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Last week I had a trainee maiden (almost) voyage on a yacht round the coastline of UK where I nearly met my maker. We were battling force 8 (gale) winds and rain, quite a summer we're having. For a beginner it was an unsettling experience. Like being forced to learn assembly programming with a gun on your head. Boy I learnt fast :) and basically it was thanks to the experienced skipper we had that I can continue developing xplorer˛ :O Thank the gods there was no sight of pirates or wooden legs. That's all downwind now, back to the land-lubber brigade with secure, solid, dry ground underneath. Shiver me soul! Talking about tricky situations, albeit not as life-threatening, don't you just hate it when a folder has a million files in it and you just can't seem to find the one you want? This is a common problem in large folders and xplorer˛ has a battery of commands to restrict the visibility of items, or Visual filters as they are called — you'll find them in View menu. Most of you will have heard about wildcards like *.txt which can be typed straight in the addressbar to show only files whose names match the template, e.g. text files in our example. (If you need a refresher course on wildcards see this older article). xplorer˛ has some heavy artillery in the form of rule-based filters (<Alt+H> command), where you can customize the fine details of the matching template. But you've just come back sailing from a tempest and you can't be bothered with those complex hyperfilters, what else is there to do that's less taxing? Two things pop into mind:
The accompanying short demonstration will help you grasp the simple workings of these filtering commands. A pitfall you should be aware of: once you turn on a visual filter, it remains until you explicitly deactivate it using View | Show all command. If you're scratching your head where your files went, first check for a green filter icon on the statusbar!
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