Daily build: filtering citations does not filter adequately

[florisvdh]

System details

RStudio Edition : Desktop
RStudio Version : 1.4.774
OS Version : Linux Mint 20 (~Ubuntu 20.04)
R Version : 4.0.2

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Visual markdown editor: press ctrl+shift+F8
2. In the dialog box, go to a Zotero collection
3. In the 'search for citation field', type an author's name which should be rather unique in the Zotero DB.

Describe the problem in detail

Still many records are shown after filtering. It may be that individual letters are being searched for, not words.

Describe the behavior you expected

When entering a word which is unique in the database, only one record should remain.

• I have read the guide to submitting good bug reports at https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/wiki/Writing-Good-Bug-Reports .
• I have installed the latest version of RStudio and confirmed that the issue still persists.
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• I have done my best to include a minimal, self-contained set of instructions for consistently reproducing the issue.

[dragonstyle]

Thanks for reporting this. We are using approximate string matching for our search which won't result in unique/exact matching, but instead perform a weighted fuzzy search on Citekey, Author, Title, Publication, and Issue Date. If your search becomes unique enough, its possible that all the results but one will disappear, but typically I would expect there to be many matches, but sorted properly (e.g. the first item should be a great match).

If you're not seeing this, please do let me know as I can fine tune the approximation behavior and weighting and would be happy to do so to improve the search quality.

[florisvdh]

👍 I can confirm that entries are properly sorted (in 1.4.823).