Entry preview parses html incorrectly after search with regular expression enabled

[teertinker]

Jabref 3.0 as well as recent development versions do not parse the html code in the preview window correctly. This seems to happen if there is some html code WITHIN a certain bibtexfield. The citation is parsed correctly, but the "abstract" field in the preview window, which contains some autogenerated and manually inserted html code, seems to delete the "<" of each tag.
the string automatically inserted string "br>", appears the same way as my manual added italics "i>"

[matthiasgeiger]

This is working fine for me.

I'm using the default entry preview setting with:
\begin{abstract}<BR><BR><b>Abstract: </b> \format[HTMLChars]{\abstract} \end{abstract}

Can you try this snippet in Options -> Preferences -> Entry Preview?

[teertinker]

Thank you for your snippet. I was able to narrow down the problem... somehow. First your snippet changes nothing. There are, however some entries being parsed correctly, and some are parsed false.
After some digging I realized, that it is somehow connected with the new search function!

How to reproduce it:

• look in your database for some entries with abstract with a certain keyword (e.g. "statistics")
  -> do NOT use the search function.
• have a look at the abstracts, they are parsed correctly
• enable "regular expression"
• search for the key word e.g. "statistics"
• look at the abstracts of your filtered entries -> they should be parsed incorrectly
• clear the search term and unmark "regular expression"
• go through your database.
  entries that have NOT been part of your filter, should be parsed correctly
  entries that were part of the filter are STILL parsed incorrectly

[matthiasgeiger]

Thanks for digging into this.

I can reproduce the problem now.

[simonharrer]

Please confirm that it is fixed by trying out the newest build containing the fix available at build.gradle.org in about 20 min.

[teertinker]

Thanks, it works now.

However, there is something new, that ist a bit irritating. The preview window for long entries (e.g. those with abstract) is now always scrolled to the bottom. So I can see the abstract, but not the reference. Therefore, to start reading, I have always to scroll to the top of the page. I don't know whether this is intended - it wasn't like this yesterday.

[simonharrer]

Hm, yes, I see. Will revert this. Thanks for the info!