I'll have to add another "me too". Along those lines, EFM (the experimental enlightenment file manager of a year or two ago) did some very cool stuff with globbing. In EFM you had a little on-screen typing area; everything you typed went there, but that glob was matched against every file in the directory. Those files that matched were selected. Thus typing "*" would select all files, "*.jpg" would select all JPGs, etc. Bug 42087 discusses this some and may be relavent to this suggestion. --Ben On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 23:16, Shahms E. King wrote: > I apologize for the largely, "me too" post here, but I can't count the > number of times I've wanted to be able to do that and been forced to > Alt+Tab to a shell, it's one of the few things that would probably > double the usability for me personally (and I count myself as a rather > advanced user here, so this functionality might not be useful for a > beginner, but it it also hidden -- it makes no "user visible" changes). > And, I can't say for the icon view, but I'd think the list view could do > it relatively easily, unless there's some way to do this at the GnomeVFS > level I don't know about. > > --Shahms > > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 18:47, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > It would be interesting to be able to type in, for instance, "~/*.txt" > > into the location bar, and have the nautilus view show only files > > matching that pattern. > > > > > > -- > > Michael Rothwell > > e: rothwell at holly-springs.nc.us > > k: http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/rothwell-public-key.txt > -- > ______________________________________________ > ``Reply-To'' Munging Considered Harmful > An Earnest Plea to Mailing List Administrators: > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > nautilus-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list >
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