Bug 77878

Summary: strip whitespace from quick search query
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Daniel Naber <misc2006>
Component: searchAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern, bluedzins, dschulz1988
Priority: NOR Keywords: junior-jobs
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Daniel Naber 2004-03-17 22:33:41 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I suggest leading/trailing whitespace is removed
before the quick search query is evaluated. This will help avoid confusion if someone enters e.g. two spaces but the quick search has no focus anymore -> it would look like there's no mail in the folder, but there are just 0 matches.
Comment 1 Dan Allen 2004-03-18 03:45:53 UTC 
+1

Seems reasonable to me.
Comment 2 Ingo Klöcker 2005-01-11 02:11:02 UTC 
This would make it impossible to look for a certain word, e.g. " or ". Maybe instead of stripping whitespace it could be visualized somehow.
Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-05-10 16:00:27 UTC 
I rather opt against this wish. 

There are two issues here:
* visual readability -- removing spaces does not solve the problem, I would suggest adding small marker at the end of the line, something like this:
how many spaces at the end?   <|

* need for more powerful query (searching for whole words as Ingo showed) -- it should be solved in "find messages", after all it is _quick_ search so it shouldn't be too much complex
Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-05-10 16:23:56 UTC 
ad.#2, whole words:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161901
Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-19 00:38:35 UTC 
Suggesting as a junior job.
Comment 6 Christophe Marin 2011-05-18 14:55:42 UTC 
merging with 161901

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161901 ***