New and old features review from NPP community forum

[young-developer]

Link to the comment: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/82574

A general remark : In the last versions, from v2.0.0, you changed your mind and don’t take in account some of the previous features used till the v1.12.7 version. For instance :

No view column, in the list

No complementary search, with the leading | character, in the Search Input zone. I suppose that it would be rather useless with the new options of the Search behaviour

Hitting the Shift key when you click on a file of the list does not switch to this file but simply select it for a future paste operation

The colors of the row text does not changed anymore with the file status ( saved, unsaved or read-only )

Conversely, there are a lot of improvements with numerous new settings in your last v2.4.1 version ! For instance :

The ability to close or keep the plugin opened after moving to a file

The ability to clear or not the search input

If the Search in current folder option is ticked in Plugins > NavigateTo > Settings , any further search will look in all the listed tabs AND in all the files contained in the folder of the current file. Very useful feature !

The new Fuzzy search feature

The possibility of sorting the search results AFTER the search

Many custom colors can be applied on various regions

Now, I noticed some small bugs which you’ll probably fix very soon :

Right after starting Notepad++ , if you run the NavigateTo plugin with the Ctrl + , shortcut or with the Plugins > NavigateTo > NavigateTo option, the plugin window is initially empty. So, you must type in, for instance, a Space char followed by a hit on the Backspace key, in the Search Input zone, to get the list of all your opened tabs !

Although, I set the Min Char Search to the 1 value, in the Plugins > NavigateTo > Settings option, it seems that the search is really effective after you type in, at least, 2 characters in the Search Input zone. For any value greater than 1, the result is correct

Sometimes, the search shows default orange results in the Source column, in a random way. Is this behaviour normal ? I would expect that this column should never be highlighted !

In the Plugins > NavigateTo > Settings window, I suppose that the option Search in sub directories too should be greyed out when the Search in current file folder ( Top directory only ) is not ticked !

It would be nice to have a new option Plugins > NavigateTo > About to know some details on the current version !

Now, regarding some possible enhancements :

Could it be possible that the search feature acts on :

Filenames only

Directories paths only

Both filenames AND Directories

Thus, the Search behaviour zone, in the Settings window, would be reorganized as :

•--- Search behaviour -----------------------------------------•
| |
| [ ] Search in 'Name' column only |
| [ ] Search in 'Path' Column only |
| |
| [ ] Prefer filename over path |
| |
| [ ] Search in current file folder ( Top directory only ) |
| [ ] Search in sub directories too |
| |
| [ ] Fuzzy search (Tabs only) - Tolerance list |
| |
| [ ] Search menu commands (experimental) |
•--------------------------------------------------------------•
Note that :

If none of these new options Search in 'Name' column only and Search in 'Path' column only is ticked by the user, it would automatically tick the Search in 'Name' column only option

Of course, the Prefer filename over path option would be functional ONLY IF, both, the two new options are checked. If NOT, the Prefer filename over path option would be greyed out !

Nevertheless, I don’t know if this enhancement could perturb the Fuzzy search feature ?

To end with, the new Fuzzy search seems very powerful. However, after reading the Wikipedia article on that topic, I did not understand all the process. In some cases, I could get the same number of results with regexes but not in all the cases ;-))

So, could you provide us with some more hints on this surprising search method and its logic ?

Best Regards,

guy038