"find text" not work in file type based color

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"find text" not work in file type based color

Post by *xbeta »

update 2008-07-25:
thanks to icfu's reply.
conclusion:
- yes, find text did not work in this case directly
- for performance reseons
- if you really want it, use content plugin

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TC can define colors by file type,
and here, I think, file type means a set of options of file search.

among these options, there is a "find text".
It works for search, but NOT work for color.

eg: highlight *.txt ONLY with string "done"
but all .txt highlighted.

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[searches]
done_SearchFor=*.txt
done_SearchIn=
done_SearchText=done
done_SearchFlags=0|000002000020|||||||||0000|

[Colors]
ColorFilter1=>done
ColorFilter1Color=16711680 
tested:
my daily used TC,
a origin TC (just setup, no more options & plugins),
both v7.03,
windows XP SP2 Simplified Chinese

I got the same result.
find no clues when searching this forum.
maybe this one have some relations:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=10182
Last edited by xbeta on 2008-07-25, 08:00 UTC, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by *icfu »

TC would not be usable anymore if on each directory change it would have to scan big files for text...

If TC will be equipped with some kind of desktop search functionality one day, it would be feasible to do that, because then it could load the information from database, without stressing the hard disk permanently.

Until then, as explained in the linked thread, you have to use content plugins, like TextSearch:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/TextSearch.html

Read the readme, you have to uncomment plaintext searching!

Anyway, make sure that your box is fast enough and the files are small enough...

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Read the readme, you have to uncomment plaintext searching!
If you don't want to install .Net Framework 2.0 (in order to use the included IFilter for searching in .txt files) then just add:

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TXT={CP:ANSI}
to the TextSearch.ini file - it seems to work.
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Post by *xbeta »

thanks a lot.
this requriement is from somebody else.
I have forward these explanations and solutions to him.
and, suggest him to avoid using TC this way.
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