When searching for tiddlers, search gets triggered for strings of length >=3. I have 2-char tiddler names which I’d like to find, plus many years of muscle memory of hitting Tab in shell or Ctrl-p in Vim after two typed chars rather than three. Is this 3 hardcoded somewhere or is there a setting I c…

See https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hidden%20Setting%3A%20Search%20Minimum%20Length

Thank you. What’s the reason to make it a hidden setting? Clearly not to make it harder for me to find it on my own :smiley:

see https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hidden%20Settings , which says: The most useful configuration settings for TiddlyWiki are exposed in the control panel but some more advanced settings do not have a full user interface. Instead, the underlying configuration tiddlers are edited directly. Most (all?) of …

I can totally understand the desire to avoid settings bloat in $:/ControlPanel > Settings (I feel it especially on a small smartphone screen). As well as cloaking easy opportunities for beginner users to shoot themselves in the foot. What I’m not happy with is that I still had to resort to asking ot…

I had the same issue a while ago when I was searching for single Chinese characters (that may not have sounded right). If you’re in a bind and have neither the time, the resources nor the inclination to rent office space, purchace equipment and hire staff for a start-up to write software for your t…

There’s also this trick: complete your input with space characters until it reaches the limit. Example with a single letter input “é” and 2 space characters: [image] Fred

This is useful as a workaround for the hardcoded 3 char minimum length, to find stuff shorter than 3 chars. What about willing to search for xy and typing x then two spaces, then y? I asked myself and didn’t know. I had to try in TiddlyWiki and x y finds xy. This is a bit confusing, you’ll have to …

[image] vuk: I had to try in TiddlyWiki and x y finds xy. This is a bit confusing, you’ll have to explain. TW standard search uses the search filter operator with default search mode, i.e. words. In this case, user input is considered a space list of tokens and any title containing every tok…

I’ve just tried it. A very efficient and clever solution!

The message “Search text too short” is itself a user interface element that you can modify see $:/language/Search/Search/TooShort However once you learn you can just fill up to the minimum length with spaces and have no effect you find you dont need more. eg try <% on tiddlywiki.com

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