On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 15:01, Mike Kazantsev <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 09:39:56 -0400
> Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Mike Kazantsev <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > And unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an option for that,
> > > only for filtering over attributes of internal track representation.
> > > Unless I just missed it, that is...
> >
> > There is no problem implementing such a feature. But since many people
> > (myself included) modify `emms-track-description-function', such as
> > feature must not make any assumptions about what is being displayed,
>
> Yeah, that's actually why internal fields aren't good enough in my
> use-case either - track-description-function can use stuff from bunch
> of different tags, fallback to filename (splitting file/directory
> names into fields), replace underscores with spaces and do all sorts of
> other tweaks there.
>
> So it's hard or even impossible to tell what to match from internal
> fields from just looking at such playlist buffer.
>

Have a look at a new version on the emms-playlist-limit branch.

Now "/ d" filters by regexp on what the playlist buffer shows (strictly, on
what `emms-track-description-function' returns for each track).  I hope
this gives what Mike wants while addressing Yoni's concern.

---Fran
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