Long search key words can't select text

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775405984
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Long search key words can't select text

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My vision isn't so great, so I set my search bar's font size to 20, and the windows system's DPI to 125%.
And when I search these words:

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Hemiabdome após histerectomia abdominal _ Hemiabdome after abdominal hysterectomy
The search bar obviously can't show all of them.

But if I select text from behind to beginning, I can't select all the words in maximized window.


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Re: Long search key words can't select text

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775405984 wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:39 pm But if I select text from behind to beginning, I can't select all the words in maximized window.

What happens when you place the cursor in the search bar and press CTRL + A ?
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Re: Long search key words can't select text

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The following will also focus the search box and select all the text:
Press F3
Click just above or just below the search box.
Triple click the search box.

Pressing TAB will cycle between the result list and search box.
All the text is selected when the search box is focused.


Would a multi-line search box help?
775405984
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Re: Long search key words can't select text

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NotNull wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:26 pm
775405984 wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:39 pm But if I select text from behind to beginning, I can't select all the words in maximized window.

What happens when you place the cursor in the search bar and press CTRL + A ?
It select all the text. But that doesn't fix the problem. It's just a workaround.
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Re: Long search key words can't select text

Post by raccoon »

I am curious if the behavior is the same if you return the font size back to normal, and instead use the View -> Zoom feature (Ctrl +, Ctrl -, Ctrl 0) to resize text for reading.
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Re: Long search key words can't select text

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void wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:12 am
The following will also focus the search box and select all the text:
Press F3
Click just above or just below the search box.
Triple click the search box.

Pressing TAB will cycle between the result list and search box.
All the text is selected when the search box is focused.


Would a multi-line search box help?

I think I found the problem, punctuation!

You can't have punctuation as the key word, like ?+*_<>:~

BUT
`!@#$%^&()-=,./\"|[]{}↑↓←→ are fine though.
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