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Walk Search History

kiwidude68 edited this page Mar 3, 2024 · 4 revisions

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Introduction

This plugin provides toolbar and keyboard shortcuts to moving forward and backward through your calibre search history.

The intention is to offer a similar experience to a web browser of allowing you to surf back and forth between your search results with Alt+Left / Alt+Right keys. Also very useful upon restarting Calibre to quickly restore your last search.

Menu

Main Features

  • Alt+Left Arrow to move back one search in your history
  • Alt+Right Arrow to move forward one search in your history
  • Search history maintained independently of that displayed in the combo dropdown
  • Optional independent search history per library (retained until calibre closed)
  • Additional history list displayed in toolbar dropdown menu
  • Ability to clear the search history
  • Shortcuts and other preferences customisable in a configuration dialog

Configuration

Access the configuration dialog via:

  • Preferences -> Plugins -> User interface action -> Walk Search History -> Customize plugin
  • History -> Customize...

Configuration Dialog

Option Description
Default toolbar button action If you have this plugin in your calibre main toolbar,
what should happen when you click on the image button.
Previous search - apply previous search
Dropdown menu - display plugin menu
Display last x searches Optionally restrict how many searches to show in menu.
Does not impact how many are stored, which is always max 25.
Keep separate history per library When switching calibre libraries share search history or not.
Checking this option will keep separate history.
Per library history is lost when calibre is closed.

Default Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut Description
Alt+Left Previous search result
Alt+Right Next search result

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