Tomboy is a great application. The "What links here?" or Backlinks plugin is a wonderful feature.

But the fact that the Tomboy search now seems to use the OR logic and highlight all keywords in the search really screws it up.

I'm not going to spend any time explaining why. Chances are, if you are reading this page, you already know exactly what I'm talking about.

Below you'll find a patch to make the search function of Tomboy search for a complete string, not for "any word" in the search.

This patch is for version 0.6.3. The patch affects the Ctrl-F search, but not the global search across all notes. So there is a side-effect.

The list of notes returned by the global search will contain notes that have some of the words in your query, but not the actual phrase.

For example, if you search for "red widget", you might get a list of notes that contain the word red or the word widget. If you click on such note in the list, the Ctrl-F search kicks in, and because with the patch it will only search for "red widget" you won't find anything.

It's not really a big deal, but I wanted to mention it here.

Here is the patch, it's just an ugly one-line hack, but it gets the job done: tomboy-0.6.3-search.patch

If you have any questions then drop me a line at k AT goudkov DOT com

Konstantin Goudkov,
www.goudkov.com