Searching in multiple fields (title, fullpath, comments, etc) as if they were all are "just one"?

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anoobuser
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Searching in multiple fields (title, fullpath, comments, etc) as if they were all are "just one"?

Post by anoobuser »

First of all, sorry if what I'm saying is confusing and I don't know the best possible way of explaining it.

So I know that the software probably made for this purpose, but I just couldn't resist due to how efficient it is at searching thing. I wanted to use void everything to search my internet history, which I have been keeping for some years (I noticed browsers don't deal well, with searching thousands of entries).

I sorta managed to do make it to recognized the data. Putting the thing in a tab split format:

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But I'm having problems to search on the data taking into account results split into different columns. Sorta like you do on browsers, where you can type a little bit of the url, a part of the page title, and the browser shows you the result that contains both patterns.

To give a example of what I wanted, if I type "Chapolin" and "Youtube" I would like the software search and show me all the results containing the words "chapolin" AND "youtube" regardless of which columns those words are (for instance the keyword "youtube" might be in the column fullpath, and "chapolin" is in the column "title".

I want the program to search in column "title" "fullpath" and "comments" to search for any result that contains both these words, regardless of them being in different columns. Preferably, I would like to create some command where I just type, like:

youtube chapolin

And it gives me results taking this into account. I played a little and managed this command, such as:

<title|fullpath|comment>:

<title|fullpath|comment>:bgm

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Which does work, but once you add more words or spaces, the thing starts to fall apart. And then you have to add something:

<title|fullpath|comment>:bgm <title|fullpath|comment>:copper
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I just wanted to be able to type something "bgp copper", and the program detect both patterns as in the image above, but without all that code. I read about something about functions regex (which I think is what would be needed here, but I just couldn't make sense of the code). Putting in pretty simple terms, I would like this result:

<title|fullpath|comment>:bgm <title|fullpath|comment>:copper

But just typing:

bgm copper

Sorry to bother. Thanks for any help. And thanks for having developed such an amazing piece of software. Void Everything, along autohotkey and few other great softwares are the sorta thing that keeps me into Windows :D.

Update:
Okay I think the code is something among this lines:
<title|fullpath|comment>:$param:

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But still doesn't work with multiple words :?

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therube
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Re: Searching in multiple fields (title, fullpath, comments, etc) as if they were all are "just one"?

Post by therube »

(BTW, aside from Everything:

(Nirsoft's) BrowsingHistoryView is a utility that reads the history data of different Web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera) and displays the browsing history of all these Web browsers in one table. The browsing history table includes the following information: Visited URL, Title, Visit Time, Visit Count, Web browser and User Profile. BrowsingHistoryView allows you to watch the browsing history of all user profiles in a running system, as well as to get the browsing history from external hard drive.
You can also export the browsing history into csv/tab-delimited/html/xml file from the user interface, or from command-line, without displaying any user interface.


And its' "Quick Filter" search has a 'Search all columns' setting.)
tuska
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Re: Searching in multiple fields (title, fullpath, comments, etc) as if they were all are "just one"?

Post by tuska »

2anoobuser
One option would be to create a filter: Filter functions

Here is an example:
 
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This filter has also worked:
Name:   File properties - Macro: prop (search -> tags:comment:subject:title:authors:) $param:
Search: tags:$param:|comment:$param:|subject:$param:|title:$param:|authors:$param:
Macro:  prop
Query: Path\ prop:<searchword|searchword|searchword|searchword> (only example!)
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