Hi.
Not sure it is a bug, but if it ain’t, it would be nice to have a way around it.
If one copies/pastes a sentence or paragraph from the editor to project search, set for “Any Word”, with the goal of seeing how much of the words (and where and which) of the source sentence(s) are present in close proximity to the said sentence or paragraph, project search sees the commas as separators, and despite the search settings, searches in “Exact Phrase” mode rather than “Any Word”. Thus making the operation I depicted impossible, unless editing the commas out. Which is too much time consuming for the operation to be worth it.
I am just trying it out for the first time. If there is a way to have project search disregard the commas and behave as intended (Any Word), I’d be glad to hear about it. Thanks.
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Spoiled by pwa everywhere where can look for echos in a document of 1- to 5 or more words in a string
Sorry. I don’t understand.
Are you saying that PWA can handle it? On windows? (I’ve never used PWA, not even to try it out.)
Whatever the solution, I need it to be quick of execution. I already have a very efficient way of working on potential/annoying word duplicates. But it is quite a maneuver. What I need now is a way of doing what I described above, but this time in the context of having, perhaps, a couple of sentences I later come to wish to rewrite (at this stage I already worked on my potential word duplicates), so that I can reassure myself that I am not reintroducing of those duplicates (or fresh new ones) I worked hard to replace, and edit artistically.
So the idea would be to paste the rewritten sentence in project search, and see duplicates highlighted around it. Thus providing the info I need.
It looks as though the way this is supposed to work is that most punctuation is ignored, as it isn’t considered a part of a word, unless you wrap it in double-quotes (which allows you to treat phrases as a word). So for example, one, two three should find and highlight the words ‘one’ ‘two’ and ‘three’. But, if you search for "one, two" three, then ‘one, two’ would be highlighted along with ‘three’, but not ‘one’ and ‘two’.
So yes, something weird is happening with commas; I’ll get it written up.
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Thank you.
Much appreciated.