I noticed some erratic behavior in FAYT after upgrading to 12, but couldn't really place it until now. Whenever I began typing a fragment of file name, the fragment was marked in each affected file but the Select first matching item seemed not to be working properly. After a couple days of experimenting I found the reason. While it marks matches in the Name column, it tries to jump to matching row based on Group column.
But even that is a bit fuzzy. It works as if it is only looking forward to find a match, that is, having groups ini, opuscert, xlsx, and zip it jumps to ini when I type ini, it jumps forward to opuscert or zip upon typing those but it does not jump back to ini when standing on eg. xlsx. It jumps to the first row in the lister instead.
Is this intentional? I mean, I can imagine a scenario where finding specific group would be the goal but FAYT should search in Name, shouldn't it?
I don't think it jumps based on the Group column, only on the start of the name. (At least not here. I tried grouping by Extension which is what it sounds like you're doing.)
FAYT Selection and Highlighing are independent and work slightly differently:
[ul][li]If Preferences / File Displays / FAYT and Filter Bar Options / Search anywhere in the filename is off, then it will only select things that start with what you type (up to the point where what you type stops matching anything at all).
If it is turned off, then it will select things that contain what you type anywhere in their names.
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[li]If Preferences / File Displays / FAYT and Filter Bar Options / Highlight matches is on, then it will highlight things that contain what you type. The highlighting is independent of the selection behavior.[/li][/ul]
The thing that changed from Opus 11 to Opus 12 is that, previously, the highlighting would be turned off completely if what you typed found nothing to select. Now the highlighting still works even when selection can no longer find anything, and instead of being hidden completely the highlight is slightly dimmed. So you still get an extra visual cue that selection has stopped matching things, but you can now still see and use the highlighting if that was your real reason for typing.
No, you're right, it doesn't jump based on Group column. It jumps based on the Type column. I have ordering set to three columns (it orders by Type, Extension (dirs) and Filename for last) and it looks like Opus jumps based on the column that is sorted first. I had the same sorting conditions in Opus 11 and it jumped based on Filename column, regardless of the Sort order.
Check this short video here, where I'm trying to jump around and changing sort conditions.
Well, it doesn't matter any longer. Thanks again for solving this. It was frustrating as hell. I never realized I used FAYT that much it almost hurt not being able to.