Search not working as expected

banid0 · 04-28-2015, 06:52 AM

Hello,

I'm a newbie to calibre, I only use it to gather all my PDF books, and send them to my iPad to Marvin. I've managed to do that, and it's fine.

But some time ago, either with an update or with some option I activated, that I don't know which one, the search function has stopped functioning as it should.

Let's imagine I have this books:
"hello world"
"the living dead"
"smileys for dummies"

In the past, if I wrote "dummies" on the search box, I would see only one book and the others would disappear. That's the behaviour I'm expecting.

Now, all of the three books appear, bue the last one is highlighted in green.

I don't want this behaviour as it's gets confusing with thousands of books I have.

Can you please help? I've been googling around, but as I'm very unexperienced with calibre, I don't know what I should be searching...

Thanks in advance!

darryl · 04-28-2015, 07:03 AM

Go to preferences. On the top line under interface select searching. There is a check box which you no doubt have ticked next to text saying something like highlight search results instead of restricting. Untick this, and you should be back to the behaviour you want.

BetterRed · 04-28-2015, 07:20 AM

@banid0 - see ==>> Some plugins, can change calibre's search highlighting

BR

banid0 · 05-05-2015, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darryl

Go to preferences. On the top line under interface select searching. There is a check box which you no doubt have ticked next to text saying something like highlight search results instead of restricting. Untick this, and you should be back to the behaviour you want.

Thank you a gazillion, right on the spot

04-28-2015, 06:52 AM	#1
banid0 Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Device: Kindle PaperWhite 3	Search not working as expected Hello, I'm a newbie to calibre, I only use it to gather all my PDF books, and send them to my iPad to Marvin. I've managed to do that, and it's fine. But some time ago, either with an update or with some option I activated, that I don't know which one, the search function has stopped functioning as it should. Let's imagine I have this books: "hello world" "the living dead" "smileys for dummies" In the past, if I wrote "dummies" on the search box, I would see only one book and the others would disappear. That's the behaviour I'm expecting. Now, all of the three books appear, bue the last one is highlighted in green. I don't want this behaviour as it's gets confusing with thousands of books I have. Can you please help? I've been googling around, but as I'm very unexperienced with calibre, I don't know what I should be searching... Thanks in advance!

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04-28-2015, 07:03 AM	#2
darryl Wizard Posts: 3,108 Karma: 60231510 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O, Kindle Oasis, Huwei Ascend Mate 7	Go to preferences. On the top line under interface select searching. There is a check box which you no doubt have ticked next to text saying something like highlight search results instead of restricting. Untick this, and you should be back to the behaviour you want.

04-28-2015, 07:20 AM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,575 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@banid0 - see ==>> Some plugins, can change calibre's search highlighting BR

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