I would prefer to manually choose one of the previous searches which Recoll presents
In, 1.2. Full text search I read this...
In many cases, you are looking for all the forms of a word, including plurals, different tenses for a verb, or terms derived from the same root or stem (example: floor, floors, floored, flooring...). Queries are usually automatically expanded to all such related terms (words that reduce to the same stem). This can be prevented for searching for a specific form. [Emphasis added.]
Imagine my first search is,
- I open Recoll.
- I type
Ctrl+s
. - I input, "A little foo and some more foo.txt".
- I press
Enter
. - Then Recoll finds, "A little foo and some more foo.txt".
- This is good. That is what I expect and that is what I want.
- I exit out of Recoll.
Now imagine my second search is,
- I open Recoll.
- I type
Ctrl+s
. - I input, "foo".
- I press
Enter
. - Then Recoll automatically fills in, "A little foo and some more foo.txt" and searches for, "A little foo and some more foo.txt"
- This is bad. I did not want this. My command was search for "foo". My command was not search for "A little foo and some more foo.txt"
My current workaround is,
- I type
Ctrl+s
. - I input, "foo".
- I enter, "!" after "foo" so that I my input is, "foo!"
- I press
Backspace
to delete "!". - I press
Enter
. - Then Recoll finds all files that contain, "foo".
My proposed solution is,
- I open Recoll.
- I type
Ctrl+s
. - I input, "foo".
- I press
Enter
. - Then Recoll searches for "foo".
In cases when I want to Recoll to reuse a previous search, I suggest that I must manually choose one of the previous searches which Recoll presents.