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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When you know the exact word of interest, the search is unnecessary. You must wait a couple seconds to search, move the finger from the keyboard to the top of the screen, tap the search result.

This is not a "bug", but I use Wiktionary as a language learning aid at home (make a lot of queries while reading) and abroad (quickly look up an occasional word from a sign) so if a shorter interaction is possible, it would be convenient.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Type abc
• The search starts
• Enter is pressed before the search completes
• If the article abc does not exist: no change (searching continues normally)
• If the article abc exists: the search is interrupted

@gouri-panda @MohitMaliFtechiz Does that sounds a good idea?

@kelson42 Yes

To inform the user that the search can be interrupted, what about a message above the rotating spinner, or in a toast message, or as a tip in the Settings...

💡 Tip: Press Enter to stop searching and try to match the exact article title

@gouri-panda @MohitMaliFtechiz Does that sounds a good idea?

sounds good to me.

This is basically the same problem as https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/issues/748 wirh kiwix-serve

@MohitMaliFtechiz Can we try to implement this now? Seems pretty easy.