Author: petermad
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 5:17 pm (GMT -6)
It is even documented that cd can be used to set view filters:
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Or Indirectly documented:
History:
I have a whole line of premade filters in my Extended Menus based on using cd, and this use of cd have been discussed on the forum several times (just impossible to search for "cd").
But sexy69 is right about that cd don't support filtering of folders - Ghisler has said that is to prevent not ending up with a totally empty file panel without the possibility of navigating.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 5:17 pm (GMT -6)
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| Well, that may be just a side-effect. And as I said: wrong command for the purpose. |
It is even documented that cd can be used to set view filters:
Help:
| Quote: |
| Command 3. You can make a button to change directories, by specifying cd directory name as the command. You can even choose which files to show, e.g. using the command cd directory\*.txt |
Or Indirectly documented:
History:
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| 28.06.13 Fixed: "cd" command in button bar couldn't handle include/exclude wildcards for directories, e.g. "cd *.* | *.*\" or "cd c:\test\*.* | *.*\" (32/64) |
I have a whole line of premade filters in my Extended Menus based on using cd, and this use of cd have been discussed on the forum several times (just impossible to search for "cd").
But sexy69 is right about that cd don't support filtering of folders - Ghisler has said that is to prevent not ending up with a totally empty file panel without the possibility of navigating.
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#524
Danish Total Commander Translator
TC 9.0b7 32+64bit on Win XP 32bit, Win 7, 8.1 & 10 64bit. TC 2.72 on Android 6.0
Get Extended Total Commander Menus