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Search or create note: search one whole word

Open Gregory-K opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

It's a niche case and a minor inconvenience, but just to catalog it...

Expected behaviour

"Search or create note:"
Searching for whole word using double quotes "word" should return results/notes containing the word as a whole.

Actual behaviour

"Search or create note:"
Searching for whole word using double quotes "word" returns results/notes containing the word as a whole AND as a part of bigger words.

It works as intended when searching for two, three, words / whole phrase
e.g. "word1 word2"

Steps to reproduce

e.g. search for notes containing the diff command

Searching for "diff" returns diff as a whole word and as part of different, indifferent, etc.

Current solution

e.g. searching for notes containing the diff command

Search for " diff " (space before and after the word).

Note: In this case, you cannot find "diff" as part of a path (path/diff/*, path/diff-*/*) or part of a filename (diff.*, *.diff) or inside markdown decorations (*, **, etc.).

Gregory-K avatar May 18 '20 18:05 Gregory-K

Thank you for your suggestion.

pbek avatar May 18 '20 18:05 pbek