ColorFiltering exact paths

[SkyFrontier]

v13.10.0001 - 2013-10-10 20:45
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! Color Filters: Name filters stated as slashed paths never matched
anywhere. Fixed. Now you can pass "D:\Test\"(or "D:\Test") as a
filter and it will color this one path.

How do I make this work as stated on latest versions...?

[kunkel321]

Interesting. I was just experimenting.
I made an empty folder, which is,

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C:\Test

Then made the corresponding Color Filter definition (without the ending slash).
It matched the folder and also matched a file in my C drive that happened to be there, "C:\test.xml"

But then I put the slash at the end and it still matches both.
The ending slash should make it NOT match the xml file, correct?

[TheQwerty]

This is actually working as designed* based on this change:

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v13.20.0011 - 2013-11-09 13:42
    . . .
    * Color Filters: Now Name and Dir patterns support Loose Match, i.e. 
      wildcards (*) are internally auto-added left and right of a 
      pattern if no wildcards (* or ?) are contained in the pattern. So 
      "cat" will now match "wildcat.txt"; before you needed to state 
      "*cat*".
      FYI, this is in analogy to Visual Filters which support this since 
      20060830.

Prefixing the pattern with a '*' makes it work as you desire, because this disables the loose matching.

So to just color C:\Test you want a pattern of *C:\Test

EDIT: Though XY might be able to more smartly handle a trailing '\' in these cases. /edit.


* It's arguable whether it's a good design decision. As it stands now the rules are simpler and thus more easily documented. Perhaps it would be better if the loose match also checked for ':\' before surrounding the pattern in wildcards? ('\' only would impact '\test\') In any case it might help for the examples to include:

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C:\Windows       -> matches C:\Windows, all items that are located in C:\Windows, and also C:\WindowSill and its contents. (Same as *C:\Windows*)
*C:\Windows     -> matches C:\Windows only.

[SkyFrontier]

Thanks, TQ.
Traversed history.txt high and low but couldn't find a way to achieve that.