Conditional Highlighting

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crimzind
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Conditional Highlighting

Post by crimzind »

I keep finding myself wishing I could set up pre-set rules to visually highlight rows/text when specific conditions or strings/regex are found.

Right this moment, I went to rename some files on a drive I've got flagged as Read Only. I wasn't even paying attention to the location.
I still want to be able to search the drive, but I wish I could set up a pre-set background color for the rows on the specified drive/directory, to just give me that immediate awareness.

If results is on R:\, change background color to X, text to color Y (for contrasting purposes).

I've had other times where I'm looking for some duplicate files I've wound up saving...

ImageA.png
ImageA (1).png
ImageA (2).png
ImageC.png
ImageD.png
ImageE.png
ImageE (1).png

and I wish I could just have any lines that have (#) to change the whole line's text colors, just to make things pop out stronger when I'm scrolling through a large list of files.

That kind of stuff, hope that makes sense.
void
Developer
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Joined: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:31 pm

Re: Conditional Highlighting

Post by void »

Conditional colors / color filters are on my TODO list.

Thank you for the suggestions.



There is already some support for basic filename color filters in Everything 1.5.
-Try a color filter with the following filter:
regex:\s\(\d+\)\.[^.]*$