Searching for multi-word keywords fails

[JackKelly]

First off: thanks so much to everyone who has worked on JabRef. It's an awesome tool!

If I do a search like keywords=building then this works fine. But I cannot seem to use multi-word search terms. None of the following searches return any results, despite the fact that I definitely have a bunch of entries which have building management as one of their keywords:

• keywords="building management"
• keywords='building management'
• keywords=building management
• keywords=(building management)
• keywords=\"building management\"
• keywords=\'building management\'

If I enclose even single-word search terms in quotes then this also fails. e.g. keywords="building" or keywords='building'.

The best I can do is search for "building management" (i.e. exclude keywords=) but, of course, this returns results where building management is in any field.

I'm using JabRef 3.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 x64 and OpenJRE 8.

[oscargus]

What about keywords=building and keywords=management? At least as a temporary workaround. Or the regexp keywords = building\smanagement?

[JackKelly]

ah, great, both of those solutions work, thank you so much :)

[stefan-kolb]

@simonharrer What do you think about this?

[JackKelly]

nice work, thank you :)

(I haven't run the new code yet - I'll probably wait until the next release).

[tobiasdiez]

What is now the correct way to search for the keyword "building management" versus search for entries having keywords "building" and "management" ?

[simonharrer]

keywords="building management" vs keywords=building and keywords=management