Thanks Jon, its a good point that space is essentially a multi-character wildcard like ".*"/"?*"/"*" (depending on your preferred regexp), but what I was hoping for is a single character wildcard like "."/"?".
For better or worse I have used period is a separator in a lot of my documents. So I have files like dev.NOTES.docx and devices.NOTES.docx. I want to be able to search for thing like ".NOTES". Since objects could be lots of things beyond documents (texts on shelf) I was hoping there was a way around a normal character like period acting like a command. Its pretty unusual in my experience to not have an escape character for special characters in a search pattern. I guess in practice it turns out that most folks work around it ok with the space wildcard. d On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 8:57:36 PM UTC-4, Jon Stovell wrote: > > I just skip the period when typing in a search string. So if you are > looking for an item called abc.def, just type "abcdef" or "abcd" or "ad" or > whatever. > > On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 4:10:21 PM UTC-4, David Rees wrote: >> >> Sorry if there is a solution for this, but I can't seem to find it. >> >> It seems there is no way to type a period into an object search since it >> always switches QS to text mode. >> >> Optimally I would like period to only enter text mode when its at the >> start of the object. Or perhaps there is an escape character that can be >> used (I've tried backslash to no avail) that I am missing? Or perhaps there >> is a wildcard I can use (* doesn't seem to work and . obviously doesn't :)? >> >> Thanks, >> dave >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
