Issue #2572689 by jhodgdon, rumburak, ifrik, yoroy, Bojhan, longwave, bendev:...

Issue #2572689 by jhodgdon, rumburak, ifrik, yoroy, Bojhan, longwave, bendev: Update the UI text for the Search module

core/modules/search/search.module

@@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ function search_help($route_name, RouteMatchInterface $route_match) {
       $output .= '<dd>' . t('By default, the Search module only supports exact keyword matching in content searches. You can modify this behavior by installing a language-specific stemming module for your language (such as <a href=":porterstemmer_url">Porter Stemmer</a> for American English), which allows words such as walk, walking, and walked to be matched in the Search module. Another approach is to use a third-party search technology with stemming or partial word matching features built in, such as <a href=":solr_url">Apache Solr</a> or <a href=":sphinx_url">Sphinx</a>. There are also contributed modules that provide additional search pages. These and other <a href=":contrib-search">search-related contributed modules</a> can be downloaded by visiting Drupal.org.', array(':contrib-search' => 'https://www.drupal.org/project/project_module?f[2]=im_vid_3%3A105', ':porterstemmer_url' => 'https://www.drupal.org/project/porterstemmer', ':solr_url' => 'https://www.drupal.org/project/apachesolr', ':sphinx_url' => 'https://www.drupal.org/project/sphinx')) . '</dd>';
       $output .= '</dl>';
       return $output;
-
-    case 'entity.search_page.collection':
-      return '<p>' . t('The search engine maintains an index of words found in your site\'s content. To build and maintain this index, a correctly configured <a href=":cron">cron maintenance task</a> is required. Indexing behavior can be adjusted using the settings below.', array(':cron' => \Drupal::url('system.status'))) . '</p>';
   }
 }
 

core/modules/search/src/SearchPageListBuilder.php

@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
       '#type' => 'details',
       '#title' => $this->t('Indexing progress'),
       '#open' => TRUE,
+      '#description' => $this->t('Only items in the index will appear in search results. To build and maintain the index, a correctly configured <a href=":cron">cron maintenance task</a> is required.', array(':cron' => \Drupal::url('system.cron_settings'))),
     );
     $form['status']['status'] = array('#markup' => $status);
     $form['status']['wipe'] = array(
@@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
       '#title' => $this->t('Number of items to index per cron run'),
       '#default_value' => $search_settings->get('index.cron_limit'),
       '#options' => $items,
-      '#description' => $this->t('The maximum number of items indexed in each pass of a <a href=":cron">cron maintenance task</a>. If necessary, reduce the number of items to prevent timeouts and memory errors while indexing. Some search page types may have their own setting for this.', array(':cron' => \Drupal::url('system.status'))),
+      '#description' => $this->t('The maximum number of items indexed in each run of the <a href=":cron">cron maintenance task</a>. If necessary, reduce the number of items to prevent timeouts and memory errors while indexing. Some search page types may have their own setting for this.', array(':cron' => \Drupal::url('system.cron_settings'))),
     );
     // Indexing settings:
     $form['indexing_settings'] = array(
@@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
       '#default_value' => $search_settings->get('index.minimum_word_size'),
       '#min' => 1,
       '#max' => 1000,
-      '#description' => $this->t('The number of characters a word has to be to be indexed. A lower setting means better search result ranking, but also a larger database. Each search query must contain at least one keyword that is this size (or longer).')
+      '#description' => $this->t('The minimum character length for a word to be added to the index. Searches must include a keyword of at least this length.'),
     );
     $form['indexing_settings']['overlap_cjk'] = array(
       '#type' => 'checkbox',