 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Search: Add option to search whole words