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Mathias (Author):

--- Quote from: Crash+Burn on June 08, 2014, 06:43:24 ---GUI QuickFilter

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What is GUI QuickFilter for you ?

Ulfhednar:
I went thru a pile of dual-pane file managers.  My personal benchmark for file manager was DOpus.  Had MC not come along I would be using that I think.

As to searching - I found the features in the recent builds of xyplorer novel : -
Click and Search
Tag Clouds
Ignore Articles When Sorting

Not had time to try them, not sure if there is any real advantage to me,  as far as the implementation goes, compared to using MCs search functions. 
The ctrl+f field gives me most of the filtering I can think of right now, & the 'multiscript to button' feature allows me a regex or 2 to be applied for regular specific filtering ops.

As to donations - is there a donate button planned, or am I just not finding it?

Crash+Burn:
There are a handful of things that I think TC has gotten 100% correct, as far as implementation and configuration is concerned.

GUI QuickFilter is probably vague, and even in that case TC isn't optimum as it's own implementation refuses to permit Regex - even though it has a regex library and you can use it almost everywhere else. Anyways,  Idigress somewhat...

GUI QuickFilter (with Regex), a simple ":" as the leading character within MC's [*.*] Filter in the panel status bar, to indicate using Regex instead of "glob" or Windows CMD like ? (single char) * (any char).

As is the Filter implementation already has a number of fancier-than-most filtering type capabilities. What would perfect it (nearly) would be the "funnel" icon when clicked, toggles between:
1) Hide All Files that don't match 'this string' (where the string *could* be a regex). OR
2) Jump to the file that matches 'this string' --- instead of hiding files.
3) A single Toggle checkbox to the left of the [*.*] filter, that enables the filter to be
---> a) Normal: Only show files that match.
---> b) Exclusion: Only show files that DO NOT match (the [*.*] filter).
The "toggle state" of the Funnel Icon would be static.

The ability to filter OUT and filter IN is something that few tools enable --- yet its a very powerful concept, similiar (to me, in power at least) in how
1) EmEditor allows one to do multiple regex's in batch (one after the other), along with an interface to save those regex batches for future use.
2) Most old usenet readers scoring capabilities.
3) Opera M2 mail's filtering
4) Any tool that allows multiple 'FIND' criteria, where the match can be indicated as:
---->  EqualTo, >=,<=, <, >, NotEqualTo.

[OT]:
I frequently find myself annoyed at online shopping for instance, as almost no Store (none that I have seen at least) allow one to filter OUT, only the ability to filter IN (exclude things that don't have X-trait).

Mathias (Author):

--- Quote from: Crash+Burn on June 08, 2014, 20:52:07 ---GUI QuickFilter (with Regex), a simple ":" as the leading character within MC's [*.*] Filter in the panel status bar, to indicate using Regex instead of "glob" or Windows CMD like ? (single char) * (any char).

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Ahh So you mean that the ViewFilter should support RegExp.. I got that on my list but it is not so easy. specially the performance bit. since regexp are extremely slow compared to normal wildcard matching.


--- Quote from: Crash+Burn on June 08, 2014, 20:52:07 ---The ability to filter OUT and filter IN is something that few tools enable --- yet its a very powerful concept, similiar (to me, in power at least) in how
1) EmEditor allows one to do multiple regex's in batch (one after the other), along with an interface to save those regex batches for future use.
2) Most old usenet readers scoring capabilities.
3) Opera M2 mail's filtering
4) Any tool that allows multiple 'FIND' criteria, where the match can be indicated as:
---->  EqualTo, >=,<=, <, >, NotEqualTo.

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Filtering mail and files are a bit different. :)
I think it is a bit overkill. specially for what it would require to add something like that.
Might be able to add something so it can be done by script, But doing it with UI support and all
would require to much work for something that almost no-one would use.


--- Quote from: Crash+Burn on June 08, 2014, 20:52:07 ---[OT]:
I frequently find myself annoyed at online shopping for instance, as almost no Store (none that I have seen at least) allow one to filter OUT, only the ability to filter IN (exclude things that don't have X-trait).

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I think that it is because almost no users would do that. To complicated for most normal users. And adding a complex feature for the 1% cost to much, cost being the developing time, Most dev teams focus on what would bring most value to most users. Special 1% features are added if times allows it, and often there is not much time left for them. I worked on so many dev projects and it is always like that. special 1% feature are always pushed down the list and almost never added. Cost to much.

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