Improved search / find feature

[tuomas2]

From user:

When using the search function, is it possible to limit your results to the gospels, history books for example? Also what about defining your own books for a section (eg choosing books I want to be included in a search)?

Other ideas:

• [DONE] Highlight Search word(s)  #1572 (in search results)
• [DONE] Highlight the word related to strongs search in search results (see [1])
• Search for all occurrences -> highlight actual word #3106
• [DONE?] help button in search dialog
• Improve the help information in Find dialog #2023
• [DONE?] quick search from toolbar
• [DONE] after large query, there should be 'wait' indicator before results are available
• Better search results for commentaries (now they show only beginning of commentary text)
• Search history #831
• Show search results as a pseudo document (in a window) #611
• Find search disappears from history when switching workspace or closing the app...  #702
• Add the text searched in the find history..  #1340
• Flexible morphology search #675
• Find search disappears from history when switching workspace or closing the app...  #702
• Add UI for strongs searches  #726
• Create search index user friendliness #817
• [DONE] When selecting a word add Find to the selection context menu  #1237
• Custom fontsize for the search results list #2024
• [DONE] Show the number of search results #2025
• Export search results #2454
• Enable Find to search multiple Bible versions at once #2455

Improved search function probably should be done similar way as epub search with SQLITE FTS5 (#3051). It will improve highlighting and bring other benefits.

From user [1]:

i would like to request a feature which would make your app vastly more useful for me, and hopefully for others too. when i look at all the occurrences of a particular greek or hebrew Word from strong's, it would be extremely helpful to have the Word or Phrase which is translated from the particular greek or hebrew Word that i am looking up highlighted so i can be certain which Word of Phrase was used in each case of translation.

Addressed by PRs:
#1953, #2004 , #2019 , #1946

[steelwil]

Use Soundex

Example: if I search for colour it should return results for colour and color

[tuomas2]

From #202

Make the find input text box to contain the last 10 prev word searched. a down arrow icon to the right if the box to pop up the prev word/text searches.

[huperniketes]

Also, add fields (eg, Strong's number for the word(s) in the search term(s)) and columns to hold them, which can then be prioritized for sorting.

[josephjq]

thanks for working on this tuomas2. i am the guy who emailed you that suggestion which you graciously added to the list. i created this github account just for this so please forgive my newbishness.

i have continued to regularly use the app to learn more greek and hebrew, and i think i have a few more useful suggestions which might make sense to include with this feature, or a later one. i have added them in brackets and italics to the feature list below because some are related to certain items on the list already. hope this helps, and please correct me if i should be following a different format for this kind of community.

From user:

When using the search function, is it possible to limit your results to the gospels, history books for example? Also what about defining your own books for a section (eg choosing books I want to be included in a search)? (it would also be very helpful to narrow strong's searches by including the specific morphology codes associated with a strong's number in a any one specific occurrence, and or by including more than one greek or hebrew Word in the search bar as a Phrase.)

Other ideas:

• highlight search works in search results
• Highlight the word related to strongs search in search results (see [1]) (this would be helpful if the grammatical morphology codes could appear beside the highlighted Word when available and linked within the search list)
• help button in search dialog
• quick search from toolbar
• after large query, there should be 'wait' indicator before results are available (better than a wait indicator would be loading the first 10 results immediately and then the rest in the background while the reader begins with the first 10 or so.)
• Better search results for commentaries (now they show only beginning of commentary text)
• search history (yes please)

From user [1]:

i would like to request a feature which would make your app vastly more useful for me, and hopefully for others too. when i look at all the occurrences of a particular greek or hebrew Word from strong's, it would be extremely helpful to have the Word or Phrase which is translated from the particular greek or hebrew Word that i am looking up highlighted so i can be certain which Word of Phrase was used in each case of translation.