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Spotlight search gets unhelpfully stuck in 'public room' search mode if you typo a search #23726

Description

@ara4n

Steps to reproduce

  1. Press cmd/ctrl-K
  2. Rapidly type in someone's name and hit enter
  3. Discover that you typoed the name, and you are now stuck in "Public rooms" filter (because the first item if you don't have any results is to select "public rooms"
  4. Feel disoriented, and manually delete all the text including the filter (which means hitting delete several times to grab the tag), and start over

Outcome

What did you expect?

Failing when you search shouldn't take you into a "search public rooms" filtering mode. Instead, there could be a "No matches" prompt as the first entry in the results, stopping you from accidentally selecting the "public rooms" filter.

What happened instead?

You step on a missing stair. This happens roughly once a day; it gets jarring.

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macOS

Application version

Nightly

How did you install the app?

nightly

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

No

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    A-SearchA label for all search issues(messages, rooms, spaces, users, etc)A-Spotlight-SearchIssues related to search dialog available in Web/DesktopO-OccasionalAffects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarelyS-MinorImpairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds existT-Defect

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