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Bug 532481 - Automatic links between notes result in confusing find and replace
Automatic links between notes result in confusing find and replace
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 350990
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
0.10.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-10 13:20 UTC by Laszlo Pandy
Modified: 2008-05-10 13:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Laszlo Pandy 2008-05-10 13:20:41 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When a new notes is created and a title is set, Tomboy will search through all other notes and create links to the new note from words matching the title. This has the undesirable effect of making totally unrelated links if you make the title a common word.

Also if you then change the title of your new note, all of the links that were previously created are now changed to the new title. This means *all* words in *all* notes have now been found and replaced by the newer title.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a note about my newest programming project. Write "TODO: Store to file, load from file".
2. Create a new note about things I have to buy at the store. Set the title to "Store".
3. Decide "Store" isn't a very good title. Change it to "Shopping".
4. Go back to my programming project note. It now says: "TODO: Shopping to file, load from file".

You can see how unknowingly making a new note called "the" or "and" would quickly make all your previous notes almost impossible to understand.


Actual results:


Expected results:
I would expect that automatic links would only apply to anything I type *after* the title has been set, not everything I typed before. If this was the case, I could create a note called "Store", and later when I typed "Store" in another note I would see it turn blue and instantly realize what happened. However because it applies to text I have already typed, I cannot see there is a problem until I open up all my previous notes.

Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2008-05-10 13:47:30 UTC
Excellent writeup of this problem.  It's basically a dupe of bug #350990...check that out to see how we plan to fix it.  Thanks for the report!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 350990 ***