example: I want to find out about what people have written about portage's ROOT variable. I search for "ROOT=". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: search for "ROOT=" with the quotes Actual Results: search returns hits for "root", not "ROOT=", such as "alsa runs as root but not for normal users" Expected Results: Posts containing the exact sequence of characters "ROOT=", because I typed it as a quoted phrase. People might also want to search for 'grep "/dev"', and so forth. It's probably ok to first use the index for the base word without punctuation, as the search currently does, but the engine should then cull the results using a full unindexed search for the literal phrase given.
Re-assigning since forum-mods@ can not do anything about this at present time.