From 1eeb0c7c929fb34dfa9a46cc2141f9648e31906f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:40:58 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix get saved search text not working if there is a leading =

---
 src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py b/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py
index 3624a10f8c..4561ee3516 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ class SavedSearchBoxMixin(object):  # {{{
             current_search = self.search.currentText()
             if not current_search.startswith('search:"'):
                 raise ValueError()
-            current_search = current_search[8:-1]
+            current_search = current_search[8:-1].lstrip('=')
             current_search = db.saved_search_lookup(current_search)
             if not current_search:
                 raise ValueError()