Various Preview Pane Improvements

[alejandro5042]

The preview pane is awesome. Thank you!

I have a few suggestions to further improve the feature with source files (e.g. *.cs or *.cpp):

1. Do not use smooth scrolling. Search Everything is so fast at searching but then scrolling the file takes so long with the mouse wheel
2. Keyboard shortcuts to navigate the preview pane without using the mouse (e.g. Alt + Arrow Keys)
3. Allow it to be docked below the search terms instead of to the side

Nice to haves:

1. Add margin for line numbers
2. Highlight any matched terms when searching with "content:"
3. Allow a quick Ctrl+F within the preview window
4. Use very basic syntax highlighting

[void]

1. Do not use smooth scrolling. Search Everything is so fast at searching but then scrolling the file takes so long with the mouse wheel

I agree. However, The text preview handler is a part of Windows, not Everything.
I do have on my TODO list: implement my own text preview handler.
There might be existing text preview handlers that do not use smooth scrolling. Notepad++ maybe?

2. Keyboard shortcuts to navigate the preview pane without using the mouse (e.g. Alt + Arrow Keys)

This is up to the preview handler to implement. Everything does allow preview handlers to process keystrokes.
Unforunately, not many preview handlers implement support for it.

3. Allow it to be docked below the search terms instead of to the side

Docking / floating window support is coming in Everything 1.5.

1. Add margin for line numbers

This would have to be implemented by the txt preview handler.
I'll consider it when I implement my own.

2. Highlight any matched terms when searching with "content:"

I'll consider highlighting content: terms.

3. Allow a quick Ctrl+F within the preview window

4. Use very basic syntax highlighting

There are probably already existing txt preview handlers to do this.
When I implement my own I will probably have the basic notepad functionality, I'll consider basic syntax highlighting.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[bunburyist]

Considering the age of the original post, I'm guessing that you have no plans for this feature. However, I would like to add +1 vote to the suggestion of implementing some sort of search function within the preview window (i.e. ctrl-F). I often use the normal content search to find a particular text file (mainly java source code), but then want to search around inside that file. Some sort of interactive preview search would be very helpful. As an alternative, you could provide a link to an external (configurable) editor ... this would be equally useful, at least from my POV.

(my apologies if there are other follow-up posts that I've not seen. If you've already addressed this, I would appreciate a pointer to that discussion).

[bunburyist]

Never mind. I just discovered the right-click dropdown menu on the file list pane. This is exactly what I need.

[horst.epp]

Considering the age of the original post, I'm guessing that you have no plans for this feature. However, I would like to add +1 vote to the suggestion of implementing some sort of search function within the preview window (i.e. ctrl-F). I often use the normal content search to find a particular text file (mainly java source code), but then want to search around inside that file. Some sort of interactive preview search would be very helpful. As an alternative, you could provide a link to an external (configurable) editor ... this would be equally useful, at least from my POV.

(my apologies if there are other follow-up posts that I've not seen. If you've already addressed this, I would appreciate a pointer to that discussion).

Its easy to add context menu entries for any file type
and add your prefered editor or viewer this way.
Then you have your tool on a left click on any search result.

[NotNull]

Some sort of interactive preview search would be very helpful. As an alternative, you could provide a link to an external (configurable) editor ... this would be equally useful, at least from my POV.

Maybe this one?