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Idk why I haven't made it a single table and I can't edit the post anymore, so here it is in an easier to understand way:

Query	Current interpretation	Proposed interpretation
`flowing`	Everything that includes `flowing`	Everything that includes `flowing`
`fast -flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`-flowing fast`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`fast-flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`	Everything that includes `fast-flowing`
`"fast-flowing"`	Everything that includes `fast-flowing`	Everything that includes `fast-flowing`

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Current search behaviour:

Query	Interpretation
`flowing`	Everything that includes `flowing`
`fast -flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`-flowing fast`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`fast-flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`"fast-flowing"`	Everything that includes `fast-flowing`

Proposed search behaviour:

Query	Interpretation
`flowing`	Everything that includes `flowing`
`fast -flowing`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`-flowing fast`	Everything that includes `fast` but excludes `flowing`
`fast-flowing`	Everything that includes `fast-flowing`
`"fast-flowing"`	Everything that includes `fast-flowing`

In other words, only treat - as a beginning of a sequence to be excluded if it occurs after a space or at the beginning of a search string. I believe this is a more intuitive and less surprising behaviour.

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