A leading space seems to be ignored. A trailing space tends to reduce the number of hits but sometimes it can actually increase the number of results. Other times it just cancels all results and finds nothing.
Maybe it doesn't hang but it isn't clear if a space becomes part of the search token or whether it is used to select between two different search methods, i.e. one for whole words and another for partial words. -- Synaptic "Quick search" hangs on space character https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279555 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
