elasticsearch/elasticsearch.github.com — Issue #144: Highlighting docs imply "_all" works
Author: nickdunn
Created: 2012-02-20 14:36:31+00:00
State: open

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/highlighting.html

Two of these examples imply that highlighting works with the `_all` field. Using ES 0.19.0.RC2 it seems this is not the case.

> [lukasvlcek]: _all field is not IMO good candidate for highlighting

The docs should be updated both to replace the _all examples, and perhaps a note to the effect that using _all is not recommended.