Current Sort Indicator?

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meteorquake
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Current Sort Indicator?

Post by meteorquake »

Quite often I have small everything panes, and I can't tell what their sort order is, particularly in thumb view, and it's often important. If I have gone through some items and the sort order was wrong I may not have been systematic for the items I was interested in.
I'm wondering what the solution to this is. Here are some of my thoughts -
* The advanced sort as well as offering the three sorter dropdowns could state at the top what the current sort is. Then I could find the sort by doing Ctrl-S and it would say at the sort something like "Current Sort : Name (arrow symbol)".
* The status bar formatter (statusbar_selected_item_format & statusbar_selection_format) could have a string substitutor that represents current sort, for example $o - It may be a short mnemonic is best so eg Mod with arrow up/down for Modified Date.
Either way something trivial to implement is all that would be needed, as long as there's a simple way to find the sort without having to do gymnastics.
David
void
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Re: Current Sort Indicator?

Post by void »

I will consider a $current-sort: variable for the status bar format.

Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, please consider showing the header in thumbnail view:
  • In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Advanced tab on the left.
  • To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
    thumb
  • Select thumbnail_view_header.
  • Set the value to: true
  • Click OK.
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