Today I changed the forum mysql database to permit 2 letter searches:
[mysqld]
ft_min_word_len=2
I rebuilt the mysql search indexes as well.
Then, I added a "quick search bar" at the top of each page.
I have tested this and two letter searches are working; but it's not perfect, because special characters like dashes seem to not count toward the word length.
This means, for example, these searches work:
grep -vi
ps -ef
However, these searches fail:
grep -v
grep -i
netstat -a
If anyone is an expert in MySQL and knows how to get around this limitation without setting the min word length to one, please let me know. I'm not inclined to set the fulltext search index to a minimum word length of one.
Cheers.