Hi,
I've been wondering if we can set the incremental search (find-as-you-type) not to trigger in some circumstances: it's nice when we're looking for a particular file, but lets say a folder contains multiple files with the same comon prefix:
we have several files beginning with letter P, and, in the original Explorer, if I held down the "p" key pressed, it would scroll among all files beginning with P. At Dopus, however, the incremental search field will be filled with "pppppp".
How do we prevent that in order to allow the selection marquee to swift among the files with the common starting letter instead of filling the field with repeated letters?
It already works the way you want, or at least should.
If you type p then 'p' will appear in the FAYT field and the first file starting with p will be selected. If you type p again then nothing will be added to the FAYT field (it still displays just 'p') and the second file starting with p will be selected.
That's how it works here, anyway. (Although only when nothing else is selected. i.e. The "current" file starting with p has to be the only one selected.)
I either didn't understand (although your post was quite clear for a n00b like me ) or there is tome other obscure problem:
As you can see, I have some files starting with H in that folder, but if I hold down the H key the search-on-the-fly field gets filled with H's instead of having the selection go quickly from the first file with H to the other. by the way, what's "FAYT field"?
Duh, sorry for the extreme Dumbness about the FAYT
But there must be a lil misunderstanding: doesn't matter if i hold down or press "moderately" like h h h (releasing between each). In either case the FAYT will trigger. If this is not possible, then please take this as a suggestion!
Just to see the exact way I mean, open explorer, go to a folder with some files with the same starting letter then hold down that letter. You'll see, it's very time saving!
If works for me whether I hold the key down or push it rapidly or slowly, and whether my keyboard repeat speed is set very low or very high. I can't make it not work.
This may be too late for the original post, but might be helpful for someone else.
Perhaps the problem is the setting under "Miscellaneous - Advanced" in the Preferences editor (see screenshot).
If "fayt-firstchar-repeat" is set to false, dopus will assume you want to find files named ppppp (or whatever), if true, it will assume you want to find each consecutive instance of a file whose name starts with p for each additional time you press p.
This way you also don't have to turn the fayt function off.
Like Leo, it works for me the way xaveco asked for with FAYT still enabled... If I disable the Advanced option mentioned just above by J.F. then it switches to how it's working for xaveco...
NICE CATCH J.F.
This is of course exactly what that particular advanced option is for... and it's set to TRUE by default, so... to xaveco; be careful when changing advanced options .
) or there is tome other obscure problem:
