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hi
I was going to attempt to set up a new button with this fragment I found in the forum to

add a button/hotkey which runs

Find * IN {sourcepath} CONTAINING {dlgstring|Enter search string}

But right clicking on one of the pair of toolbars (above each lister) does not show a "new" option with suboptions like:

new button
new menu
new menu button

All I get is Customize and Factory Reset this toolbar

If I go up to the toolbar above:

Customize
Factory reset this toolbar
Toolbars
Lock the toolbars
Close

Is there some way to restore the "new" functionality - had a quick look in settings but nothing obvious.

Cheers

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First click on "Customize", then the "New" option appears.

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Thanks! It does.

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Adding the button was so straightforward.

I decided to add Find * IN {sourcepath} CONTAINING {dlgstring|Enter search string} to the right hand side of the pair, and it was also added to the left hand side of the pair. There is a question brewing about whether this is the bext way to do it, or is it best to have a single button on the toolbar above and select which pane. Presumably that's just a choice?

Also, when using the search, if a single word is entered into the dialogue box like cat it works perfectly but if cat dog is entered the Find Files window is shown with whatever contents there were from the last time used. Presumably Find doesn't know what to do with the new dog sub-command.

The source is here Quickly search in files - #2 by Leo and I think I need to modify it in some way to keep the multi-word search string intact.

I have a workaround which is just to put "cat dog" with the quotes into the search box but it would be nice to learn how to treat it as a single token within the Find internal command.

As a new user of Obsidian and the use of markdown files it would be great to be able to search the text files, and get even greater use out of dopus.

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This will work better if the string you type has spaces or is the same as another argument name:

Find * IN {sourcepath$} CONTAINING="{dlgstring|Enter search string}"

(It'll still go wrong if you type a quote character into the dialog. I think that would need scripting to avoid at the moment.)

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That works perfectly for me. Thanks!