Wanted option : quick search bar

[Jazeker]

Hello all,

Been a long time user and big time fan of TC (ex-WC, that is). It has been my number one program on PC since windows 3.11 ... go figure.

But today I am lacking on feature that would make it the greatest ever built. Users of Mozilla Thunderbird will know the little search bar on top of your mailbox window. the moment you type something in there, your window limits itself to those entries that match your query. The moment you hit the quit icon in that search bar, it removes your query and you see everything in that mail folder again while keeping what you selected during the limited view. That's the feature I really need for TC... Power combined with flexibility.

Searching in a somewhat crowded folder has always been the only pain in TC. Due to the command line bar at the bottom of TC (for which I am thankful) it was not possible to type some letters and hope that TC would move to the file or folder close to what you typed like normal MS Windows explorer windows would do. However, this remained a big problem because I often work with directories containing lots of files.

Anyone agrees with me that this would be a powerful TC feature ?

[Gral]

Did you try CTRL+ALT+letter ?

[ado]

...it was not possible to type some letters and hope that TC would move to the file or folder close to what you typed like normal MS Windows explorer windows would do....

as soon as you realize that what Gral suggested to you to try is probably your missing feature, you can take a look to Configuration -> Options -> Operation: "Quick search" group-box
...and you'll see that you can configure also jumping to files by typing like normal MS Windows explorer windows would do....

ado

[Jazeker]

...it was not possible to type some letters and hope that TC would move to the file or folder close to what you typed like normal MS Windows explorer windows would do....

as soon as you realize that what Gral suggested to you to try is probably your missing feature, you can take a look to Configuration -> Options -> Operation: "Quick search" group-box
...and you'll see that you can configure also jumping to files by typing like normal MS Windows explorer windows would do....

ado

Lovely !!

However... a search box that limits the window results to the matches only would still be super feature

But thanks for the suggestions both of you !

[ado]

you mean....as you type, it will automatically change contents of panel to show only files matching what you typed? ...hm...bad luck
Anyway, there are 2 more good news to you.
1. In Quick Search you can use *
2. Press Alt-F7 search your files and there is button "Feed to listbox", that will transfer your result set into panel (if you'll press it with Shift pressed, it will load it into new TAB)

ado

[Gral]

...
However... a search box that limits the window results to the matches only would still be super feature
...

There is already similar option.
Show -> Custom (CTRL+F12).

[Hacker]

BTW: Has already been discussed:

possibility a)
autohide non-matching files. Problem - needs to reread whole dir if user presses backspace (IIRC Christian's answer correctly); maybe the list could be kept in memory?

possibility b)
select matching files. Not sure if Christian answered this, however, I see a problem with an existing selection.

Roman

[Jazeker]

...
However... a search box that limits the window results to the matches only would still be super feature
...

There is already similar option.
Show -> Custom (CTRL+F12).

Super... just found it myself by accident actually. I must have been sleeping when checking out the previous answer

TC rules... it does not more than that... it just rules.

[szlori]

...
However... a search box that limits the window results to the matches only would still be super feature
...

There is already similar option.
Show -> Custom (CTRL+F12).

Super... just found it myself by accident actually. I must have been sleeping when checking out the previous answer

TC rules... it does not more than that... it just rules.

I just found that in your Thunderbird example, the selection you make in the filtered list is preserved when you come back to see the full list.
This sounds like a useful feature.
In TC however, if you switch from Custom filter (Ctrl+F12) back to Show All (Ctrl+F10), you loose your selection.

Wouldn't this be a nice feature for TC (to preserve the selection)?

[petermad]

2szlori

you loose your selection

You can save your selection to either clipboard (cm_CopyNamesToClip) or file (cm_SaveSelectionToFile) - and then later retrieve it with either cm_LoadSelectionFromClip or cm_LoadSelectionFromFile.

Or you can use cm_SaveSelection and then recall it with cm_RestoreSelection (NUM /).