Simple spell corrector in help doc search

[lsheta]

I think the current search bar looks for matches containing the exact string searched for (ex: docs for "Organizations" will show up if I search "Organization" but not if I search "Organzation" or "Organizationss"). Is this a complex problem to solve? Obviously not urgent or anything. Just an idea that might improve usability of the docs.

[susannasiebert]

Read the docs supports a fuzzy search syntax. This requires the users to type their search in in the format search_term~N where N is a number indicating how close to the search term the match is allowed to be, e.g. searching organizationss~2 returns results for organizations (https://civic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/search.html?q=organizationss%7E2&check_keywords=yes&area=default#). However, I haven't found a way to make this the default behavior of the search without the user having to enter this special syntax.

More info on the supported search syntaxes can be found here.

[lsheta]

Thanks for the additional information. I didn't know that fuzzy searches were supported.