Searching does not always work
Dear Zotero,
I might have created trouble for you by adding many entries. With just a little bit under 2000 entries I do have some problems with searching.
It takes a long time to enter a search text and sometimes characters at the end of the search text gets lost.
The main problem seems to me to be that there is no delay (or a too short delay?) after entering text before searching begins.
And this creates the second problem that characters get lost, probably rather deep in the input loops of the application. (I do not know how that is structured in your programming framework.)
This problem hits me all the time so I would be very glad for a solution.
I might have created trouble for you by adding many entries. With just a little bit under 2000 entries I do have some problems with searching.
It takes a long time to enter a search text and sometimes characters at the end of the search text gets lost.
The main problem seems to me to be that there is no delay (or a too short delay?) after entering text before searching begins.
And this creates the second problem that characters get lost, probably rather deep in the input loops of the application. (I do not know how that is structured in your programming framework.)
This problem hits me all the time so I would be very glad for a solution.
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But the general solution, if searches are taking too long, is to 1) make sure you're in the right mode — "Title, Creator, Year" is much faster than the other modes if you don't need full-text searching — and 2) to prefix the search with " (double-quotes), which will cause Zotero not to search until you press Return.
But should not Zotero stop searching as soon as I type a new character?