Easy negation of expressions?

[meteorquake]

Hello all!
What is the simplest practical way to negate an OR expression, or in fact any other expression, as it is a common task you look for something and then want to see the remainder.
For example, suppose I have
jo|sam|kim|...
The natural wish is to do something like (which won't work)
!(jo|sam|kim|...)
or perhaps
not:jo|sam|kim|...
not:(jo|sam|kim|...)
as those involve little typing, rather than
!jo !sam !kim !...
which involves altering all the terms, of which there may be many

Thanks in advance!

[void]

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!<jo|sam|kim|...>

< > = grouping

[meteorquake]

Many thanks!!
I definitely need to get into a habit of using angled brackets, I'm sure that will help! I'm rather habituated to thinking in terms of round brackets. I see it's on the right-click.

Whilst we're on the concept the following enhancement ideas come to mind -

* In the search box, you can highlight an area, right-click it, and click invert; this adds !< ... > around your selection (modifying the selection to include it) or removes it if already present.

* Have a command that inverts the entire result list (i.e. effectively an invisible !< ... > or inversion of the resulting search boolean calculation result), then a shortcut could be assigned to it. Typically this would be useful when you're in a folder on the folder bar.

Thanks again, David

[void]

There's Search box -> Right click -> Search Operator -> NOT

I will make this use !< ... > when you have selected text that has an operator.

Thank you for the suggestion.

[meteorquake]

Thanks, that's a good idea.
I suppose the shortcode it gives
!
might also be replaced with
!, !< >
to explain what it will do
David

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1384a will now group your selection before applying the NOT operator.