Total Commander

Hello,

I often do searches in various source codes, and for that I select several specific folders with project repositories I am interested in in the general develop folder. I tried to save the search, but the current selection is not persisted. On saved search load, I see that the "Only search in selected directories/files" is checked and cannot be unchecked, but nothing is actualy searched/found.

Please feel free to categorize as new feature proposal if this is not an actual bug.

Best regards,
Lukáš Soukup

Sorry, this isn't currently planned. It would have to be done in an external file, and you can already do this now:
1. Save the selection to file
2. In the search, put the following in the "Search in" field:
@c:\path\filelist.txt

Moderator message from: ghisler(Author) » 2025-01-22, 15:09 UTC

This function does not actually exist. There is only (but working perfect) the opposite. Search everything and exclude the unwanted directories.

2JOUBE
I think zombeek meant the files/directories selected in the main program, for which there is a checkbox "search only selected".

ghisler(Author) wrote: 2025-01-22, 15:18 UTC 2JOUBE
I think zombeek meant the files/directories selected in the main program, for which there is a checkbox "search only selected".

That's clear, "the current selection is not persiste". But to have a persistent selection, that, what I wrote, does the trick. (You select *.* and after the | you exclude all directories that you don't need: the ones you want remain. And you can save that.)

Once apon a time I make a suggestion about this issue in a similar form.

ghisler(Author) wrote: 2025-01-22, 15:09 UTC ...
2. In the search, put the following in the "Search in" field:
@c:\path\filelist.txt
...

Thank you, Christian, it does the trick. SInce this is one-time-only preparation step, the only downside is the need to have the file somewhere, but the root folder where I do the searches seems fine.

I fiddled a bit more with the search dialog and found out that I can enter several directories, semilocon separated, into the "Search in" field. Saving this search also works.

Thank you for your support.