Please help me to switch off searching as I type

kacir · 02-07-2011, 01:05 PM

Please help me.
I am very frustrated at the moment.

I have large library. I want to organise the texts, find duplicates, put together correct author info, correct titles ...

I need to filter books often. So I start typing into the search bar. The problem is, that as I type title: Calibre starts the "search as you type" and doesn't respond for something like 30 seconds. Only after that it lets me to enter a few more characters like title:"manua only to freeze again before I can finish title:"manual"
I can (and do) type text somewhere else and then copy and paste carefully crafted regular expression into the search bar, but it is *very* frustrating

How can I tell Calibre to start searching ONLY after I press enter or click on "Go" button? I must be overlooking something obvious in settings or tweaks.

kovidgoyal · 02-07-2011, 01:16 PM

There is a search as you type in preferences->look and feel

kacir · 02-07-2011, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There is a search as you type in preferences->look and feel

Thank you. I see it now.
I was looking at the left side of the dialog.

02-07-2011, 01:05 PM	#1
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	Please help me to switch off searching as I type Please help me. I am very frustrated at the moment. I have large library. I want to organise the texts, find duplicates, put together correct author info, correct titles ... I need to filter books often. So I start typing into the search bar. The problem is, that as I type title: Calibre starts the "search as you type" and doesn't respond for something like 30 seconds. Only after that it lets me to enter a few more characters like title:"manua only to freeze again before I can finish title:"manual" I can (and do) type text somewhere else and then copy and paste carefully crafted regular expression into the search bar, but it is very frustrating How can I tell Calibre to start searching ONLY after I press enter or click on "Go" button? I must be overlooking something obvious in settings or tweaks.

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02-07-2011, 01:16 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,367 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There is a search as you type in preferences->look and feel

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