Scrolling through files with find-as-you-type?

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I have tried serching for a way to change the behaviour of the find-as-you-type functionality, but I have been unable to do so.

Currently,if I press 't' three times in a row, Directory Opus 10 will look for a file/folder that starts with 'ttt'. Basically I would like to get the same functionality as Windows Explorer where pressing 't' three times will highlight the third file/folder that starts with 't'.

Is this possible?

Many thanks in advance.

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Toggle Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced: fayt_firstchar_repeat

3

Awesome, thanks.

I did have a look through that list, but nothing jumped out as being the solution to my crisis.

4

You know, that in the default configuration you can press tab in the FAYT field to iterate over the matching files!?

5

I did not know that. Thanks for the tip.

6

You can use F3 as well.

7

I didn't know that. Very useful.

By the way, I liked more the way inline find worked in previous version (as far as I can remember there's new find as you type popup bar since version 10). I mean if I type "t" it selected first file starting with "t" and I could hit left or right arrow key to jump to next file immediately.
I set find as you type close timeout to 1 sec but it has two disadvantages:

  • I still have to wait 1 sec before using arrow keys (after typing letters to find inline)
  • if I use "?" or ">" to enter command mode, I have only 1 second to think about the command name and start typing it. I know that it doesn't disappear once I put at least one character in that popup field but it takes 2 - 3 seconds to me to think what I'm going to type.

Any solutions?

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Hit Esc to close the field. (Note that it only affects left/right, and thus isn't an issue in Details mode.)

Do you literally only get 1 second? I get 5 seconds here before it closes. Either way, you could push ? or > after thinking instead of before. (Once you type at least one letter after the ? or > the field will remain open, too. So just don't push ? or > until you've thought of the command you want to run and it shouldn't be an issue.)

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Yeah, I know, it's just habits, but I can't get used to the new behavior.

One more think I don't like in the new quick find bar. I use list view and when there's no horizontal scroll bar, the find bar covers one file name. See screenshot.
I can see that if I use arrows to select the covered file the bar is shown at the top, but it's one more thing that makes the new quick find less convenient.
I like the way it works in Explorer. It finds the file by letters I type but no bar is displayed.
Unfortunately disabling "require activation key for find mode" disables quick find completely. Maybe another option to search without displaying any bar?

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If it didn't cover a file in List mode, and instead resized the list vertically, the list of files would jump about all over the place. (Note that it will move to the top if a file at the bottom has focus.)

We won't be investing much time in changes that would only benefit List mode unless there is a major problem that needs solving.