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Search improvement: allow substring matching (e.g., last characters of an ID)

Hello,

I use Paste daily to manage my clipboard history and I really love the app. However, I’ve noticed a limitation with the search function.

Right now, search only seems to work if I type the beginning of the copied text. For example, if I have copied this MongoDB ID multiple times:

68d0fed0f6fc5408f8034dde

and I search only for the last 5 characters 34dde, nothing shows up. It looks like search is prefix-based rather than full-text.

It would be extremely helpful if search could support substring matching, so that any part of the text (beginning, middle, or end) could be used to find items in the history.

This would be especially useful for developers and power users who often remember just part of an ID, token, or string (like the ending), and it would also make it easier to find snippets of longer texts.

I believe this improvement would make Paste even more powerful and efficient.

Thanks a lot for your great work on this app!

9 months ago