XYplorer Beta Club

Afaik to search ALL extra columns we need to use a search pattern like this:
:ex1: *50* OR ex2: *50* OR ex3: *50* OR ex4: *50* OR ex5: *50* OR ex6: *50* OR ex7: *50* OR ex8: *50* OR ex9: *50* OR ex10: *50* OR ex11: *50* OR ex12: *50* OR ex13: *50* OR ex14: *50* OR ex15: *50* OR ex16: *50*

No problem when doing this within a script but I wouldn't want to do this in the address bar / find files gui...

Can we have a global scope selector for extra columns OR fld= entry that just allows to search all of them at once?

Like:
?ex:50
or
?50 /fld=ex

Difficult. Each Extra column can have different properties / data types. They cannot just be jammed together.

The only way would be to internally create that search pattern (:ex1: *50* OR ex2: *50* OR ex3: *50* OR ex4: *50* OR ex5: *50* OR ex6: *50* OR ex7: *50* OR ex8: *50* OR ex9: *50* OR ex10: *50* OR ex11: *50* OR ex12: *50* OR ex13: *50* OR ex14: *50* OR ex15: *50* OR ex16: *50*). That will be a slow search...

Yeah, but if it needs be be generic because you don't know the exact setup on a client system, I see no way around that slow variant atm...

What about this: A column / search field that returns the raw data of each item as it is stored in tag.dat.
It would show something like this: |0||||wow|||||wow||||||||wow|Finally the comment

I would have use cases for this (e.g. a combined search for all tags and all extra columns + comments, etc.) but it would require post-processing
and normally ends up in paperfolders to display what you've got from that.

I'd like to be able to use a simple goto command to directly see the results in a quick search view.
Can't we agree that the user is responsible for what he is searching for when ex: | /fld=ex would be used (e.g. by either
the search pattern or an extra column setup that fits)?

I can do it. Had an idea...

Next beta ?ex:50 will work. No time to document it...

Great!

Actually this inspired me to add something useful later: An Extended File Properties (or so) dialog where you can edit all editable fields of a file in one place, even in "Editor Mode" (like in LIst Management): The filename, dates, (some) attributes, and all tags...