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fortuinw:
Hi Mathias

Hope that this post finds you well. Not sure if this as been answered before but when doing a "Quick search" is it possible to only display the files or folders that matches the search?

Regards

Mathias (Author):
Sound like you want to filter the view to only show what you type.
Ctrl+F and start typing, the the view is filtering for every character you type.

M:
I'm missing this feature as well.

Using filter view is ineligible for navigating the file list (for instance, you can't use the arrow keys for changing it's selection).

It helps navigating a lot if you can type only the first character(s) and see the matching entries without the need to move yor gaze to the list's end, then scrolling it while looking for the right entry.

Surely you noticed that another very popular * commander already provides that feature.
Hope to find it in MC some day so I can give it another chance :)

Mathias (Author):
Filter while typing or Search while typing are different thing and filtering while typing it is at Ctrl+F.
Search by typing is also there and you can configure how it should work because it is default configured different depending on setup type

Explorer Panel Settings  > Display (tab) > Keyboard handling (category)

Crash+Burn:
The only thing I miss from that "other file-manager" is SubDir BranchView, the ability to create custom Menu (drop-downs) and adding ToolBar menus (drop-downs) to icons on the toolbar (e.g Toolbars within ToolBars). And MC technically has SubDir BranchView, it just doesn't work quite as effectively.

I've tried almost every single File-Manager you can name, except for DOpus. And MC is damned impressive,  both in its customization options (which rivals Speed Commander) and featureset which *almost* rivals - that "other file-manager" --- which MC does without plugins. MC is much like Opera 7-12 in that respect.

If Matthias does implement a GUI accessible QuickFilter, I'd hope it would be regex (or have the option) without needing a damned HACK to do so -- see that "other file manager".

If Matthias actually added those few things, and the GUI QuickFilter, I'd be first in line to donate at least $100. Then I could ditch that "other file manager" completely. Of course time-wise we'd be looking at at least 100 man hours to do so, and unreasonable to expect Matthias would focus on things that aren't relevant/important to him when it would be such a significant time investment.

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