Quick search enhancements / Total Commander

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Seems like a logical thing to add to the Search Field. For now, have you tried using the filter field? You can type *.txt into it to hide all non-matching files.

It's an alternative way to navigate, yep, also existing in TC. But it's no replacement for quick searching.

Maybe that should be configurable. (F3 is standard, like Xyzzy says.)

This is what I always mean of course, just as an option. I don't want to annoy users which are used to Bill's way of thinking, be it intelligent or not. I agree that F3 is a well known shortcut for finding the next match in several Windows applications, but it's not a good one for preventing tendosynovitis in a file manager.

I usually use the down cursor to move to the next file but that, of course, isn't the same as what F3 does. (I didn't even realise F3 worked until now. )

You're welcome.

You can create hotkeys to go to drive letters (or any other path) via Customize->Keys. You can also assign a hotkey to a filter field. (After adding the filter field to your toolbar, edit it and you'll see a place to define its hotkey.) Those two things combined should give the desired result.

Misunderstanding: I wasn't talking about drive letters but the possibility in TC to start quick searching by typing Ctrl+Alt+X (for Example Ctrl+Alt+X when the word starts with X). If this was possible in DO, the command line could popup when entering a char and entering > first would not be necessary.

There's a command field in Opus that you can add to your toolbars. Also, > into Opus 9 then the pop-up Search Field turns into a command field.

The problem is that neither the command field nor the popup give me a possibility to not close the prompt after executing, am I missing something? For example I enter "ipconfig", the console opens and closes. In TC I press Shift+Enter and the console stays open.

Also this functionality should be directly integrated into the pathbar control, the separate command field is awkward. Too much controls not only waste space but are also counterproductive for the workflow.

And another downside which is well known from the past: Activating quick search with ">" is bad on (not only) German keyboard layouts because you have to press Shift, the same problem as here with the aliases:
[Alternative for alias trigger /)

Jon had told me to make this special hotkey for English kb layouts configurable (by email a year ago or so) but it looks like it hasn't happened. Are there no international testers working for DO? Such basic flaws simply shouldn't make it to a final version.

Thanks for your input.

Icfu