In Find, "only whole words" also finds postfixes

[gugray]

Nature of issue?

• Found a bug

Details about the bug:

• Web browser and version: 88.0.1 (64-bit)
• Operating System: Windows 10

Steps:

• Have a sketch open for editing. The sketch should have strings that appear as whole tokens, and as part of other tokens, e.g.: abc, ab, a, ba, bac, Santa
• Press Ctrl+F to bring up the Find window. Make sure all the options are unchecked: not a regex, not case sensitive, not "only whole words".
• Enter a single lower-case 'a' and press Enter to search.
  Result: All occurences of "a" are highlighted, and pressing Enter or the "next" arrow cycles through them. Great.
• Check "only whole words", return to the text field, and press Enter to search again.
  Actual Result: Highlighted are all occurrences where "a" is the last character of a token, including but not limited to where "a" is the whole word. Pressing Enter or the "next" arrow cycles through all of these.
  Expected Result: only those occurrences are found where the input is the whole word, not where its the postfix of a token.

The example uses single-letter "a", but it works with multiple-letter search terms too. The issue doesn't seem to be affected by what you're searching for.

Attaching a screen grab of the issue.

find-whole-words.mp4

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[catarak]

Thanks for reporting! The Find/Replace code is located in the file codemirror-search.js, which is an altered version the default find/replace build into CodeMirror (see CodeMirror version). That's the place to start to fix this issue!

[divyanx]

It seems that the bug is unresolved.
Can I work on this?
It will be my first issue.