Chat Transcript Viewer Search doesn't do partial matching

[nep]

Typing into the search box at the top of the Chat Transcripts window, I find that typing in only a partial word brings back no results.

Most application-based text searches will match partial words, including iTunes and Spotlight and Firefox. So I think that it's expected behavior -- I'm torn as to whether this is a defect or a bug.

To test this, use a long word in a chat, then try typing in the first few characters of it. The expected chat will not appear.

[cbarrett]

partial string searching: Matching of the terms in a query string to indexed terms, with implied wildcard characters at the start and end of each query term. Each term is matched separately. Search Kit does not currently support partial string searching as an option, but a client application can provide it by adding wildcard operators (asterisks) around each term before handing a query off to Search Kit. See also search.

(from  Search Kit Programming Guide: Glossary).

[jas8522]

Changing this to enhancement with dev review - depends on if they wish to add the asterix at the end of the search term or not.

[ronald_poi]

This is very important. Sometimes, for example, people write me their phone numbers. Later, when i ask myself "what was it's number?"... i began typing the first 3 digits but nothing comes out. It's even worst for numbers than letters.

[jas8522]

It does seem like a good plan to add the asterisks in as most search functionality in OS X works like this (iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, etc.)

[evands]

(In [25368]) Automatically make search terms wildcard-matching if they don't specify a wildcard pattern. Fixes #6364

[zacw]

Removing 'Transcript Viewer' component.