Is there a way to search for a phrase?

[AG31]

I'm looking for a post where @StillStunned said something like "a tale to be told." If I search for it in AH, with him as the member, I get all posts containing any one of those words.

Also, the list seems to be in chronological order until it begins to be mixed up.

 

[BeechLeaf]

I believe if you enclose it in quotes, it looks for the multi-word phrase. The results highlight all the individual words (and some that just begin with 'a', weirdly), but all the results contain the phrase. I looked for "a tale of" and found that, even where it wasn't visible in the displayed results, the full post actually contained those words. (There was nothing for "a tale to".)

I've never understood the order of listing of results.

 

[AG31]

I believe if you enclose it in quotes, it looks for the multi-word phrase. The results highlight all the individual words (and some that just begin with 'a', weirdly), but all the results contain the phrase. I looked for "a tale of" and found that, even where it wasn't visible in the displayed results, the full post actually contained those words. (There was nothing for "a tale to".)

I've never understood the order of listing of results.

I assume it finds the multi word phrase, when it's enclosed in quotes, but it's useless if the hits on the individual words in the phrase rise to the hundreds.

 

[BeechLeaf]

But they don't. Looking for "a tale of", in quotes, brings up twelve posts by StillStunned, and they all contain that exact phrase. The highlighting is misleading - every use of "of" is bolded - but it doesn't show the hundreds or thousands of posts containing "of". Ignore the highlighting.

 

[AG31]

But they don't. Looking for "a tale of", in quotes, brings up twelve posts by StillStunned, and they all contain that exact phrase. The highlighting is misleading - every use of "of" is bolded - but it doesn't show the hundreds or thousands of posts containing "of". Ignore the highlighting.

Well, most of the ones in the search had the phrase, but this one didn't. Anyway, I couldn't find it with ctrl/f,
And now I can't reproduce the search that resulted in 92 hits.

 

[AG31]

Hey, @StillStunned, can you help me out here? I'm looking for a place where you were describing narration that was not immersive, where the narrator had some distance, where they were dealing with "a tale to be told." I thought that's what you said.

 

[BeechLeaf]

When I click into the comment beginning 'So far I'm enjoying', StillStunned is quoting an earlier comment of theirs, containing the words 'it will be a tale of adventure, betrayal and bloody murder.' I don't know how "find" commands treat quotations of previous comments, but "a tale of" is there in that comment, albeit in a quoted part.

 

[AG31]

When I click into the comment beginning 'So far I'm enjoying', StillStunned is quoting an earlier comment of theirs, containing the words 'it will be a tale of adventure, betrayal and bloody murder.' I don't know how "find" commands treat quotations of previous comments, but "a tale of" is there in that comment, albeit in a quoted part.

Thanks for your efforts.