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by smhenderson 3674 days ago
Good to know, I was coming to say something about smart pointers in C++ and a few other things I tried with no results.

Not sure how you're doing the querying but when I dropped the "smart" from "C++ smart pointers" it did return a result. Does every word in the search have to match then? I'd have thought, similar to Google, that it would return results where at least some of the search keywords matched even if they all don't.

Anyway, it looks like a good start. Even for people who already know a lot about programming it should be really useful for those times when you know what you need but just can't quite remember the full syntax of something.

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Yep, that has to do with the full-text search engine (Solr). There's definitely some optimizing to do, I definitely don't want additional words throwing off the search!