Search

Full-text search, match highlighting and selecting results. Decisions: D-41.

• Finds notes by text
  • Shared: NotesCoreTest.searchResultsCarryWhereTheTermsMatch
  • Android UI: HistorySearchTrashUiTest.searchFindsNotesByText
  • iOS UI: HistorySearchTrashUITests.SearchFindsNotesByText
• No matches says so
  • Android UI: HistorySearchTrashUiTest.searchWithoutMatchesSaysSo
  • iOS UI: HistorySearchTrashUITests.SearchWithoutMatchesSaysSo
  • Not tested: Shared
• Matches visible text, not Markdown syntax
  • Shared: NotesCoreTest.searchMatchesVisibleTextNotSyntax
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Trashed notes aren’t found
  • Shared: NotesCoreTest.moveDeleteUndelete
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Every occurrence is found, ignoring case
  • Shared: SearchIndexTest.findsEveryOccurrenceIgnoringCase
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Each term of the query is matched
  • Shared: SearchIndexTest.findsEachTermOfTheQuery
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Overlapping and touching matches merge
  • Shared: SearchIndexTest.mergesOverlappingAndTouchingMatches
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Punctuation matches literally
  • Shared: SearchIndexTest.matchesPunctuationLiterally
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Match offsets index the original text even when lower-casing changes length
  • Shared: SearchIndexTest.offsetsIndexTheOriginalTextEvenWhereLowerCasingChangesLength
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• An empty query matches nothing
  • Shared: SearchIndexTest.nothingMatchesAnEmptyQuery
  • Not tested: Android UI, iOS UI
• Selected results move together
  • Android UI: HistorySearchTrashUiTest.selectedSearchResultsMoveTogether
  • iOS UI: HistorySearchTrashUITests.SelectedSearchResultsMoveTogether
  • Not tested: Shared
• Selected results go to the trash together
  • Android UI: HistorySearchTrashUiTest.selectedSearchResultsGoToTheTrashTogether
  • iOS UI: HistorySearchTrashUITests.SelectedSearchResultsGoToTheTrashTogether
  • Not tested: Shared

The note lookup (inside a note) is in links-and-navigation.md.

Gaps

• Select all in search results, and undo after moving results, are untested.
• Results updating after a note is edited or deleted while search is open are untested.
• Non-Latin text (accents, Cyrillic, CJK) in queries is untested beyond the lower-casing offset case.