Color Filters - Difference between C:\* and C:\folder\*

[Marco]

If I have a color filter for

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C:\*

everything within C is colored, including C itself in the Drive list.
If I have a color filter for

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C:\folder\*

everything within C:\folder is colored, except for C:\folder itself. Am I missing something in the difference between drives and folders or it is an actual inconsistency?

[bdeshi]

This colors all children of folder as per the use manual (see last line example in quote)

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C:\folder\*

This colors the folder itself

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C:\folder\

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C:\folder

I can only say coloring Drives deviates from the normal behavior. Bear with my explanation.

From the manual (::rtfm "idh_colorfilters.htm#idh_cfname"):

Advanced filename patterns
You can as well color certain List items in specific directories by stating a pattern that will be matched against the full path of each item.
Rules:
If the pattern contains the character "\" then
it's treated against the full path (relative/portable syntax supported)
Else
it's treated against the file name (without path)
Examples:
... ...
C:\Windows\* -> matches all items that are located in C:\Windows\

According to this, "C:\folder\*" matches all items that are LOCATED inside C:\folder\ , but not the folder itself , which happens in your case and which is the expected behavior. Use "C:\folder\"

When it comes to Drives, "C:\*" would "match" all items that are LOCATED in C:\ , but not the folder (here, drive C ) itself.
And "C:*" would not color the drive either because there's no "\" and the filter is not "treated against the full path" (but of course, there can be no file with C: in its name, and C: itself is a drive/dir, not a file).
As a result it would be impossible to color drives with existing coloring rules. So rules such as "C:\*" color drives as well as its contents, even though it's not the normal behavior.

But remember, it's only my opinion and almost certainly not guaranteed to be hard fact.

edited: beautify, add link, misc repair work.

[Marco]

Hi and thank you for the explanation!
So you'd mean that drives are treated this way by design?
I also notice that a filter like "C:\*" colors the drive itself in the List but not in Tree - I guess this is a bug.

[bdeshi]

(Just discovered the tree and list coloring inconsistency. It sure looks like a bug!)

Drive and normal folder coloring really seems slightly different, whether by design or by mistake -- I'll leave for the Don to decide... But it IS inconsistent.

[admin]

Agreed. I changed it so that the drive is not colored anymore in drives listing.