Filtering also matches the filenames...

[Waqar Ahmed]

Hi,

Filename matching allows you to zoom in on a particular directory in your
search results quickly.

One other way to do it is using the filters in search plugin but that
requires you to repeat the search.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022, 11:29 PM Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the filtering currently also matches the filenames, and that using their
> full
> path.
> This leads to strange behaviour.
> I typed "x" in the filter, and everything was still visible, although
> there
> was no "x" anywhere.
> I found that the filter "x" matched them all because they were all in some
> subdir of my home directory "/home/alex/", which contains an "x".
> In my local copy I changed it so that fileToPlainText() removes the base
> directory from the filtering, so that only that part of the filename is
> matched that is also displayed in the results.
>
> But that still is strange. If I now enter something that occurs in all
> found
> filenames, but not in any actual match, the results list now tells me
> "0 matched (0 checked)" but still displays all search results and all of
> them
> are checked.
>
> How about applying the filtering only to the actual contents of the files,
> and
> ignore the filenames completely ?
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
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