[Solved] Select Filter

[w64bit]

Is there any setting to use in order to disable automatic saving for:
select_filter_last_filter
select_filter_history

[therube]

OK, now we need a 'Display Only Selected Results' toggle.
Matter of fact, that would be really nice even aside from any Select Filter.

So any time you have (in some way or another) selected multiple results, a hotkey that only displays those particular items, do what you want to do with said files, all together as selected, or only on particular ones, then hotkey back to where you were before, displaying all items.


So it would be something like an Omit, in that it would Omit anything not selected.
Clear that & you're back to where you started (+/- any changes made during that time).

[froggie]

I am missing something. I get the dialog, but no results at all. How is this used?

[therube]

Maybe your returned results are "out of focus".
So it appears that nothing has happened.

Hit the 'hide/show highlighted results' toggle & you should see what you're missing .
(Well, since you can't do that, instead...)

Check the statusbar & see if it doesn't say something along the lines of "36 objects selected".
Or just scroll down through the results window & see if various items are not in fact selected.


And you are on 1338a.

[harryray2]

Same sort of problem, sometimes it appears to work, sometimes not. It also gives results not related to the query.

[froggie]

The debug console shows no sign of a search

[NotNull]

Select Filter doesn't change the search. It selects files/folders in the resultlist to do something with (copy/delete/...

Example from my system:

• In the searchbar, type "c:\program files\"
  Statusbar: 1558 object
• Press ' CTRL + SHIFT + A'
• Fill in like:

  

  2023-02-16 22_58_08-_c__program files__ - Everything (1.5a) 1.5.0.1338a (x64).png (12.77 KiB) Viewed 6593 times

• Press OK
  Statusbar: 3 of 1558 objects selected

When scrolling through the list, it turns out that Everything 1.5a (folder), Everything-1.5a.ini and Everything64.exe (files) are marked.
Now pressing 'CTRL + C' will put these 3 selected results on the clipboard, ready to copy them elsewhere (not a good idea in this case, but you get the idea)

Clicking another file will remove the made selection, just like when these files were marked manually.
In the statusbar, the text "3 of 1558 objects selected" is gone.

[froggie]

Thank you NotNull, for that clear explanation of how this is supposed to work.
But it still doesn't work for me.

Example:
Search and then manually select 3 objects from the results.
Statusbar says 3 of 146 objects selected.
Press ' CTRL + SHIFT + A' to get the Select filter, clear all checks, select "Select files & Folders" and enter a search term and then OK
Statusbar says 3 of 146 objects selected.
Press ' CTRL + SHIFT + A' to get the Select filter,check "Clear Selection", select "Select files & Folders" and enter a search term and then OK
Statusbar says 146 of 146 objects selected

The search term is ignored (should have matched 2 of the results), but the clear works.

[void]

Moved from Select Filter.

Thank you for all the feedback.



Select Filter is a bad name.
I'll likely rename this to Select Find or something better..



The Select Filter will select items in your results matching the specified filter.

It allows you to perform a secondary search without altering your primary search.

OK, now we need a 'Display Only Selected Results' toggle.

I will consider an option to show selected items only.

I'm playing with a command to focus the next / previous selected item too.
Possibly with the F4 / Shift + F4 key.

Is there any setting to use in order to disable automatic saving for:
select_filter_last_filter
select_filter_history

I will consider adding an option to disable this history.
Thank you for the suggestion.

[void]

The search term is ignored (should have matched 2 of the results), but the clear works.

Thank you for the issue report froggie,

I'll add some debugging information in the next update to try and work out what is going on.

[therube]

Select

a filter matching 0 items
is not obvious
because statusbar will show (## objects)
(which is the total of all objects)

- oh, i see

if Select finds something, it says:
(xx objects SELECTED)
if Select doesn't find anything, it simply says:
(xx objects)

- ok, but until you realize that...

[therube]

Select
- works well with Rename

so long as you can Select enough common & enough unique (so as to not get unwanted results)
(or so long as you create a RegEx to do so )

[therube]

Select
- Alt+R "hotkey" toggle (whatever you call it) for _R_egEx

[therube]

Select
- somehow, selects 'Select folders only' - sometimes (by itself) - maybe?

[void]

The search term is ignored (should have matched 2 of the results), but the clear works.

I found the issue froggie,

Everything is not supporting special sorts yet (for example: mixing files/folders, recent changes or run history)

I have a fix soon.



Thank you for the feedback therube,

a filter matching 0 items
is not obvious
because statusbar will show (## objects)
(which is the total of all objects)

Maybe Everything should play the system beep on no matches?

- Alt+R "hotkey" toggle (whatever you call it) for _R_egEx

I have Alt keyboard shortcuts available in the next alpha update.

Thank you for the suggestions.

- somehow, selects 'Select folders only' - sometimes (by itself) - maybe?

I've put this on my TODO list to watch.
I haven't seen it yet, but there's probably a setting being overwritten.



I've renamed Select Filter to Find and Select.
F4/Shift + F4 to navigate selection is working well.
Find and Select in Everything will be close to the Find and Select in Excel. Even Excel uses F4 to navigate selection.

[therube]

how do you match a drive letter, only, like if you have these displayed, Y:\X\Y & W:\Y\X
you can do y\, but finds both items from both Y: & W:
> Y:

oh, that's why
i suppose it is not searching directories, at all
& in that respect, 'Select folders only'
will never return any results

(heh. no wonder i couldn't figure it out.)

or maybe not, in any case, it's not too clear

so... you must have:

RegEx
\ (back slashes, not forward, /)
\\ (two back slashes are required, not 1)
backslash is required even if you're looking for just "Y:"
(as in not Y:\X, as in you can't just enter driverletter:, you need driveletter:\\)

so... Y:\\ works

& in general, RegEx will requires \\ for path parts

without RegEx, i still haven't figured out that just find driveletter ?

(heh. no wonder i couldn't figure it out .)

[therube]

- is modal

Should it be non-modal ?

i guess it's modal because it is actually related to a particular window,
where other dialogs (history, undo, index journal ) are "global" in scope

so in that respect, maybe it should not be non-modal

but then, would it make sense to be non-modal - to the particular window?

[therube]

'*' key to Reverse selected / deselected

(not sure how such a key would work out
as Select dialog is focused on Filter:
- maybe * could be eaten - no it couldn't, cause it's a wildcard
so maybe it would have to be a checkbox?

that way if you have Y\X item selected, Reverse would select X\Y
(actually, anything not selected)

[therube]

Select causes statusbar to no longer display Size.
The area where the size should display is there, only nothing displays.


statusbar shows
x Objects selected

but at that point,
no longer shows Size
(which would be nice to still show)

[therube]

Possibly with the F4 / Shift + F4 key

Odd selection, I'd think.

F3 / Shift + F3 would be more typical, I'd think.
(Or even n / p.)

[void]

Thank you for the feedback therube,

Should it be non-modal ?

I will consider a modeless dialog. (like Excel/Visual Studio)
For now, it will stay as a modal dialog as the selection is applied to the current results.

'*' key to Reverse selected / deselected

The best option here is to use the main Edit -> Invert Selection option.

I will consider an option to invert the selection, or allow a NOT operator from the Find and Select dialog.

I forgot to mention that I want to add full search syntax support, eg:

abc !123 size:10mb..20mb

It's on my TODO list, for now, only the simple filename filter will be supported.

Select causes statusbar to no longer display Size.
The area where the size should display is there, only nothing displays.

Ah, I'm not calculating the selection size correctly.
I have put this on my Things to fix list.

Possibly with the F4 / Shift + F4 key

Odd selection, I'd think.

This is what Excel and Visual Studio use.
F3 / Shift F3 is for find.

[void]

Thanks again for the all the feedback,

Everything 1.5.0.1339a makes the following changes to Find and Select:

Renamed from Select Filter to Find and Select.

Fixed an issue with selecting mixed/run-history/recent-change sorted results.
Fixed an issue with folders only being set when opening a new search window.
Fixed an issue with calculating the total selection size.



Search history now obeys your Tools -> Options -> History -> Enable Search History setting.
Previous search history can be cleared under Tools -> Options -> History -> Search History -> Clear Now.



Added a customizable command to focus the next/previous selection (F4 / Shift + F4 by default)
Added debug information.
Added Alt keyboard shortcuts.



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