Increase Snippet's Truncate number to higher value, or remove that if possible from search.json

[arunshariharan]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I am writing posts that are longer than 300 words, but the search functionality limits the snippet to truncate:300, which means only 1/3rd of my content in each post is searchable.

Describe the solution you'd like

Can we remove the truncate option form search.json or increase the limit around 1000?

Describe alternatives you've considered

If it is not feasible due to optimization concerns, I was thinking of modifying the search.json locally myself for my build (create assets/js/data/search.json), but unfortunately jekyll does not pickup the changes and replace it while building. I am happy to know if there are any other options to go about it, if changing this is not feasible.

Additional context

[cotes2020]

Hi @arunshariharan,

If you want full text search, you can actually remove the filtertruncate. I used the filter in the project to prevent too much post content from being displayed in the search results (in fact, this can be restricted by CSS, and it has already been implemented).

In addition, I checked the latest version of Simple-Jekyll-Search. The docs also listed the usage of full-text search. I will upgrade the version of it later. Thanks for your report :)

[arunshariharan]

@cotes2020 Thanks so much for this! Can't wait for the update to roll out :)

Also if I remove the truncate locally it works fine locally. But when I push to github, wouldn't it pull the latest gem and compile that anyway? So all changes locally I do will be lost when I push to github right? Is there a way to override this?

[cotes2020]

Until the next gem release, you can temporarily overwrite the contents of the theme's gem with a file of the same name. See: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults

[arunshariharan]

Thanks so much 😄