Thread:Extension talk:SphinxSearch/Some pages arent found - and the "second" search is different than the first one/reply (5)

Let me add that the intent of what Special:Search is supposed to do is unclear to me when a third-party search engine like Sphinx is in use. It's possible that the authors of MediaWiki intended Special:Search to behave as it always did regardless of third party search engines, third party search engines are only supposed to work with the quick search box. Or, perhaps there is something the author of a search extension is supposed to do to change the default behavior of the Special:Search page, and that work was not done for the Sphinx MediaWiki extension.

I would have expected that the two search boxes should work the same, and the user would have to intentionally choose alternate settings to get back to the "default" style of searching the wiki. At a minimum, I would expect that it should be possible to conduct a full text search using sphinx from Special:Search, but I cannot figure that out. My wiki users also assume this, as they keep asking me why the searching on Special:Search doesn't find any pages like they are used to finding with the quick search box.

I would very much like to make Special:Search behave, by default, exactly as the quick search box behaves.