diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 511b2058ad..0ee612e5be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     Feature #7130: Ability to set MyGUI logging verbosity
     Feature #7148: Optimize string literal lookup in mwscript
     Feature #7194: Ori to show texture paths
-    Feature #7214: Add search capabilities to the console window
+    Feature #7214: Searching in the in-game console
     Task #7117: Replace boost::scoped_array with std::vector
     Task #7151: Do not use std::strerror to get errno error message
 
diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.cpp b/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.cpp
index 7319e87d2d..d44d517045 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.cpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.cpp
@@ -384,20 +384,20 @@ namespace MWGui
     {
         const std::string& searchTerm = mSearchTerm->getOnlyText();
 
-        if (searchTerm.length() < minLengthOfSearchTerm)
+        if (searchTerm.empty())
         {
             return;
         }
 
-        currentSearchTerm = Utf8Stream::lowerCaseUtf8(searchTerm);
-        currentOccurrence = std::string::npos;
+        mCurrentSearchTerm = Utf8Stream::lowerCaseUtf8(searchTerm);
+        mCurrentOccurrence = std::string::npos;
 
         findNextOccurrence(nullptr);
     }
 
     void Console::findNextOccurrence(MyGUI::Widget* _sender)
     {
-        if (currentSearchTerm.length() < minLengthOfSearchTerm)
+        if (mCurrentSearchTerm.empty())
         {
             return;
         }
@@ -408,24 +408,24 @@ namespace MWGui
         size_t startIndex = 0;
 
         // If this is not the first search, we start right AFTER the last occurrence.
-        if (currentOccurrence != std::string::npos && historyText.length() - currentOccurrence > minLengthOfSearchTerm)
+        if (mCurrentOccurrence != std::string::npos && historyText.length() - mCurrentOccurrence > 1)
         {
-            startIndex = currentOccurrence + minLengthOfSearchTerm;
+            startIndex = mCurrentOccurrence + 1;
         }
 
-        currentOccurrence = historyText.find(currentSearchTerm, startIndex);
+        mCurrentOccurrence = historyText.find(mCurrentSearchTerm, startIndex);
 
         // If the last search did not find anything AND we didn't start at
         // the beginning, we repeat the search one time for wrapping around the text.
-        if (currentOccurrence == std::string::npos && startIndex != 0)
+        if (mCurrentOccurrence == std::string::npos && startIndex != 0)
         {
-            currentOccurrence = historyText.find(currentSearchTerm);
+            mCurrentOccurrence = historyText.find(mCurrentSearchTerm);
         }
 
         // Only scroll & select if we actually found something
-        if (currentOccurrence != std::string::npos)
+        if (mCurrentOccurrence != std::string::npos)
         {
-            markOccurrence(currentOccurrence, currentSearchTerm.length());
+            markOccurrence(mCurrentOccurrence, mCurrentSearchTerm.length());
         }
         else
         {
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ namespace MWGui
 
     void Console::findPreviousOccurence(MyGUI::Widget* _sender)
     {
-        if (currentSearchTerm.length() < minLengthOfSearchTerm)
+        if (mCurrentSearchTerm.empty())
         {
             return;
         }
@@ -446,24 +446,24 @@ namespace MWGui
         size_t startIndex = historyText.length();
 
         // If this is not the first search, we start right BEFORE the last occurrence.
-        if (currentOccurrence != std::string::npos && currentOccurrence > minLengthOfSearchTerm)
+        if (mCurrentOccurrence != std::string::npos && mCurrentOccurrence > 1)
         {
-            startIndex = currentOccurrence - minLengthOfSearchTerm;
+            startIndex = mCurrentOccurrence - 1;
         }
 
-        currentOccurrence = historyText.rfind(currentSearchTerm, startIndex);
+        mCurrentOccurrence = historyText.rfind(mCurrentSearchTerm, startIndex);
 
         // If the last search did not find anything AND we didn't start at
         // the end, we repeat the search one time for wrapping around the text.
-        if (currentOccurrence == std::string::npos && startIndex != historyText.length())
+        if (mCurrentOccurrence == std::string::npos && startIndex != historyText.length())
         {
-            currentOccurrence = historyText.rfind(currentSearchTerm, historyText.length());
+            mCurrentOccurrence = historyText.rfind(mCurrentSearchTerm, historyText.length());
         }
 
         // Only scroll & select if we actually found something
-        if (currentOccurrence != std::string::npos)
+        if (mCurrentOccurrence != std::string::npos)
         {
-            markOccurrence(currentOccurrence, currentSearchTerm.length());
+            markOccurrence(mCurrentOccurrence, mCurrentSearchTerm.length());
         }
         else
         {
diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.hpp b/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.hpp
index dd9c6b48ac..611b9577e4 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.hpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwgui/console.hpp
@@ -87,9 +87,8 @@ namespace MWGui
         void findNextOccurrence(MyGUI::Widget* _sender);
         void findPreviousOccurence(MyGUI::Widget* _sender);
         void markOccurrence(size_t textPosition, size_t length);
-        size_t currentOccurrence = std::string::npos;
-        std::string currentSearchTerm = "";
-        const size_t minLengthOfSearchTerm = 1;
+        size_t mCurrentOccurrence = std::string::npos;
+        std::string mCurrentSearchTerm;
 
         std::string complete(std::string input, std::vector<std::string>& matches);