Now that I think about it, does the prefix search
still work with that hack?
By work I mean you should be able to select one of the entries that pops
down under the search box as you type and it takes you to that article.
No, with the hack in place clicking on one of the drop down search
suggestions takes you to the search results page for that value, not
to an article page. That _is_ perhaps what I want. I want Search to
take you to a search results page, so that a user may choose which
page he wants.
Is the drop down list of search suggestions generated from a list of
the wiki's page titles? Hm, I guess it is. I had not realized that. So
how does one search the wiki's page texts? This whole search feature
seems to be designed to take a user to a destination article directly
whenever possible. I'm not sure that is best for my wiki because that
page may not always be the one a user wants and without the search
results page, how will he find the one he does want? By doing another
search with more search terms? Hm, maybe we can all get used to this
and maybe it will just work.
Argggg, and trying to change this designed in behavior may not be so
easy for a chiefly point and click guy like me.
So I may decide to use the two button ('Go' + 'Search') Search box
that I get when I set $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch to false, instead,
especially if this hack is not going to work in future.
Thanks for the tips.
Roger