I still don't really understand the purpose of the toolbar behind all this. If you want to quickly see files starting with, say, X, just push the X key and you'll jump to them instantly. What's the need to filter all the other files out all the time or do it via toolbar rather than keyboard?
I'm not sure what we can do anyway, unless you're proposing we add another type of filter on top of all the others, which I think would be more confusing than useful. (It's hard enough to understand as it is with all the different types of filters we have.)
(The old filters you were using before are tied to folder formats so I don't think we can change their behaviour when you change folders without it having some unwanted effects.)
Jon & I chatted about this and had an idea. The quickfilter / Filter Bar could automatically disable partial matching if the wildcard starts or ends with a *. Then you can leave partial matching on in general, but it'll automatically assume you don't want it in those cases (and there's no reason to put a * at the start or end if you're intending to use partial matching, so that should be okay).
That would work, I don't see any issue having it that way.
If I'm using my android tablet to remote desktop, I can't really press a hot key without taking up 70% of the screen. Mouse movements make this work far more efficient for just that purpose. Sometimes I don't want to use a keyboard because I have my feet on the table.
So, I've implemented the idea we had, where partial matching is automatically disabled if the wildcard starts and/or ends with a *, and that seems to work well.
Once the next update is out you'll be able to use patterns like A* while leaving partial matching turned on.
