Fuzzy Search for "List of All Commands"

[BlueFx]

Heyho!

This is a kind feature request for the "List of All Commands" feature. I use it quite often since IntelliJ IDEs trained me to just type if I want to do something instead of searching within menus and menus of menus - very comfortable and I was very happy that this is also impemented in XY.
I think you could improve it a lot when you allow fuzzy search here. For example, I want to add a comment to a file. So I search for "Comment" - Now I have to press two times down to reach it, there is not an option to take a shortcut for me.
My preferred way would be instead to search for "ta co" - since "tags" and "comment" is both included in the full label "Tags | Comment" - well, this is not a problem here but it can be annoying when doing it often.

ListCommands.png

This would also work perfectly well for sorting columns.
Let's also say I want to sort by modified column. So I type "modified". It would be the 7th entry - I now would like to add "sort" to the query to get the right result. Instead, I either need to press <down> quite often (which is not nice if I use this frequently), or I have to change my search term to "by | modified" next time which is not that intuitive.

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By the way - would it be possible to also add the entries of the context menu of the currently selected file in the commands list? (Could be a performance issue, though..)

Best regards and thanks that you already have build my favorite file manager

BlueFx

[highend]

That feature already exists

v19.50.0229 - 2019-01-17 11:36
+ Live Filter Box: Added tweak LiveFilterIsShotgun to enable shotgun mode
without the need to define and use a LiveFilterShotgunPrefix.
The new tweak is a bit field:
LiveFilterIsShotgun=1 'shotgun in the main LFB
LiveFilterIsShotgun=2 'shotgun in the small LFBs in dialogs
LiveFilterIsShotgun=3 'shotgun in both
If the tweak is set then any present LiveFilterShotgunPrefix in your
pattern is NOT removed anymore, so you should not pass any prefix if the
tweak is set.
The tooltip of the LFB icon tells you whether shotgun is enabled.
Later the tweak might be lifted to the right-click menu of that icon...

[admin]

So like this?:

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ta co = *ta* and *co*
modi sort = *modi* AND *sort*

No, that's not possible at the moment. But I like the idea. I'll look into it.

[admin]

It's nice. Next beta:

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    + Live Filter Box in small dialogs: Extended the LiveFilterIsShotgun tweak 
      to offer an additional functionality: Fat Gun.
        -----------------------------------------------------------------------
        Typed Pattern     Applied Boolean Pattern     Example for a Match
        -----------------------------------------------------------------------
        ta com            *ta* and *co*               Tags | Comment...
        ag mme            *ag* and *mme*              Tags | Comment...
        odi so            *odi* AND *so*              View | Sort By | Modified
        -----------------------------------------------------------------------
      So your patterns are separated by a space, auto-surrounded by asterisks 
      and AND-ed, i.e. the sequence of the patterns is irrelevant.
      To enabled the Fat Gun mode set LiveFilterIsShotgun to 64 (or add 64 to 
      the current value if you are using the tweak already).
        LiveFilterIsShotgun=64    'fat gun in the LFBs in small dialogs

[Marco]

Will you ever raise the tweak to UI?

[admin]

Why not! But I might try to find better terms first for shotgun and fatgun...

[highend]

So if you'd want to use this new feature for all possible circumstances you'd use 71 as the new value?
1+2+4+64

But using e.g. "so mod" doesn't lead to only a single entry for all commands because the fat gun
doesn't take precedence over the shot gun function...

[admin]

I don't think it should be combined with shotgun. Didn't do much testing yet...

[highend]

Imho this could be a full replacement for the shot gun feature as well (at least a: either use the one or the other).

E.g. 65: It works fine for the List All Commands... feature but not so good for a normal live filtering in a pane

For example: me aut
Lists (what I'd like to see as the only two entries)
!Meta data field test [original author].doc
!Meta data field test [original author].docx

but also:
NVMe M.2 SSD - Externes Gehäuse.txt
Skoda - Monte Carlo [Auslagen].txt

[admin]

Well, it's not implemented in the file list. See change log: + Live Filter Box in small dialogs: ...

[highend]

Oh, I see. First line...

Well, it would be a nice addition to make this available in all places where shot gun is available.
I would prefer the fat gun, more human to think in words (or better: parts of them) instead of only arbitrary character sequences

[admin]

Yes, I agree. It's bit harder to implement for the list, that's why I did not do it right away. But it will come...

[BlueFx]

Well...that was really quick

Thank you highend for the answer, this tweak already helps me a lot! And thanks of course Don for implementing the fat gun!
In my opinion, this search pattern does not have to be "hidden" behind a tweak but could be the default behaviour, at least in the dialogs. I think most of us do not want to type pipes anyway