Comment 2 for bug 1265889

It seems quite clear that the client should move on to other locations when the list of search terms to match gets empty after matching a directory name. But what should happen if there aren't enough matching items to reach the maximum result count? Should it then enter those fully matched directories and return items from them?

In a way this is also a response to http://forum.dcbase.org/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=695

Google doesn't support wildcards/regexp and it's still quite widely used, so making things harder for the users doesn't feel like the preferred alternative to go with (given the issues with the current implementation).

The worst searching case I can think of is that when the user wants to find items where the title consists of plain number(s) or some really common word(s) that match lots of shared items. Preferring matches where the search terms are found from the beginning of the item name should help with this. The client could check that the order of the matched words is the same and that they are matched right after each others (words can be repeated in the name though). Word separators among the shared items may differ so including those directly in the search string may not be enough.