Total Commander

Hi,

what do you think about this suggestion:

The breadcrumb-bar displays the current directory. If I edit this line I would like to be able to change for example the folder
d:\code\C6\bin\*.*
to
d:\code\C6\bin\*.pdf
which would automatically set a custom filtering for the current directory using the given wildcards. This would be much more user friendly then going to Show->Custom... and editing in the dialog clicking buttons etc. pp.
This would allow to use the following key combination:
Pos1 to go to the .. which is the first entry in the current directory
F2 to rename (which allows to edit the current directory)
Just add the wanted wildcard string, ie *.jpg for images and press enter
--> the list of files is filtered now.


Thanks,
Campus

Campus wrote: This would allow to use the following key combination:
Pos1 to go to the .. which is the first entry in the current directory
F2 to rename (which allows to edit the current directory)
Just add the wanted wildcard string, ie *.jpg for images and press enter
--> the list of files is filtered now.

Less steps:
- Ctrl+F12,
- type *.jpg,
- press Enter

Although filtering via editing path bar would be logical step to follow I think that my example shows it is not "must have" for me.

I agree that my suggestion is not the fastest way of doing this but it feels better to me . I simply don't like to get a dialog. In addition I always forget the shortcut and then I have to switch back to the mouse to find the right menu item. So I think my suggestion is just a visible way of doing this as the folder location already displays the filter it should also allow to change the filtering.

Best,
Campus

Though for mousecentric users, it wouldn't hurt for another little button beside [ * ][ ↓ ] to add a file filter.

From what I know of AHK, I believe its possible - though I haven't dabbled in the GUI side yet.