: Please vote for SOLR-218. I'm not aware of any other way to accomplish the : leading wildcard functionality that would be convenient. SOLR-218 is not
Note: votes for issues are definitely the best way to gauge what issues the community thinks are important -- but no matter how many votes an issue gets, if no one volunteers to work on the issue and provide a patch, there's never going to be any progress ... it's just a fact of life. On some occasions a member of the community might have an oportunity to write and contribute a patch for a feature he doesn't personally have a need for just because a lot of other people have asked for it and he thinks it sounds cool ... but that tends to happen fairly rarely. If people have an itch, they need to be proactive about scratching it. -Hoss
