You cant actually edit "Search keywords" they are greyed out. So if you want to improve them, maybe change from lower to upper case, the only option is to delete the entry and then manually create a new one.

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rszrama commented
Category: bug » feature

Hmm... yeah, I did this since I needed search keywords to be unique and didn't want to add an extra validation step in there at the time. I'll consider this one a feature request by now, and I'm not quite sure how I'd implement it.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

When i looked at the code, and remember I dont understand most of it, (BASIC was my limit 26 years ago) It seemed that if I wanted to add a new entry, it would first check if it existed, and if so re-direct me to the edit page for existing otherwise it would allow me to create a new entry

So if the keyword were to be made editable, could you use the same code ? So on submit it would re-direct to the existing term, and use the fact of the redirect to delete the one you are leaving from?

Alternatively you could you add a button to the right say "Look Up" this checks the new name against existing, if it is acceptable it then un greys the Submit Button

The main thing i see from this is
A) you will likeley be making case changes for clarity, or fixing names of people and places "blue dog" to "Blue Dog"
B) when you are looking for the search term, you will likely see similar ones, which are the most probable changes say "Blue Dog" to "Blue Cat"
C) Its unlikely you will change "Blue Dog" to "Pink Dog" - That seems more of a job for a moduule that did search word re-direct for common errors say "Faerie" and "Fairy" or "America" and "USA"....... :)