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diff --git a/issues/incremental-search.gmi b/issues/incremental-search.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..558eeb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/issues/incremental-search.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Incremental search + +* tags: enhancement, web ui + +We could implement "incremental search" in the web UI. Incremental search is a real-time search feature in which results matching a query are immediately rendered on the page. This is like how Helm and similar work on Emacs. +=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_search Incremental search on Wikipedia + +According to the above Wikipedia article, Google implemented incremental search under the name "Google Instant", but later discontinued the service. I wonder why. + +For incremental search with Xapian, special considerations with the query parser apply. +=> https://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html#partially-entered-query-matching Considerations for partially entered query matching with Xapian's query parser + +Incremental search would incur a significantly higher bandwidth cost than regular delimited search. It should be strictly optional. The page should fall back to delimited search when it is disabled (say, when javascript is disabled). |