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[Wish] New sorting order
Posted: 2006-11-28, 21:00 UTC
by m^2
By groups defined in Searches section of TotalCmd.ini.
If I'm looking for music, I usually don't care if it's mp3 or wma.
Similarly with another file types.
Posted: 2006-11-28, 21:29 UTC
by Sombra
I usually don't care if it's mp3 or wma.
A "partial" solution with the plugin
ShellDetails from Lefteous;
You can create a custom column with
[=shelldetails.Type] and sort by it.
Supposing that the wma and mp3 files are associates to the same program, the order should be the wished.
Posted: 2006-11-28, 21:48 UTC
by m^2
It's not mobile. I work on 4 computers (actually more, but with 4 configurations), on 2 of them I have absolutely no rights. And I have almost no associations - I hardly install software - just copy TC (or run it from pendrive) and open everything with F4.
Posted: 2006-11-29, 10:33 UTC
by icfu
You can create groups with plugin FileX:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/FileX.html
If you mustn't use plugins, why don't you just save a search for "*.mp3 *.wma" and call it "Music"?
Icfu
Posted: 2006-11-29, 16:42 UTC
by m^2
icfu wrote:
If you mustn't use plugins, why don't you just save a search for "*.mp3 *.wma" and call it "Music"?
I have them saved. And I know groups of my files by looking at color + additionally at extension. Doing the same with searching would be much slower. And won't give me grouping efect - only "Show one thing and ignore the rest".
Thank you, it's a solution.
Though I don't like it.
It would need translation of my searches to incompatibile expressions - I use RegExps, so automation of this process isn't quick. Manual translation of more than 20 KB is also a problem.
It adds redundant data. Currenly, every statement in my Searches is written 8 times in 4 files. This would add another 3 in 3. And one conversion.
And finally, it sorts by a group name. If I want to have executables at the top and temps, backups, uninteresting at the bottom, I'll have to change names to _Exes, zBackup etc.
The first two problems can be solved with plugin, AFAIK there is a project of a plugin to replace whole searches functionality. But it won't be released shortly (if ever). And plugin can do nothing with the last problem - it has to be done internally.