Define colors by type: saved regex text search?

[hi5]

I have some log files which I want to highlight automatically if they have certain error messages in them as only 1 in 10 will have an error or so and I don't want to keep opening them/searching each time.
So I've setup a saved search:

search for: log.txt
find text, regex 2: (error|fault|crash|etc)

when doing a normal search (alt-F7) it works. When I use this to "Define Colors by Filetype", select the saved search, it only applies the search for e.g. simply highlights all "log.txt" files but does not use the "find text". Not all log.txt files have errors so highlighting them all is not what I want.

What am I missing? Or isn't it possible (yet).

[Dalai]

I guess searching in files isn't done when coloring files for speed reasons, i.e. it would be (very) slow just to refresh a directory.

Regards
Dalai

[hi5]

mmm but with a "file mask" such as log.txt there will always only be one for each folder and they are <10kb logs (in my case) so quick to "read".

So probably have to prepare a script which would add a file comment which then could be used for the "define colors by filetype", but that always means an additional step (unless I "watch" for the creation of log.txt in the background). Not ideal.

[Gral]

Use TextSearch plugin - http://totalcmd.net/plugring/textsearch.html

[hi5]

Thanks for the hint: PCREsearch does the trick as well, I had forgotten about it.

[hi5]

So perhaps as a suggestion: when a saved search is used for "Define Colors by Filetype" show a warning/information message indicating that "Not all rules of this saved search will be applied" when it includes an option that isn't "valid" - in this case the TC RegEx 2 search.

There might be other options that wouldn't work for the "Define Colors by Filetype".

[Dalai]

I don't think the RegEx 2 search is the issue but the searching for text as such. Some kind of hint/warning would be good, though.

Regards
Dalai