[Users] Feature request: Make search "Clear" button reset search mode

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 2019-01-10 at 14:57:12 Shai Berger wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:40:41 +0000
> MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:21:31 +0200
> > Shai Berger <shai at platonix.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > I would like to be able to set a "default search mode", and have the
> > > "Clear" button restore the mode to this default when it is clicked;
> > > this would make my work smoother.
> > > 
> > > Does this make sense to other people?    
> > 
> > Nope. I want the last search mode to remain selected for the next
> > search. I often take a couple of goes to get the search terms correct.
> >   
> 
> Just to clarify: You hit the "Clear" button between such attempts? I
> don't want the type to be reset unless "Clear" has been clicked.
> 
> > What I would like is the ability to change search mode from the
> > keyboard, after shift-tabbing off the search term box that gets
> > focus when I press /
> >   
> 
> This seems very welcome to me as well.
> 
> > Would that be good enough to smooth your work a bit?
> >   
> 
> No, because the problem -- and I have probably not made this clear
> earlier -- is not when I do consecutive searches. It's when I do a
> search, clear it, work for a while with no search, then go to search
> again, to find that the search term I'm inserting is completely
> mis-interpreted because search mode was left the way it was for my last
> search, which was not even done through the search pane. I usually
> don't realize I'm in the wrong mode until the search fails and the
> textbox turns red.

I like it the way it is. So no change for me.

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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen