As per https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/309, can we also add in this functionality: Field Word Boundary? This module allows trimming to word boundaries, not just sentences or paragraphs. Seems like a logical addition to core...
(I think the problem this solves is most often seen when the trim length is quite short (e.g. 100 characters) and the first sentence is longer than this - this means that nothing gets output).
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Worth mentioning as it was in zulip chat by @yorkshirepudding I just tested and the two work together without issue as long as you don't use the "Exclude comments from Content...
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There is also Node Comments Search - this searches the node and all comments (default search is node and first page of comments) as part of the content search. Izzy's module above is a separate...
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I have created a new module comment_search
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