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Minimum search term length

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Dorcas

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Is it possible to adjust the minimum search term length from 3 letters to 2? I'm considering buying a new handgun and logged on today to do a little research. Unfortunately I wanted to research S&W model 66's, Cz's and Kimbers (especially type II Kimbers), because each of these had a term less then three letters, I couldn't do a search on them.

Thanks.

bkm..
 
Dorcas-
Not possible-
The TFL Search is real efficient because of the way it's designed. The drawback is the size of the files. They're enormous. Default for the search function is 4 letters. We lowered it to 3. If we drop it to 2, the files just become unwieldy.

This has come up before and it's been demonstrated that, with a bit of ingenuity, one can generally focus down on almost any topic.
Sorry for the hassle.
Rich
 
Thanks Rich and PF, I appreciate the response. I read the other thread and see the problems associated with shorter terms.

Thanks again.

bkm...
 
States - like [WA] or (WA)

I understand the reason on the indexing, so I guess I'm looking for a work-around from greater minds than mine.

Sometimes I am trying to find a thread that I remember something about or want to make sure that I'm not starting a duplicate (usually on a slightly out of date topic). I find that I am frustrated in my attempts to search for states. A lot of subject lines include states in parenthesis or brackets. This would make the search 4 characters, but those special characters appear to be excluded from the search string. Any ideas?
 
Gene -
In that case, I would either search for the full name of the state, the city, or the county.
 
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