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Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode:

  ~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike
could be the equivalent of the old:

  run sprint hurdle +nike


You still can do that, you just have to use "quotes" "around" "the" "words" instead of +putting +the +plus +sign +before +each +word. This just lets you get that type of search for every word easier.


Isn't

    run sprint hurdle "nike"
what you want?


Yes, and of course that works fine. It's just the ease of using an inline prefix to modify the term, rather than enclosing it in quotes. We're mourning the loss of the +.


Yes please allow something like this, mixing verbatim with fuzzier search functionality is powerful.




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