Any way to search for 'Heat Exchanger' in crafting menu?

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Any way to search for 'Heat Exchanger' in crafting menu?

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I'm trying to figure out what I need to build for a nuclear reactor. It looks like one of the items I need to construct a lot of is the heat exchanger. I have no idea how to make it. So, I thought I would try searching for it. I press 'E' to bring up the crafting menu. Then, I click the magnifying class to search. I type 'H' for 'Heat Exchanger' but don't see it there. What should I type instead to find 'Heat Exchanger' in the crafting menu?

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There are are 4 groups that match "H", you have to click each tab to check. Type more of the name to get it down to a single group.

The spellchecker is very aggressive, results for "Heat" give:
Logistics -> Arithmetic combinator
Production -> Heat exchanger
Production -> Heat pipe
Production -> Chemical plant
Intermediate products -> Heavy oil cracking to light oil

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Thanks!

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@garath:
Just type more of the name like @DaveMcW suggested.

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I've posted that "per letter parsing" as a bug report as it's completely unexpected and unwanted imho.
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Post by Mendel »

So that is why searching has been so weird in the game.

I would not have thought of reporting that as a bug though as clearly it is "working as intended" by whoever implemented it.
That said, you seemed to well and truly get the message across so... Thanks! Well done! 8-)

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Post by garath »

We would hope the GUI re-write would contain the ability to show results from all tabs.

In my case, I must have been on Logistics tab. When I saw the 'Arithmetic Combinator' result, my first--and last--thought was that Search is irrevocably broken. So, yeah, I definitely hope they revisit search in the GUI rewrite.

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