Total Commander

When changing rules in a saved search there is one thing that annoys me again and again. When I want to remove the first or any other rule which is not the last I have to remove all rules behind that rule. In the worst case this means starting from the beginning.
It's also not clear that "less rules" will remove the last rule in the list.

I see two possible solutions.

1) Add plus and minus buttons right to each rule.
Here is an example screenshot which illustrate how the problem is solved in Mozilla Thunderbirds' filter edit dialog.
http://www.lefteous.de/tc/beta7/bugshots/thunderbird_filter_edit.png

2) Make each rule selectable and change the "less rules" button into "remove this rule".

I'm of course open to any other solution that will improve the current situation.

The same applies to the "Change attributes" dialog, where you can only remove the last set of plugin attribues with the "Less attributes" button.

But in the "Change attributes" dialog there already is a [+] button (with another purpose) - so for uniformity I think a "Delete active rule"/"Delete active attributes" would be the best.

It would also conform with the "Delete active column" in the Custom columns setup.

But in the "Change attributes" dialog there already is a [+] button (with another purpose)

Yes this is true. Some time ago I requested to move adding fields to an external window which would be much more convenient than the current approach.

Big fat support! This annoys me too quite often.

2petermad

I absolutely agree in every point! In fact, I was about to post almost exactly what you said, but you were faster, as I saw after previewing my post

So I also strongly vote for making the rows selectable in the search- and 'change attributes'-dialogs. This would be easy, intuitive and consistent with the custom-column behaviour as you stated.

2Lefteous
Hm, can you specify this a bit more or point me to the thread? I don't get exactly how this should work with an external window...

I'm aware of this problem. In the custom columns configuration dialog, you can select the line which you want to remove, would that help?

would that help?

Sure.

Yes, this would help indeed. I too would go fine with the behaviour as it is implemented in the custom column dialog.