Here an answer from Everything developer void, who suggests to have a look in the debugger console, as for what might be going wrong.
https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=61032#p61032
This works I think:
@set query= {dlgstring}
Find CLEAR QUERYENGINE=everythingglobal QUERY content:{$query}
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Yes, it does. Thanks a lot, errante!
So the extra search: was the problem?
I think he was searching for that word, since is not a Everything's function. The problem perhaps is because QUERY is a raw type of argument?
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Seems so. I must have overlooked the usage of a macro in Everything, namely mycontentmacro_search_. In the process to copy all the other command strings for my various filters i forgot that one, and it is the only case where a macro is involved. I guess, it is only needed in Everything.
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Cool, glad it's working now! I learned some things myself about Everything's query syntax.
Errante, it was needed for that special case, see
https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=60790#p60790
I had forgotten about that, when i copied over all the other command lines to Opus 13.
Seems this is for using content: within a filter. If you do use within a filter, then it will be easy just use the macro you set instead.
The search: in the Everything filter macro-definition is more or less equivalant with the {dlgstring} of Opus: it gets replaced by the first word (virtually) typed in the Everything search bar.
It is not content: specific.
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Using bookmarks and filters in external programs (like Opus) is supported when using Everything 1.5.
When using Everything 1.4, you will have to use the expanded search of the bookmark/filter instead.
Example:
In Everything 1.5 you can use the pic: searchquery to find all pictures.
In 1.4, you need to look up the definition of that filter (menu:Search => Organize Filters), find the search query ( ext:ani;bmp;gif;ico;jpe;jpeg;jpg;pcx;png;psd;tga;tif;tiff;wmf ) and add that in the Opus search.
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give us a small examples of full command line, please
I solely use Everything 1.5 for quite a long time and do make extensive use of bookmarks.
I love the concept of bookmarks and hopefully DO supports ET 1.5 soon, if the API is ready for usage.
am i the one who's getting an error on this button? it puts a phrase "content: xxx" into search field and there's no search result
and if i already in "Search Results" it does nothing at all!
In Everything, do you have configured > database > Index file content? Under "Include only files" i have set *.doc;*.docx;*.pdf;*.txt;*.xls;*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.rtf;. Maybe that helps.
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