Small modification to allow searching through the entire word (not just the beginning).

[shazami]

I made a small modification in the code that made the search feature much more useful for my team.

Please see if it is at all useful for you and I welcome any feedback.

[Leksat]

+1 for this change

[fesplugas]

+1 for this change

[rbudiharso]

+1 for this

[ribeiropaulor]

+1 for this change

[mikery]

+1. It would be nice if this were implemented as a boolean option, where setting fullTextSearch to True would cause this behaviour.

[sokai]

+1 for this changes, too! - And +1 for adding the setting/option (i.e.) "fullTextSearch" (like mikery said in the last comment). please

[archon810]

Can this be merged into head if it works well please?

[pfiller]

I am actually pretty opposed to making this be the default search behavior in Chosen. I believe that, in most cases, a user does not expect to see the middle of words match. When I start a search with "un", I do not expect to see Burundi, Hungary and Tunisa. If I wanted those results, I would type for those results.

However, there is clearly a fair amount of demand for this solution and I would welcome a pull request adding it as an option (NOT the default). There are situations where matching the middle of words could make sense (complicated product / medical names have been cited as good examples).

In the meantime, closing this request. Thanks for the discussion, @ALL.

[pfiller]

#299 actually does this well. Looking at that now.

[archon810]

@pfiller Whoops, turns out this is not the merge I was looking for in the first place. I was looking for the one that fixed searches for words surrounded by parentheses. Like (foo bar) - foo couldn't be found last time I checked.