Color Filter for folder w/o children by absolute path

[Filehero]

Hi,

I guess it's too late and I'm simply missing the obvious ...

Goal: color filtering a dedicated folder only, without staining its children

With definitions

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dir: c:\path\to\folder
dir: c:\path\to\folder\

all children folders get colored as well.

How can I avoid this?

Thanks,
Filehero

[bdeshi]

Well, that was quite puzzling. I guess not many people color-filter individual items. or this should've been raised more often.

I think this is the root cause for your -- grief.

Loose matches: Name and Dir patterns support Loose Match, i.e. wildcards (*) are internally auto-added left and right of a pattern if no wildcards (* or ?) are contained in the pattern. So "cat" will match "wildcat.txt".

That means your filters were actually interpreted as:

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dir: *c:\path\to\folder*
dir: *c:\path\to\folder\*

You can use one of these:

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dir: *c:\path\to\folder // works, but might match on named drives
dir: c:\path\to\folder AND len: == 17 // much better. 17 being strlen("c:\path\to\folder")

@Don, there ought to be the option to match exactly without automatic wildcards.

[Filehero]

Hi Sammay,

Well, that was quite puzzling. I guess not many people color-filter individual items. or this should've been raised more often.

Actually I want to highlight individual folders that have a accompanying SVN working copy. I went for color filters just automatically. Haven't thought about any alternative (better) way (like tags) yet.

I think this is the root cause for your -- grief.

Loose matches: Name and Dir patterns support Loose Match, i.e. wildcards (*) are internally auto-added left and right of a pattern if no wildcards (* or ?) are contained in the pattern. So "cat" will match "wildcat.txt".

That means your filters were actually interpreted as:

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dir: *c:\path\to\folder*
dir: *c:\path\to\folder\*

Yes, this was my suspicion as well, I had hoped for the terminal backslash like it is used for directories in Custom File Icons, though.

You can use one of these:

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dir: c:\path\to\folder AND len: == 17 // much better. 17 being strlen("c:\path\to\folder")

Works! Ha!!

@Don, there ought to be the option to match exactly without automatic wildcards.

Yes, please! This is just a native option of a filter/pattern system like that.


Thanks again Sammay!