QuickSearch eXtended

[brahman]

You can use a workarund by just specifying the bar name and TC looks in the application folder.

History.txt:
"14.02.07 Fixed: OPENBAR command now looks in the program directory if no path to the bar file is given. The same also works when giving just the bar name in the button bar"

This might necessitate an additional entry in BX's ini: "portable=1" or sthg like that, since it will break BX's feature to put the bar in a user specified folder.

But I think it is better to give the user an option to have either a bar in a user specified folder OR have portability than simply breaking TC's portability (a MAJOR feature of TC) without telling the user for the sake of introducing a MINOR feature in BX (namely the ability to have its button bar in a user defined folder).

But of course your great work is in creating BX and QSX and this is in no way overshadowed by this sometimes necessary amicable discussion of the details here.

It is nice to have sysnergy between BX and QSX with this ability to search the startmenu and using TC as a textual launch pad and program starter as described in our posts before which - I humbly regret - have turned slightly OT from the general thread by discussing the details involved.

Regards,

B.

[Samuel]

I will not change this until TC natively supports environmental vars in OPENBAR command.

BTW: BBX uses the new location there if you switch to edit mode and back to view mode once...

[Hacker]

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[Samuel]

Thank you.

[Tahattmeruh]

Can I configure QSx to match all files or folders starting with what i search for and when there is no more match, start looking inside a file or foldername?

[Samuel]

No.

There are technical reasons for that:
TC sends every file in the directory to QSx one by one. All QSx can do is return a boolean (0 or 1) for each file. (filter it or don't filter it)

If I would get a filelist, something like you suggested would be possible. - I also thought about a rated result. QSx then would return a number instead of a boolean. First show all results of group with number 1 then of group with number 2, group with number 3, etc.

Group 1 could be: Files with correct case and starting with the filter.
Group 2 could be: Files currently found by QSx simple search.
Group 3 could be: Files found by QSx similarity search.

This would be great, but currently TC lacks support for grouped results in the QS plugin.

Things you can do:
To search in subfolders press ctrl+b to open branch view and search again.
To search the content of files you may use content plugins in QSx. See the according section in the help file.

[Samuel]

Updated first post: Version 1.5.3 is available.

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Version 1.5.3
 - Added a new [replace] section to the ini where it's possible to replace chars by a string. Could be used to replace diacritics by any other char or string. See "readme > 3. Customize > Replace section" for details and examples.
 - Fixed a bug when converting ANSI wdx output to Unicode. Diacritics were not translated properly.

[Roger Gann]

Excuse me if this has been answered somewhere in the 19+ pages of this thread, but my question is should this pluging work on Win9x (specifically Win98se). I read several pages of this thead and the readme.pdf, but could not find an answer.
Thx in advance.

[Samuel]

I can't test this here. Why you don't just try it. (As far as I see there should be no problems.)

I only tested it in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

[majkinetor !]

Hello

I wanted to ask about new type of search, the one typical for Quick Silver on mac.

I don't know its "offical" name, but it allows you to skip letters, for instance , "dwn" phrase will bring up

Download
padawan

You can implement it as regexp search by adding ".*" between each letter:

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.*d.*w.*n.*

There should be an option if first (or even last) .* should be there or not. This may present better results for some people as you usually start with letter that actually starts the file name, i.e.

"Vim syntax editor.pdf" might be typed as "vax" or "vep" but I will usually not use something like "sed" or "mador" to search it. This is preference thing, some people will like 1st some 2nd preference.


At the end, I want to say that this is the plugin I became hooked on from the first second I installed it.

You really deserved Amen to that!

[Samuel]

Good idea. I will call it "srch".

Implementing it with regex would mean I have to replace chars like: ".", "[", "]"...

Any ideas for an activation char?

[Samuel]

Updated first post: Version 1.6.0 is available.

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Version 1.6.0
 - Added a new search-mode: "srch" (default activation char: "*") With this search you may skip letters of the filename. So the filter "dwn" will find the files "Download.zip" and "Sandra went to town.docx".

Thanks for the good suggestion.

PS: Does anyone have further suggestions for search modes/improvements for QSx?

[m^2]

PS: Does anyone have further suggestions for search modes/improvements for QSx?

How about an email client?

[Peter]

....PS: Does anyone have further suggestions for search modes/improvements for QSx?

GUI for Settings?
Quick change / toggle between "match_beginning"?

Peter

[Andreas]

Please check the .pdf!
Seems to be destroyed?!