Tick box "Only show files to be changed"

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Tick box "Only show files to be changed"

Postby geoff741 » Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:32 pm

Ok, example. You have 100 files in BRU. You want to change the word to to TO. 9 files will be changed

Currently all 100 will be in the list still and the ones that will be changed are highlighted. This works fine when the list only has a dozen files, but when you have hundreds or thousands in there it can be really hard to find which ones are going to be changed. So adding a tick box that will "Only show files to be changed" or something (prob a better way to word it) would just temporarily hide the other 91 files in the list showing you just the 9 to be changed

I like to change a lot of files at once to have title case (AKA First Letter Of Every Word Capitilised) but this also changes things that should be in all caps (such as AKA or NASA) and so you wanna make sure they don't get caught in the mass change. It's not easy when your list has hundreds of files
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Re: Tick box "Only show files to be changed"

Postby therube » Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:01 pm

+1
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Re: Tick box "Only show files to be changed"

Postby Admin » Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:41 am

We will check feasibility of this function and add it to the next release this year. thanks
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Re: Tick box "Only show files to be changed"

Postby Jack2 » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:37 pm

I agree that this would be useful. As a workaround in the meantime, note that you can group together all the files that will be affected via menu option: Display Options> Sorting > Group Affected Items. They will all appear together in a block (usually/always?) at the end of the list and you can Cntl-click any you want to remove from the selection.

It seems that you have to toggle the feature on and off each time you do a new search, but it's the the best shortcut ever ! (alt d s a)
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