Re: Filtering also matches the filenames...

On Dienstag, 8. März 2022 10:05:21 CET Waqar Ahmed wrote:
> > in the attached screenshot kate-rtes.png the filter text is "rtes", and
> > although this is not anywhere visible in the results, they all are
> > accepted by the filter. To me this looks clearly like a bug.
> > They are accepted because they are all somewhere below ...src/dockertest/
> > (which contains "rtes").
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > When I remove the search base directory for the filtering, it works
> > better,
> > but leads to the result as in kate-sub.png.
> > The filter is "sub", and all matches are displayed, since they are all in
> > the "sub/" directory, which is visible in the names of the file items.
> > But the number of matches is completely wrong then. The number of matches
> > counts how often the search time was found, and since none of the actual
> > text matches matches the filter, it is zero.
> > If the filtering would only test the actual content, I think this issue
> > would go away.
> 
> Yes, but it removes a feature so imo not a good idea. Directory/file
> filtering was one of the main reasons I added this feature :)
> 
> One big reason I didn't bother with updated row count was because this
> filter is temporary and not something you should rely on to find out
> how many matches there are *after* the filtering. The point is to be
> able to focus on a part of the search, hence updated rowCount for me
> is not useful at all.

I think this should fix all issues as far as I can see :-)
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/663

Alex