Remember past searches.

[Pauan]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 46

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Enter a search term.
2. Re-enter the same term later.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should remember the previous term and allow me to easily select it in a drop-down
list. Instead, there is nothing.

Please provide any additional information below.
This is actually a tad tricky, because we perform searches incrementally, i.e. as you
are typing. For instance, let's say you type out "foobar". We don't want to save "fo"
or "foob" or even "fooba". We want to save only "foobar".

There are a few ways to solve this... we could make it so it only saves the search
when you hit "enter". I suspect most users naturally hit "enter" when they're done
typing, out of habit, so this might work out okay.

Another way would be to put a reasonably long timer (like 5 seconds) and only save
the search after the timer has expired. This would, unfortunately, penalize people
who are very slow typers, but of course there should be a setting in the options page
to configure this.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-09-16 13:18:46

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-09-19 01:13:26

• Labels added: Type-Feature
• Labels removed: Type-Bug, OS-All

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-09-19 18:24:40

• Labels added: Milestone-3.0

[Pauan]

This issue was updated by revision 2289a4d904.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-09-25 03:16:36

• Status changed: Pending

[Pauan]

I found a way to make this work in real-time! No need for a timer or other hacks, hurray!

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-09-25 03:18:18

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-09-30 09:16:20

• Status changed: Verified

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Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:44:47

• Status changed: Fixed