<selitems> + ?tags:

[eil]

many many thanks Don! now everything works

[eil]

it seems i found "not working properly" again.
i select some files and folders, there are some labeled files and folders in 1st tier, and some in subs. both

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goto("+?tags:*");  
text quicksearch("tags:*", "<selitems ;>");  

don't find folders of 1st tier. only 1st tier files, and properly files and folders in subs.

[admin]

Confirmed! Argh, tricky. That was my relaxed weekend...

[admin]

OK, I thought about it again, and well, it works as as advertised. Search In List (SIL) is an extension of Multi Location Search (MLOS). In MLOS, the folders passed as search locations are never contained in the results, but are recursed and their contents are checked. The same is true for SIL. The difference is that in a SIL also files are among the search "locations". They are checked directly, of course, and can appear in the search results.

OTOH, I admit that what you observed looks a bit like a bug. But should SIL be redefined? Should the behavior change. Probably not.

[eil]

that's pity, 'cause by my understanding everything that is parsed should be "checked", 'cause otherwise function seems to be "not trustful".
before i was using an algorithm that checked items one by one: if its a file> check, if it's a folder> check and get list of internal items, and so on. imaging how long that is!? but That was the only way to truly say if there are any items i marked and forgot or someone marked and i even didn't know.