Edit search cursor stays at the beginning

[alfureu]

JabRef 5.0-dev--snapshot--2018-11-11--master--50875f967
Windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 1.8.0_172

Often when I hit the search bar if there is already a text, it expands visually, however, the search cursor is at the beginning of the bar and is not moving. On double-click it does not select the whole phrase, I have to use Delete to individually delete all the search text - Backspace is not working obviously. After this is done, I can search again with an empty search bar.

It would be desirable to

• get rid of the visual UI of search bar expansion - steals half a second from searching every single time
• be able to quickly select the whole search and delete everything in the search bar
• fix the bug of a not moving cursor at the beginning of the search bar

[Ali96kz]

Can't reproduce bug.

1. type text in a search bar.
2. clicked to row in a table
3. Clicked to search bar
   Cursor is at the end. By double clicking select whole text.

Also you can use Ctrl + F that will automatically select whole text.

[alfureu]

I don't know but at my end it shows me this ... the cursor stays constantly at the beginning - does not move while I type.

[Ali96kz]

I am new to JabRef. Can you say how did you open that search bar.

[alfureu]

Just simply clicked on it, and the rest opened on its own. As you can see, the name is "complex", as the search phrase has - the name - has prefix, and I have multiple records from the same author - so Jabref offers this little window. What I mean is that it opened automatically as soon as I started to type the search phrase.

[Ali96kz]

I reproduced issue. I will fix it.

[tobiasdiez]

Just as a guess: the reason for this bug is the manual binding. If this is the case, then it should be easy to fix by using bindBidirectional

[alfureu]

Any updates on this? Still not working, moreover, some strange elements pop-up...

[tobiasdiez]

This should be fixed in the latest development version. Could you please check the build from http://builds.jabref.org/master/. Thanks! Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.