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Ralf_Reddings

I remember in a version or two ago, the $directory: property, from Window Title Format , used to be the full path of the currently selected directory, so long as multiple directories were not active.

With the latest release, only the active directories name is shown, even if only a single directory ...

Ralf_Reddings

I am trying to spawn new windows that do not inherit their look, panel, etc etc from the most recently active window (I think this is a default feature). I can determine most things with the command line but I am missing a flag that I can use to show or hide the header (toolbar for details or ...

Ralf_Reddings

huh what do you know, so it was the just the Everything filter. Thanks for the help

Ralf_Reddings

When there is a filter name showing on the right of the status bar, if I double click the filter name, the filter name dissapears from the status bar, and also, that filter is removed from the active search.

I am wondering if its possible to peform this action with the keyboard? As in clear the ...

Ralf_Reddings

Am on the latest alpha release and sorely missing the following commands:
- move the active tab to the left
- move the active tab to the right most of the list of tab, so that it becomes the last tab
- move the active tab to the right
- move the active tab to the left most of the list of tabs, so ...

Ralf_Reddings

Hi,

try
Everything Options - 1.5.0.1386a (x64) > Advanced > search_edit_dropdown_button_wide > Value for search_edit_dropdown_button_wide: 0
(Alt+Down Arrow has the same function as the drop-down arrow).

tuska thank you for that solution, it worked. I dont know how I overlooked that ini ...

Ralf_Reddings

With the recent update, this icon got bigger and now its just distracting.
I would like to turn it off anyways, as I already have a hotkey for showing the search history list.
But, I have not found an ini setting for turning it of though. Anyone know how I can turn it off?

https://i.imgur.com ...

Ralf_Reddings

Currently the folders tree is being sorted alphabetically, and I have not found a means to set the sort order by something like date created or date modified.

There are a lot of cases where I need to sort by date created or date modified, etc etc. For example today, I needed to go through a series ...

Ralf_Reddings

When you click one or more folders on the folders side bar, the folders will be shown in the status bar and the search is limited to these folders.

with the search ini session_store_restore_last_closed_window set to true, if I close the window and then try to open a new, the previous window is ...

Ralf_Reddings

@therube
Thank you for the alternative, I would not mind to use a temporary solution until Everything adds a semicolon delimited lists but this solution is using multiple tabs. In any case, I will just use a single folder for now.

@void
Very glad to hear it, this would be perefect!

Ralf_Reddings

I am trying to figure out how to pass multiple paths to -explore .

The following works, the status correctly shows users :
everything -explore 'c:\users'
But trying to open multiple paths with powershell 7, only the first path is received. So the status bar instead of showing users|temp , it only ...

Ralf_Reddings

Pardon me void, I prematurely reported this issue. it was indeed the scope that tripped me, upon setting it to global its now working.

Ralf_Reddings

The path column has two ini settings to allow it to be used to drag and drop items into it, the ini settings are:
allow_path_ldrop_modifier_key=1
allow_path_ldrop_modifier_key=1

I think it would be very useful if the 'parent' column also had these two settings.

This would mean, in instances ...

Ralf_Reddings

Okay this clarifies things much better now. Looking forward to see how Everything comes along for sure

Ralf_Reddings

For example if I use the command "explore in everything" once to limit the current results to only c:\temp , with status bar showing temp , if I then select c:\temp\foo\bar.jpg and use "explore in Everything ", nothing happens.

I am expecting the search results to only be limited to c:\temp\foo ...

Ralf_Reddings

Are there plans for 1.5 to support user extensibility?

Some kind of extensive scripting interface, to develop third party extensions or plug-ins for implementing new features into the GUI.

This scripting interface could be used to
Create a new panels
Pre-process raw data such as xml/json data ...

Ralf_Reddings

Thats great to hear, cheers!

Ralf_Reddings

@Void
@NotNull

I should be clear I am not looking to find duplicates. The file names sharing similar names is incidental. I am merely looking to limit each folders
child items to an Nth count.

Normally, when you search for folders in Everything, Path-list:C:\temp\blue;C:\temp\red;C:\temp\green ...

Ralf_Reddings

I have a list of files inside c:temp like so:
C:\temp\blue\1.GIF
C:\temp\blue\3.MP4
C:\temp\blue\2.JPG
C:\temp\blue\4.PDF
C:\temp\blue\5.MD

C:\temp\green\1.GIF
C:\temp\green\2.JPG
C:\temp\green\3.MP4
C:\temp\green\4.PDF
C:\temp\green\5.MD

C:\temp\red\1.GIF
C:\temp\red\2.JPG
C:\temp\red\3.MP4
C ...

Ralf_Reddings

As much as I am eager to get into the SDK, my skill sets are just not there yet unfortunately. But I intend to get to it eventually.

I was not aware of layout: , I tested it out. Unfortunately it is a search function and not a search command, it requires to be part of the search for it to work ...

Ralf_Reddings

Oh that is what is for? I understand now, Also I misjudged it, its not a "zoom" icon but a search icon

Ralf_Reddings

Currently its possible to hide the following panels per window
The bookmarks side bar
The filters side bar
The viewer side bar
The status bar
The menu bar

Buts its not possible to hide the search edit and the list views header per window. This makes it hard to create unique Everything ...

Ralf_Reddings

Can confirm that did it. Thanks.

Ralf_Reddings

I could not find an INI setting for it. I am on the latest alpha.

Ralf_Reddings

I understand this function is there to aid users and it has aided me quite a bit when I was getting started with Everything but now I just find it hindering me.

So for example if am working with media files, I can call bookmark to only show width , height , framerate and length in the status bar ...

Ralf_Reddings

Yes that did it, perfect. thanks.

Ralf_Reddings

cheers void! thats great to hear.

Ralf_Reddings

How to print the FPS as 24 rather than 24000 on the status bar?
/statusbar_selected_item_format=$frame-rate:
The above prints it as 24000 , I tried the following to get it to print as 24 :
/statusbar_selected_item_format=[ceiling:$frame-rate:] this seems to have no effect
/statusbar_selected ...

Ralf_Reddings

I have been using the advanced rename dialog and I really like, especially how it can be accessed independent of Everything.

I have some suggestions to share on how it could be improved.

PS: Pardon my bad attempts are photoshopping my example images.

Use a details view control to display both ...

Ralf_Reddings

Yes that did it, cheers!

Ralf_Reddings

Brilliant, that gives me exactly what I was trying to figure out, thank you!

Ralf_Reddings

I am trying to remove unicode characters from a selected list of file names. My regEx is not so good. I tried \P{Latin} but the the Latin blocks seems to not have numbers and characters like _ as part of it, then though this page says it does.

I am essentially looking for something that strips ...

Ralf_Reddings

Is there a bug at work here? I am using alpha 1.5.0.1379a , I can customise the status bar for when there is no items selected with :
/statusbar_format=no selection
And the string "no selection" is correctly shown, when I dont have anything selected. This is as expected.
but /statusbar_selected ...

Ralf_Reddings

One thing that is sorely missing in the Windows world is the ability to readily expand a directory Item like you can on Mac OS.

https://www.detroitlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/directory.gif

After many requests put to the developers of Directory Opus, it has this feature too now.

https ...

Ralf_Reddings

I cant believe this is actually possible now, this will help greatly in managing Everything, thank you for quickly addressing these suggestions, much appreciated.

Ralf_Reddings

Thank you for clarifying the search command and for your considerations. Looking forward to it!

Ralf_Reddings

I forget to clarify, I understand recent in window changes being lost upon request to reload settings, my main concern is circumventing the Database invalidation/reloading bottleneck.

Ralf_Reddings

Many times one needs to reload one or more config files after modifying them outside of Everything
This is especially useful for when you need to mass edit a number of bookmark or macro items, to correct redundant paths, drives etc or even as part of a build system that is used to unify things ...

Ralf_Reddings

That was it, I updated and its working now. Thank you.

Ralf_Reddings

I tried no-omit-results in the bookmark, it does not seem to be having any effect.

For example with OMIT shown in the status bar and appadata in the omit results, manually typing the following does not show appdata folder or its items:
no-omit-results:appdata/roaming
I also tried, which seems to ...

Ralf_Reddings

I want create bookmarks then activate said bookmarks with a macro but often, I have OMIT on via index > Enable Result Omissions and so it conflicts with some macros.

I want to bypass OMIT in a bookmarks definition, so that even though OMIT is present on the status bar, omitted items will be shown ...

Ralf_Reddings

I think I have been misunderstood, perhaps I did not explain myself well.

Ideally there should be a option to hide a entry, whether its a folder or a bookmark item, from the bookmarks panel in the sidebar.

The user can still see all bookmark folders and items, hidden or not, in the "Organize ...

Ralf_Reddings

Thats great to hear, I will look into these alternatives that you suggested as well, thanks.

Ralf_Reddings

The bookmarks panel is brilliant, it took me a while to see its potential.
With the current option to assign a icon to a bookmark folder/bookmark etc its really neat.

It would be nice if we can hide a given bookmark (or bookmark folder)/filter from its respective panel. For example I have a few ...

Ralf_Reddings

With the new panel additions to this side bar. When there is more than one panel visible in the sidebar, its no longer possible to toggle the sidebar's visibility with a single command/key.

I can manage to toggle the sidebar's visibility by first toggling the bookmarks, filter or folders panels ...

Ralf_Reddings

Hey looks like that version was just recently released, I will take a close look for sure!

Ralf_Reddings

This is great! Yes I will be making use of that alternative, cheers!

Ralf_Reddings

Currently Everything allows you to assign Menu commands, Bookmarks, Filters etc etc to only standard keyboard shortcuts such as f1 or ctrl+alt+f1 . I think, for some of us, it will be common to run out of keyboard keys that we can assign commands to.

In my case, I try to avoid using two modifier ...

Ralf_Reddings

Perfect. Thanks!

Ralf_Reddings

A GUI command and a command line to duplicate the current window would be really nice to have.

If one has a window with a number of tabs, one or more side bars open and even a file list opened. Duplicating the window, should create a exact duplicate of the recent window.

I am currently finding ...

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