ghisler(Author) wrote:While standalone sync or lister are useful, a standalone search dialog would be quite pointless. Just open a second copy of TC if you need to perform such a long search.
I strongly disagree. First, starting another copy of TC is simply not enough. You need to reopen the same directory, reselect the same files/subdirs, reenter (or select from history) the same file mask, also (if you search by text contents) you'll have not only to check the checkbox but also get the search text from the history combobox. All this makes using the new TC instance very unpleasant.
And, second, it's really very frequent situation that I started a long search, but suddenly remembered I needed to do something else while search is going. Now I would have to either stop the search, reopen another TC instance and restart search there (and do all the steps mentioned above), or I should leave the first TC searching and open another TC instance to do what I needed… just to suddenly remember that I have to do it in a different directory which was opened in the first TC but not yet saved in wincmd.ini, so it's not present in the second TC. I'll have to reopen it, switch to the sorting mode I need, select the custom coulmns I need, and so on, and so forth. All this is extremely unefficient way of spending time.
Non-modal search dialog would be a great advantage.