Allow search on forum to accept smaller than 4 char strings

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Allow search on forum to accept smaller than 4 char strings

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Hi,

When I need to search small things like GOG, RSO, ... the search or advenced search of the forum returns nothing. It is a pain as a simple forum user, and an real pain as a moderator (because most people just don't use search functions, and 80% of moderators job is being a frontend to search function :mrgreen: ).

So I need to be able to search 3 char strings, and if possibly down to 2.
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Re: Allow esearch on forum to accept smaller than 4 char strings

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I looked already, why this changed half a year ago, cause AFAIK it is set to 3 and I use Dave's workaround. :)
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Doh I had forgotten I could do that. Really ageing sucks
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Re: Allow esearch on forum to accept smaller than 4 char strings

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That trick is also very useful to search into the FFFs, for example:
https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Aw ... blog+ssilk
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Re: Allow esearch on forum to accept smaller than 4 char strings

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Yeah, that's already what I do, I even think I've been suggested that on this forum at some time :)
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