Check if javascript is enabled. I once thought there were search issues
once when it turned out that it was noscript blocking the search feature.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Michael Droettboom <
[email protected]> wrote:

John Slavin wrote on the matplotlib-users mailing list:

Hi,

For a while now I've been having problems with searching on the matplotlib
web page. Specifically, terms that should produce results in a search come
up empty. Attached is a screenshot illustrating how typing 'codex contour'
in the search box comes up empty though, obviously there are several code
examples using contour. Anyone know what the problem is?

​Regards,
Jon​

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Not the case here. Some searches work fine, others, such as codex contour give no results. I think there may be a limit on the number of hits for a given word in the index (just a guess...)

Hmm... figuring out how sphinx' little search engine works is proving to be difficult...

Amended your statement a bit 😈

Hmm... figuring out how sphinx' little search engine works is proving to be difficult...

This might be related (but unfortunately not very helpful): sphinx-doc/sphinx#1918

Is this problem still present? For example, searching for codex contour on the devdocs web site returns 26 hits.
Sphinx version: 1.5.2

Edit: just tested on the current non-devdocs web site. Searching goes indeed forever, without returning anything…
Sphinx version: 1.5.1 (=> seems like 1.5.2 somehow solved the problem. Should this issue be closed?)

This issue should be closed :)

Does this mean I should rebuild a bunch of the docs?

I don't know but currently, the small search engine on the web site seems to struggle to find most of the relevant pages to a simple query. For example, simply searching contour returns 4 pages after 2 min (and still seems to be running!) and codex contour returns zero result after several minutes of searching.

The same queries on the devdocs version return respectively 75 and 26 results in a few seconds... One thing that appears to have changed is the Sphinx version (1.5.1 -> 1.5.2), but I don't if it is related to that.

There's an error on the search page: "TypeError: suffix is undefined searchtools.js:543:96"; this doesn't show up on the devdocs version.

I think the warning was fixed by #8086; not sure if that's what fixed the search, but it might have.

I'm rebuilding the docs for 2.0 now from 2.0.0-doc. If the search works locally, I will deploy the re-built docs

http://matplotlib.org/search.html?q=codex+contour&check_keywords=yes&area=default <- now gives 24 results almost immediately.