Show Search Results in: New Tab

[admin]

I just used this setting for testing purposes (Configuration | Find Files | Show Search Results in: New Tab). I never used it in real life and I must say I'm very surprised that you always get a new Search Results tab when you click Find Files on the current Search Results tab! I would have expected another search in the current tab, and only a new tab when the current tab is not a Search Results tab.

Does anybody use this setting and finds it okay as it is?

[SkyFrontier]

Is the current tab a "search results" tab?
-Yes. Then do a second search and keep the results on it (unlocked, I'd prefer).
-No. So open a new "search results" tab to show results and next searches will be displayed on that tab only, not another one - one after each other, search after search, all displaying search results for each search done, all refreshing when made active again.
That would be fine.

[admin]

Is the current tab a "search results" tab?
-Yes. Then do a second search and keep the results on it (unlocked, I'd prefer).
-No. So open a new "search results" tab to show results and next searches will be displayed on that tab only, not another one - one after each other, search after search, all displaying search results for each search done, all refreshing when made active again.
That would be fine.

Okay, that's a 4th option that has been repeatedly requested. I'll add it.

[admin]

FYI, this happened almost 5 years ago:

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v4.40.0056 - 2006-01-20 10:18
    * Find Files tab, Results to tab: now XYplorer does exactly what 
      it's told.
      (1) Current tab
          ... sends the results to the current tab.
      (2) New tab
          ... always opens a fresh new tab for the results.
          (before it stayed at the current tab if it was in Find mode)
      (3) Search results
          ... sends the results to the tab that's named "Search results" 
          (this rule is hardcoded). If none of that name is existing, it 
          is automatically created.
          (before it stayed at the current tab if it was in Find mode)

So, "New tab" was actively changed to the current behavior. Before v4.40.0056 it had the behavior that I had expected today. Hmmm.... I find the "New tab" option pretty unusable as it is now but then I do not use it anyway...

PS: Here is where it all started: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 36&start=0

[PeterH]

Isn't what you now expect for "new tab" the same that "search result" does now? I.e. it uses current tab if it's a search result, else opens a new?

[admin]

Isn't what you now expect for "new tab" the same that "search result" does now? I.e. it uses current tab if it's a search result, else opens a new?

The difference is that when on a normal browsing tab:
- "New Tab" opens a new SR tab (so you can have many SR tabs)
- "Search results" selects the existing SR tab (you always have only one SR tab)

[Kucera]

Is the current tab a "search results" tab?
-Yes. Then do a second search and keep the results on it (unlocked, I'd prefer).
-No. So open a new "search results" tab to show results and next searches will be displayed on that tab only, not another one - one after each other, search after search, all displaying search results for each search done, all refreshing when made active again.
That would be fine.

Okay, that's a 4th option that has been repeatedly requested. I'll add it.

Is it going to be (can it be?) like a "search within search", that is, in effect overriding the 'location' setting? So that say search for something like *xypl* will give a tab showing 'xyplorer, xyplorernotes, xyplorernotes2' and then subsequent search from that tab, say, *notes* would yield 'xyplorernotes, xyplorernotes2' , but no longer include other 'notes' files from the same directory?
I _really could use that! Because currently doing that *notes* search from the search results tab gives 'bluenotes, othernotes, othernotes2, rednotes, xyplorernotes, xyplorernotes2' etc. from the whole directory.
Regards Emil

[admin]

Is the current tab a "search results" tab?
-Yes. Then do a second search and keep the results on it (unlocked, I'd prefer).
-No. So open a new "search results" tab to show results and next searches will be displayed on that tab only, not another one - one after each other, search after search, all displaying search results for each search done, all refreshing when made active again.
That would be fine.

Okay, that's a 4th option that has been repeatedly requested. I'll add it.

Is it going to be (can it be?) like a "search within search", that is, in effect overriding the 'location' setting? So that say search for something like *xypl* will give a tab showing 'xyplorer, xyplorernotes, xyplorernotes2' and then subsequent search from that tab, say, *notes* would yield 'xyplorernotes, xyplorernotes2' , but no longer include other 'notes' files from the same directory?
I _really could use that! Because currently doing that *notes* search from the search results tab gives 'bluenotes, othernotes, othernotes2, rednotes, xyplorernotes, xyplorernotes2' etc. from the whole directory.
Regards Emil

No, this is currently not planned.