Piggybagging this for similar reasons, the search
“and concentration”
should find the same words in the following text:
its provenance, depending on the type of water use, and the type and concentration of the pollutants;
However, because markdown formatting is not escaped by the search, and the word “concentration” is bolded, one can only find this text passage when searching for the string
“and **concentration**”.
Which makes the search very problematic, because key-words are often formatted in some way.
To that end, formatting should be escaped in the search by default.
I suppose implementing a fuzzy search like giancarloaparicio suggested could have the same result.
I am generally always in favour of fuzzy searching as an option. Maybe even as default search, but at least an option.
To be honest, I am somewhat shocked that obsidian has such limited search capabilities out of the box, because it’s neither fuzzy, nor RegEx-capable out of the box. The latter is somewhat extendable via a plugin, but it requires a unique search box which
- covers the main screen, instead of popping up at the bottom
- cannot purely search, as it is build as a search&replace tool. If you want to do a regex-search, you always must replace for something