id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
617323873,MDU6SXNzdWU2MTczMjM4NzM=,766,Enable wildcard-searches by default,2181410,open,0,,,2,2020-05-13T10:14:48Z,2021-03-05T16:35:21Z,,NONE,,"Hi Simon.

It seems that datasette currently has wildcard-searches disabled by default (along with the boolean search-options, NEAR-queries and more, and despite the docs). If I try out the search-url provided in the [docs](https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/full_text_search.html#the-table-page-and-table-view-api) (https://fara.datasettes.com/fara/FARA_All_ShortForms?_search=manafort), it does not handle wildcard-searches, and I'm unable to make it work on my datasette-instance.

I would argue that wildcard-searches is such a standard query, that it should be enabled by default. Requiring ""_searchmode=raw"" when using prefix-searches seems unnecessary. Plus: What happens to non-ascii searches when using ""_searchmode=raw""? Is the ""escape_fts""-function from datasette.utils ignored?


Thanks!

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