Visual filter suggestions

[admin]

Okay, summing it all up, and giving Gandolf, who started all this, the last word I settle for:

Filter By Selected Extension(s)
Filter Out Selected Extension(s)

As jc said, the By vs Out makes it clear even for me what it means (although it's a pity that English does not allow "Filter In").

[panorama]

it's a pity that English does not allow "Filter In").

it does

it just doesn't mean what you want it to here!

Have a look:

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/p ... er+in.html

[Gandolf]

Thanks Donald, that works very well (but see a bug report!).

I'd forgotten the use of filter in a traffic situation, it means almost exactly the opposite of the normal use of the word.

[j_c_hallgren]

That traffic usage of 'filter in' was unknown to me...of course, it shows there as British-English .vs. International, so...

IMHO, those two words seem contradictory, kinda like "(to) separate 'abc' together" compared to "(to) separate 'abc' apart"...

[panorama]

That traffic usage of 'filter in' was unknown to me...of course, it shows there as British-English .vs. International, so...

That's probably because we Americans "merge" into traffic rather "filtering" in...

But I'll stop, otherwise this forum is going to start looking like alt.usage.english, which is also fun... but is less likely to turn up tips and trick for our favorite file manager!

[jacky]

hmm.... ok I actually just upgraded, and it seems you forgot to put that new command into the VF's context menu (TB icon) !! But how am I supposed to use it then?!

[jjk]

I pop again this topic, because, after having searched, I have not found what I'd want.
I think it would be useful to be able to visual filter on currently selected files, i.e. to display only selected files.

[Pagat]

You could use the following script command to show only the selected files in the list:

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::filter getinfo("SelectedItemsNames", "|")

If you put it in your catalog you have one click access to it.

[jacky]

Yep, this can be done through scripting, I actually have such a feature in a script of mine...

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::filter getinfo("SelectedItemsNames", "|")

I believe this one might not always work as expected though, for instance when a filename contains "[" or if you have two items "foo" and "foobar" and select only "foo", then both will show!
Here's what I use that should avoid such problems (though I'm not saying it's perfect) :

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"&Filter Current Selection"
	end 0==getinfo("CountSelected"), "No selection !", 1;
	substr $sel, getinfo("SelectedItemsNames", '"|"'), 0, -3;
	replace $sel, $sel, "[", "[[]";
	filter '"'.$sel.'"';
	status "Selection filtered";

[jjk]

Thanks Pagat and Jacky.
It is so simple with scripting ! So thanks Don also

[Pagat]

yup, my example is the shortest one (i believe) but has some disadvantages.

There is one more character that can lead to problems: #
In a visual filter it's representing a digit, so it won't work out of the box if a filename consists a "#".

[jacky]

Right, well here's a quick update then:

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"&Filter Current Selection"
	end 0==getinfo("CountSelected"), "No selection !", 1;
	replace $sel, report('"{Name}"|', 1), "[", "[[]";
	replace $sel, $sel, "#", "[#]";
	filter $sel;
	status "Selection filtered";

[jjk]

Right, well here's a quick update then:

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"&Filter Current Selection"
	end 0==getinfo("CountSelected"), "No selection !", 1;
	replace $sel, report('"{Name}"|', 1), "[", "[[]";
	replace $sel, $sel, "#", "[#]";
	filter $sel;
	status "Selection filtered";

It works very fine. Thanks.
Now I have another request : if a select say 20 files and apply this script, the list of the 20 files names is displayed when right-clicking on "Toggle No/Last Visual Filer" button on toolbar. It is a very very laaarge line. And also, such a filter on selection is by definition temporary.
So I'd like that those filters are not saved in the visual filter list.
Do you know a mean for that ? More generally is it possible to use a visual filter without save it in VF list ?

[jacky]

Do you know a mean for that ? More generally is it possible to use a visual filter without save it in VF list ?

Nope, (AFAIK) as soon as you use a VF it'll be added on the VF history/MRU.

[serendipity]

Right, well here's a quick update then:

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"&Filter Current Selection"
	end 0==getinfo("CountSelected"), "No selection !", 1;
	replace $sel, report('"{Name}"|', 1), "[", "[[]";
	replace $sel, $sel, "#", "[#]";
	filter $sel;
	status "Selection filtered";

It works very fine. Thanks.
Now I have another request : if a select say 20 files and apply this script, the list of the 20 files names is displayed when right-clicking on "Toggle No/Last Visual Filer" button on toolbar. It is a very very laaarge line. And also, such a filter on selection is by definition temporary.
So I'd like that those filters are not saved in the visual filter list.
Do you know a mean for that ? More generally is it possible to use a visual filter without save it in VF list ?

But you can always edit the List management and delete that entry or you can use the Tweak: ForgetMRU to 1 in the configuration file before your VF and then set to 0 after your VF.
Or simply, save settings before your VF followed by your VF and then restart without saving.