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Alt+F7: Sorting previous search results

Posted: 2013-12-24, 02:18 UTC
by MarcinW
I've got a suggestion of a simple, but useful improvement.

I often search for some string in many files with Alt+F7. Search results are sorted as in the current panel - by date, by name, by extension etc. When I realize, that results are sorted by date, but it would be useful to me in this case to have them sorted by name, I must perform the search again.

So I'd like to ask for this: when opening Alt+F7 dialog, during displaying the previous search results, let TC to sort results in the same order as in the current panel at the moment of reopening the dialog. So I could close the search window, change panel sorting, open search window again and have the results sorted in the desired way.

I'm aware that I can feed results to listbox and sort them, but then I've got only one panel to work. I could also open a new tab, but then I have to navigate to the directory, where I was before searching.

Regards

ADDED: You may also consider enabling Ctrl+F3 .. Ctrl+F7 hotkeys in the search window.

Posted: 2014-01-01, 18:50 UTC
by meisl
+1

or even better yet: in the search window, provide column headers as in current panel, and with the same sorting.

Feeding these to the listbox should of course preserve the sorting from the search window (in case it was changed there), rather than going back to the sorting the panel was in before.