When you type some letters in the search mask and you don't use asterisks, Everything search for those letters even inside words. E.g.: "font" finds "Best fonts.txt"
When you add an asterisk, it stops searching inside the words and assumes that what you are typing is at the beginning of the filename. E.g.: "font*t" won't find "Best fonts.txt" (although it still finds "fonts.txt"). In order to find this file while using asterisks you need to add one at the beginning and one at the end E.g.: "*font*t*" finds "Best fonts.txt".
I suggest to modify this behavior in order to make the asterisks at the beginning and at the end unnecessary. I would like to type "font*t" and find also "Best fonts.txt". This is very useful to select a specific class of files by their extension.
Asterisk behavior in search masks
Re: Asterisk behavior in search masks
Thank you. I will post the solution here too. To find the file "Best fonts.txt" by searching for fonts and specifying the txt extension you need to use a space instead of an asterisk:
- "font .txt" will find "Best fonts.txt" and also "fonts I like.txt"
- "font*.txt" will find only "fonts I like.txt" because it assumes that you want only filenames that start with "font"