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XYplorer's visual filter is very powerful but for day to day simple filtering needs I think something similar to free FreeCommander's approach would work much better. Below is an example:

XYAHKLiveFilter
Aside from that, Don has plans to introduce native live-filter in XY.

+1. I use Freecommander's Quickfilter many times daily to find files/folders, and would love to see it in XYplorer.

Here's yet another alternative, I created 2 UDC under the category "Run Script":

Caption: Filter Yellow
Script: filter("<get SpotPatterns>");
Sbortcut: ALT+J

Caption: Select Yellow
Script: goto(">>><get SpotPatterns>");
Sbortcut: ALT+A

In config > menus, mouse, safety I enabled the "type ahead find" and "highlight matches".
I almost like this better than the live filter elsewhere because I can keep the focus on the list and my hands on the keyboard. I simply type, and if there is no match I can proceed w/o delay, w/o having to switch back to list view. If however, I do see a yellow match, I can quickly select all (ALT A) or Filter them (Alt J). Not to mention the additional options offered by TAF (Ignore diacritics, use sorted column)

+1 for a quick filter feature.
"type ahead find" is nice, but to me "type ahead filter" would be more useful.

Sure there are "Quick Search" ways to achieve the same.

But most of the time, when in a mess directory, I just use the type ahead (with "match anywhere") to look for a set of files.
It works great if the pattern matches are consecutive in the list, but because the random ordering, most of time, they are not.
Although I've set a key for "Next Type Ahead Match", I never got used to it. So I keep scrolling (carefully to not losing the highlight) to check other matches.

MikhailR wrote:+1 for a quick filter feature.
"type ahead find" is nice, but to me "type ahead filter" would be more useful.

Sure there are "Quick Search" ways to achieve the same.

But most of the time, when in a mess directory, I just use the type ahead (with "match anywhere") to look for a set of files.
It works great if the pattern matches are consecutive in the list, but because the random ordering, most of time, they are not.
Although I've set a key for "Next Type Ahead Match", I never got used to it. So I keep scrolling (carefully to not losing the highlight) to check other matches.

I think if you try out the awesome script AHKLiveFilter by SammaySarkar as mentioned above, it may do just what you want until Don adds native Live Filtering to the list.

Again, the link is:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12588

Good luck!

andy