Filter working, but corresponding macro not?

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GeorgeCostanza
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Filter working, but corresponding macro not?

Post by GeorgeCostanza »

I have a search that i repeatedly perform so i decided to create a filter and macro.

The search usually looks like this:

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Q: path:<dogs|cats|birds|lizards|spiders> images
What this does in words is that it looks inside my Q drive, then finds any folders titled "images", inside of any folders that have the words dogs OR cats OR birds, etc in the path

So for example, my folders look like this:

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Q:\F1\F2\dogs\images
OR

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Q:\F1\F2\cats\images
and when i perform the search:

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Q: path:<dogs|cats|birds|lizards|spiders> images
I get a list of folders all named "images"

I created a filter for quicker execution:

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q: path:<name:> images
And a macro:

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qimg<name>
When i activate the filter and type:

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dogs|cats|lizards|horses
it works fine and returns a list of folders named "images"

But when I deactivate the filter, activate the "Everything" filter and use the macro like this:

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qimg:dogs|cats
the behavior isn't the same.

It returns a list of 4,000+ objects and I can't figure out if this is expected behavior or I'm doing something wrong.

I think it has something to do with the "|" operator, because the macro works until I add an "|" operator

Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks for any help
void
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Re: Filter working, but corresponding macro not?

Post by void »

The | breaks a search term.


The search qimg:dogs|cats is searching for qimg:dogs OR cats

Currently you would have to search for:
qimg:dogs|qimg:cats

I've added <> support to macro function calls in Everything 824b
With Everything 824b, please try searching for:
qimg:<dogs|cats>
GeorgeCostanza
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Re: Filter working, but corresponding macro not?

Post by GeorgeCostanza »

void wrote:The | breaks a search term.


The search qimg:dogs|cats is searching for qimg:dogs OR cats

Currently you would have to search for:
qimg:dogs|qimg:cats

I've added <> support to macro function calls in Everything 824b
With Everything 824b, please try searching for:
qimg:<dogs|cats>
works perfect. glad my post made sense to you.

thanks a lot and thanks for the program. just found out about it and i've been using it constantly
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