Bug 204709 - find: whole words only
Summary: find: whole words only
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Keywords:
: 326200 430886 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-08-21 23:11 UTC by Maciej Pilichowski
Modified: 2026-02-12 13:26 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2009-08-21 23:11:09 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Please provide such mode to speed up the searching (from user POV) -- when I look for "range" (name of the method) all "outofrange" are not useful.
Comment 1 Graeme Hewson 2013-06-16 10:47:53 UTC
I too would like this feature. E.g., looking for the word "reset" in a document, I see "preset" and "featureset" as well.

Using Okular 0.16.4 under KDE 4.10.4.
Comment 2 ssameer+bugs 2013-08-29 16:48:31 UTC
I am using Okular 0.17.0 in KDE SC 4.11.00 (OpenSuse).  This feature is essential for searching documents.
More examples: search for "vision" yields "division", "revision", etc.
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2013-10-18 13:22:52 UTC
*** Bug 326200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 thosecars82 2021-11-01 17:36:28 UTC
I guess this bug has not been fixed yet, right?
Comment 5 swiftgeek+kdebugs 2022-06-07 20:41:47 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 6 swiftgeek+kdebugs 2022-06-07 20:46:30 UTC
This feature is exposed via poppler's POPPLER_FIND_WHOLE_WORDS_ONLY, and qpdfview is already taking advantage of it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qpdfview/+bug/1208578

Hope this helps with implementing this feature in okular
Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2022-06-07 22:19:30 UTC
No, it does not
Comment 8 Graeme Hewson 2023-09-03 07:12:13 UTC
This bug is now over 14 years old. I note that votes have been removed.
Comment 9 Ganton 2025-04-01 10:43:09 UTC
*** Bug 430886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 aristsakas 2026-02-11 21:48:09 UTC
*** Bug 174314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 aristsakas 2026-02-11 21:48:27 UTC
*** Bug 278074 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Graeme Hewson 2026-02-12 06:45:01 UTC
I note that the bugs closed yesterday as duplicates are not exact duplicates, but are asking for support for regular expressions.
Comment 13 John Veness 2026-02-12 13:26:35 UTC
(In reply to Graeme Hewson from comment #12)
> I note that the bugs closed yesterday as duplicates are not exact
> duplicates, but are asking for support for regular expressions.

I've fixed the two from yesterday. I expect the confusion arose from the example in BUG 174314 where someone wanted to search for "Ta" and not "Taken", but the bug itself is actually asking for full regexp support, not just for whole word support.