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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Actually there isn't a single setting. That would be nice for many reasons I have battled for in the past, but the reasons against such a thing are valid so I don't try any more  |
There is another solution ...
Let the user provide the string
search = ['author:"'+re.sub(r'(.*) ([^ ]*)',r'\2',a.strip().replace('|', ','))+'"' for a in authors.split(',')]
as a configuration option ;-)
Like you can define RE for book import or for "save to disk" or for plugboard.
You see, I had several reasons for creating this thread. Here they are, ordered by importance:
1. I was happy that I succeeded in creating my first meaningful private patch, and I wanted to share my joy with this wonderful community.
2. I wanted to share my hack with whomever might have the same itch that I was trying to scratch. With millions of Calibre users around the world, I am pretty sure there are [a few] users that might find this interesting.
3. I wanted to encourage people to try to have a peek at Calibre internals, because making a *small* patch wasn't nearly as difficult as I was expecting. Even if your Python programming experience is fairly limited.
4. I wanted to hear what others think about the usefulness of this (admittedly very specific) hack
5. I was thinking that it would be extremely cool to have a patch accepted into the main tree ;-).
But, now that I am up and running, I think that there will be more such little patches (especially where I can use RegularExpression to do something cool), and who knows ... perhaps one day ...