Re: RFC: On-line Content Filtering of directories

["Scott J. Harmon" <harmon ksu edu>]

It seems to me it would be intuitive to place filtering in the "Location 
bar" for the file browser.  For example, if I wanted all documents in a 
directory I could put "/home/scott/*.sxw" and I would only be shown 
files ending with ".sxw". (I actually tried this a few months ago by 
accident (-:)

Scott.

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> El mié, 20-04-2005 a las 00:04 +0200, Diego Gonzalez escribió:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have implemented a new feature for Nautilus, it is a way to filter
> > the contents of a directory, right now it only works when Nautilus is
> > in spatial mode. If there is interest in it, it can easily be extended
> > to work on navigational windows.
>
> Wow, I would like to see that for future releases of nautilus, sounds
> very useful.
>
>
> > I have created this feature to overcome a problem that i'm having as a
> > consequence of using the spatial mode: when i started to use the
> > spatial mode, i found it incredible anoying to have deep hierarchies
> > of directories, as a consecuence i reduced them, this meant in many
> > cases that i got directories with a lot of files, and altough i have
> > long meaningful names for many of them it is quite hard to find a file
> > in there. This patch allows me to quickly search the contents of a
> > directory for files that match the string entered.
> >
> > A more complete description with the patch proposed and screenshots
> > can be found at:
> > http://www.es.gnome.org/~diego/index.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Diego
> >
> > PD: An extension of this feature could be used to rework the regular
> > expresion selection (Ctrl+S), as i think that this feature is more
> > visible and also easier to used by common desktop users that do not
> > understand how regular expressions work.
> >
> >
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