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Automatic clean search field (feature request)
Right now if I did a search and hit the magnifying glass icon, the search field opens with the word I last searched in it, and to clear it you have to hit the X. I almost never need to search again for the word I just searched, or to just modify it for a new search, so this is very inconvinient. I was wondering, would it be possible to have an option to make the magnifying glass open a clean search field, without the previously searched word?
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I think you should be able to achieve this if you go to Settings / GUI Tuning / Search / Pre-fill Omnisearch and set it to "Clear - empty string". Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't help: using "Clear - empty string" as setting I still have the last search if I hit the magnifying glass.
The "Clear - empty string" setting is applied only when you're navigating to the Search activity from some other activity - nothing happens when you already are on the Search activity. I'm not sure if I understand your case correctly though - which magnifying glass do you have in mind, perhaps the one in the black-ish left navigation menu that says "Word search", or something else?
Sorry, I forgot to list my system info: Aedict 3.50.15 on a 6.0.1 Android phone.
Ah, I see, you have the "Live Search" disabled. Thanks for the screenshot and sorry it took me so long to realize this :-D I'm definitely getting old.
Right. The "Clear - empty string" setting only applies for the text box in the initial search screen. I think I can make it to also apply for the search boxes in follow-up screens.
As a "workaround" you can enable Settings / GUI Tuning / Search / Live Search - would that fit your use-case?
It's already enabled; I tried to disable and renable it just in case, it still keeps the last searched item.
Hmm if live search is enabled then you shouldn't be able to reach that particular screen with the magnifying glass... :) Could you describe in full, how exactly do you reach that screen?
A physical enter key? Yeah that one can launch the search result screen. However with live search, the search results should be shown as you type. Well anyway I can fix the clearing.