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albell · 08-05-2022, 03:43 PM

Hi Kovid,

I'm curious to know if you plan to improve the full text search results window sometime in the future.
The whole feature is simply great, but at the moment the most uncomfortable thing to me is the order in which the matched books are displayed: I would not be wrong, but it seems completely random to me, or maybe they follow the date of insertion in Calibre?
Also, unless I have missed something, it is not possible to sort the results in any way. It would be great if matched books were sortable according to various parameters (at least the basic ones: author, tag, date, etc.),
and maybe show them in cover mode, just like in the Powersearch plugin.

Another thing that puzzles me is that if you open a book from the full text search window, the viewer by default searches for the snippet shown in the window. Which is useful, but I would find it more useful that the viewer opened searching the text with the initial query, so that you can immediately see if there are other results besides the first one shown by default by FTS.
I don't know however if it is possible to replicate some types of queries on the viewer (for example the one with NEAR), I've never tried.

Thank you!

08-05-2022, 03:43 PM	#1
albell Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Onyx Boox N96ML	Two suggestions for Full text search Hi Kovid, I'm curious to know if you plan to improve the full text search results window sometime in the future. The whole feature is simply great, but at the moment the most uncomfortable thing to me is the order in which the matched books are displayed: I would not be wrong, but it seems completely random to me, or maybe they follow the date of insertion in Calibre? Also, unless I have missed something, it is not possible to sort the results in any way. It would be great if matched books were sortable according to various parameters (at least the basic ones: author, tag, date, etc.), and maybe show them in cover mode, just like in the Powersearch plugin. Another thing that puzzles me is that if you open a book from the full text search window, the viewer by default searches for the snippet shown in the window. Which is useful, but I would find it more useful that the viewer opened searching the text with the initial query, so that you can immediately see if there are other results besides the first one shown by default by FTS. I don't know however if it is possible to replicate some types of queries on the viewer (for example the one with NEAR), I've never tried. Thank you!