Nemo search doesn't work with phrases under 3 characters

[atiredman]

 * Nemo version (4.2.3-1)
 * Is issue with desktop or windowed nemo?
 * Distribution - (Manjaro)
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used
 * 64 bit

Issue
Nemo doesn't allow you to search for 1 or 2 character phrases anymore.

Steps to reproduce
Open Nemo
Click the search icon or press Ctrl+f
Type a 1 or 2 character phrase

Expected behaviour
Nemo would search for all files that contain that 1 or 2 character phrase.

Other information
I noticed this behavior start after upgrading from (4.2.2-1 -> 4.2.3-1)

[atiredman]

This issue is still present in the newest Nemo release (4.4.1). Sadly this is a critical feature for my use case forcing me to downgrade to an older Nemo version (4.2.2).

An example of how this issue negatively affects users:

I recently tried to search my music folder for all my songs written by U2, opening the search bar, typing U2 and pressing enter does nothing in Nemo 4.4.1. While in version 4.2.2 a list of all songs containing U2 would appear.

[leigh123linux]

@atiredman Add a wildcard.

u2*

[leigh123linux]

Sorry we have no intention to lower the character limit as it was introduced to fix an issue.

#2073

If you want it lower edit this line and compile it.

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/src/nemo-query-editor.c#L182

IMO using a wildcard is much easier :-)

[guy-teube]

I understand this behaviour fixes an issue, but it should be an option choosen by the user (I would define with only 1 character in my case, others users another value if they want).
I am not able to compile Nemo.
The wildcard is not a bypass option because "?*" doesn't display files with a question mark.

[mtwebster]

What version are you on?

As of nemo 5.0 you can have any length (enter initiates the search now, among other things).

[guy-teube]

Ok I see.
I'm stuck on 4.4.2 (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) so I suppose I should upgrade to have a new version of Nemo.