#849 Add "whole words only" option to Find dialog

[Samuel Murray]

Currently, the only way to perform whole-word searches in OmegaT is using the wildcard search. However, the wildcard search is a more complex type of search, and it would be nice to be able to specify "whole words only" for the simple searches as well. I suggest that keyword searches and exact searches be given the option (as a checkbox) to perform "whole word" searches. The wildcards * and ? should still work, so that a user can use e.g. * to specify that a certain word should not be matched as a whole word.

Just to make sure it is understood what I mean by "whole word search": at present, if I search for "the", then it will match a segment that does not contain the word "the" but that does contain the word "Netherlands". A whole-word search would only match a segment that actually contains the word "the".

[Didier Briel]

"Currently, the only way to perform whole-word searches in OmegaT is using the wildcard search"

No, you can use regular expression and word boundaries.

From the documentation:
\bis\b
search for “is”, not “this” or “isn't” etc.

Didier

[Samuel Murray]

My apologies -- I meant "Currently, the only way to perform whole-word searches in OmegaT is using the regex search." You can't do whole-word searching using the wildcard search.