filter search reset - an idea?

[ChrisGreaves]

I am still not fully clued in on filters/macros/bookmarks and the like.

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But here I am again making use of filters ("Picture") while triggering in a new search from the most-recently-used search strings. Of course nothing shows up until after I have slapped my forehead and then selected the filter "Everything".

I suspect that I am not using Everything 1.5 properly.

I suspect that I should have a macro that:-
(a) resets the Filter to Everything and
(b) loads the search string.

I do not ask for a solution at this stage; I am interested in knowing if this (macro with shortcut key) is the way to go about it.
That is, I am confident that I can assign a shortcut key to a macro that resets the filter and loads a search string.
But is there already a better way of doing this?

Thanks, Chris

[therube]

You can double-click Picture (in the status bar) & it will reset the Filter to Everything.

(Then you can Alt+back-arrow to go back to Picture, if you really wanted it.)

[ChrisGreaves]

You can double-click Picture (in the status bar) & it will reset the Filter to Everything.

Cool, Fast, and does exactly what I want.[1]
Thanks!
[1] Have you ever thought of changing your name to "Everything"?
Thanks again, Chris

[NotNull]

Quick tip:

I defined "Home" settings. Whenever I get unexpected results, I press the "Home" keyboard shortcut to get back to a well known starting point.
(after checking the statusbar that is; that fixes most of these issues)


My Home settings are described here.
Pressing 'Alt + Home' reverts back to the Home Settings
(I added a 'Fn + Ctrl' keyboard shortcut for my laptops as this is quite easy to type)


Home settings can be configured under Menu => Tools => Options => General => Home

[tuska]

I use the following settings for this topic:
Bookmark "Default view (ALT+Y)":

- The column widths can be seen here: Menu "Help" > Troubleshooting Information > columns=... (without decimal places)
- Search Commands | / search commands

Code: Select all

/comment - about:home <ENTER> = Filter "Everything"
/comment - ALT+ENTER causes a line break; nop:comment ... can also be used for comments | https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=68068#p68068
/comment - Filter field starting at 35.00 cm, Monitor 24'', Scaling 125%, 1920 x 1280 pixels (native screen resolution)
/columns=[{"name":"Name","width":372},{"name":"Path","width":595},{"name":"Extension","width":74.375},{"name":"Size","width":74.375},{"name":"Total Size","width":89.25},{"name":"Date Modified","width":104.125},{"name":"Date Created","width":104.125},{"name":"Date Accessed","width":133.875},{"name":"Title","width":148.75},{"name":"Subject","width":148.75},{"name":"Comment","width":148.75},{"name":"MyComment","width":148.75},{"name":"Markierungen","width":148.75},{"name":"Tags","width":148.75},{"name":"Authors","width":148.75},{"name":"File List Filename","width":178.5},{"name":"Column A","width":133.875},{"name":"Column B","width":133.875}]
/hide-preview
/hide-folders-sidebar
/hide-bookmarks-sidebar      
/hide-filters-sidebar

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