Search results highlighted

[Purple Lady]

My search results are now highlighted even though I have highlight search results unchecked in Preferences. I am on Calibre 2.3 using Win 7. This happened the last time I did a search a few days ago and I checked and unchecked highlight search results in Preferences and it was fine and subsequent searches were ok too. Now it's back.

[BetterRed]

@Purple Lady - Have a look at "highlight_search_matches" in gui.py in your config folder, your preferences indicates it should be False, your book list indicates it's True.

BR

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Purple Lady - Have a look at "highlight_search_matches" in gui.py in your config folder, your preferences indicates it should be False, your book list indicates it's True.

BR

It's false, but just before I posted, I turned it on and off again. I just restarted Calibre and the search is still working as it should.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

It's false, but just before I posted, I turned it on and off again. I just restarted Calibre and the search is still working as it should.

@Purple Lady - should that 'still' be a 'now'

There's seems to a pattern emerging where settings are occasionally not being saved as they should be. This is 4th one I can recall in recent times.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

The Find Duplicates plugin toggles that setting, you probably used it causing the setting to be changed.

[JSWolf]

What you want is to go to Preferences and then highlighting (under Interface) and set how you want the search results to show.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The Find Duplicates plugin toggles that setting, you probably used it causing the setting to be changed.

I use the FD PI at least 3 times most every day and I never get this problem and I've been wondering why that is so for months. I think I've discovered why it so.

When I'm done with Find Duplicates I always select Find Duplicates->Clear Duplicate Results, and when I do that the highlight_search_matches setting gets restored to what it was. If I don't, it stays at the value I happened to use (if different) whilst resolving what to do about the duplicates.

I get quite a few 'false duplicates' so it makes sense for me to do the Clear Duplicate Results as the last step. I can't see any obvious place to automate this. The only suggestion I can make is to automatically restore the setting if all duplicates are resolved by deleting or merging.

BR

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The Find Duplicates plugin toggles that setting, you probably used it causing the setting to be changed.

Thanks. I don't use it very often or do searches very often so it's difficult to remember when I used it last.

[JSWolf]

Also, after toggling how the search works, you may have to restart Calibre.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Also, after toggling how the search works, you may have to restart Calibre.

I think I rebooted at some point after toggling the first time a few days ago but I'm not sure. I am sure that I didn't use the Find duplicates plugin after toggling though. And after toggling the first time subsequent searches that were done immediately after did work. Who knows. I can fix it anyway.