Search with colons will confuse search

[alexanderadam]

Environment

Joplin version: 1.1.4
Platform: Linux
OS specifics: doesn't matter

Steps to reproduce

1. search for https://github.com, ActiveSupport::Duration or any other thing with colons

Describe what you expected to happen

Finding only my notes with the terms https://github.com or ActiveSupport::Duration. But the search will simply show some notes that don't contain the term.

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[renesugar]

Joplin for Desktop
Joplin 1.2.6 (prod, darwin)
Revision: f5f117c (master)

Searches with URLs used to work. But, now, I am seeing the same problem.

Any search containing a colon makes the Joplin UI unresponsive.

[JackGruber]

I think you should update and try your search again. Because the last stable version is 1.5.14with many search fixes.
I can search without a problem for URLs or something like this "::-webkit"

[alexanderadam]

I can search without a problem for URLs or something like this "::-webkit"

I just tried it again (I'm also on v1.5.14) and if I search something like https://foobar.com it still shows many notes that doesn't have the string https://foobar.com in it.

Could it be related to some setting or so? 🤔

[renesugar]

Joplin 1.5.14 (prod, darwin)
Revision: 9e076bf (master)

I am still seeing a problem with the latest version.

• searching for rt.live (with no double quotes) works
• searching for https://rt.live/ (with no double quotes) freezes the UI.
• searching for "https://rt.live/" (with double quotes) works

[JackGruber]

@alexanderadam please se doc https://joplinapp.org/#searching

One drawback of Full Text Search is that it ignores most non-alphabetical characters

You have to use /"https://foobar.com"

@renesugar
Please also note the search syntax because of the non-alphabetical characters.
On windows I can't reproduce the freeze, no matter how I perform the search

[alexanderadam]

@alexanderadam please se doc https://joplinapp.org/#searching

One drawback of Full Text Search is that it ignores most non-alphabetical characters

Well, it would be perfectly fine if this would actually be the case. 😉
And this is also what I would expect.
Because in this case https://foobar.com and https foobar com would have the same outcome, right?
But they clearly don't have the same output. The first one seem to match to all(?) notes whereas the latter is working like it should.

I have rather the feeling that https:… is wrongfully interpreted as a search filter although it is none, according to the documentation that you mentioned.
I don't know whether my assumption is right, though. But if it is, non-search filters obviously shouldn't be threaten as filters.
Otherwise this probably leads to unexpected behaviour.

But again, I don't know whether this is really the case. Somebody with insights of the code base can clarify this probably.

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[roman-r-m]

Maybe @naviji would know if this is a bug or maybe a limitation of Joplin's FTS implementation

[JackGruber]

It's a bug. The last time when I took a look at it the word bevor : was interpreted as a filter key word.
I just haven't had time to fix the bug yet