[PROPOSAL] Better regex for Google Docs
When using Google Docs, when I insert a citation and in the search box I type "ali", search results include papers with "sexualised" and "egalitarinism" in the title, I believe because there is an "ali" inside those words.
I propose a regex of the form "\bali.*\b", so that the search box would return only papers which contains a word that starts with "ali", but not search papers that contains the characters "ali" in the middle of another completely different word
I propose a regex of the form "\bali.*\b", so that the search box would return only papers which contains a word that starts with "ali", but not search papers that contains the characters "ali" in the middle of another completely different word
https://www.zotero.org/support/searching#advanced_search
If that is the case, no, it doesn't accomplish what I want
I think that's not unreasonable and may actually have advantage in terms of speed.
I am talking about _Google Docs_. Not Microsoft Word.
In Google Docs, I insert a citation by pressing CTRL+ALT+C on my keyboard.
Then a message box pop ups, titled "Quick Format Citation".
This message box contains a text box.
In the text box I type "ali".
Then it gives me all sort of results, like papers with "generALIty", "equALIzing" in the title.
I don't think the user expects this behavior?
I think we should look for "ali" at the start of the words that make the title, not in the middle.
The problem is that too much _suggestions_ are returned, and most of them are irrelevant and doesn't make sense to me.
If it speeds up things even better :)
P.S. Even more suggestions are returned which doesn't seem to have "ali" in the title at all. I still don't know how it matched on those other suggestions.