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The full-text indexer doesn't match text less than 3 characters. 
 
I've altered the code such that we test at the top of filter(): 
 
        # we can't match anything if search_matches is empty 
        if search_matches == {}: 
            return [] 
 
then the test later in the code, which is "search_matches is not 
None", is untouched.