[Plugin Update] NavigateTo

cmeriaux

@guy038
there is an issue already open in github 1 month ago
https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/issues/9

young-developer

Hi guys,

@guy038 , New version is avaliable - https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases/tag/1.12.4

P.S. Sorry for such long delay.

young-developer

@guy038 , @cmeriaux
I am going to implement options/settings form.

What do you think about optional functionality like that: https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/issues/12 ?

P.S. Plugin will be updated little bit later because I could not access nppPluginManager admin panel.

Thanks

cmeriaux

@young-developer
https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/issues/12 is a good one ! Great idea.

About Options/settings form : what about working with a config file instead a GUI form ? GUI is always a nightmare to develop, maintain and make evolve.

Cheers

Régis PG

Hi @guy038 !

Thank you very much for this great plugin!
I used FileSwitcher until now but as it is not compatible on x64 bit version of NPP, I am happy now to be able to use your plugin ;-)
Unfortunately there is an issue : when I select a file in the list and tape Enter then nothing happens… so impossible to move on the file :-(
Please could you help me to “debug” …?

guy038

Hello, @Régis-PG,

I did wished to be able to develop such a nice plugin :-)) Unfortunately, you have to thank its true author :

Oleksii Maryshchenko ( young_developer@mail.ru )

I’m just a guy, glad to use this plugin, too !

Refer to :

https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo

https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases

Best regards,

guy038

young-developer

@Régis-PG I updated x64 dll. Please test it. - https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases/tag/1.12.4
@guy038 I am also investigating issues described by you.
Thank you for your feedback.

young-developer

New plugin v2 is available. Please retest and let me know if something else can be added/changed/fixed: https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases/tag/v.2.0.0

guy038

Hello, @young-developer and All,

I’m presently testing your latest NavigateTo plugin ( version 2.4.1 ) !

A general remark : In the last versions, from v2.0.0, you changed your mind and don’t take in account some of the previous features used till the v1.12.7 version. For instance :

No view column, in the list
No complementary search, with the leading | character, in the Search Input zone. I suppose that it would be rather useless with the new options of the Search behaviour
Hitting the Shift key when you click on a file of the list does not switch to this file but simply select it for a future paste operation
The colors of the row text does not changed anymore with the file status ( saved, unsaved or read-only )

Conversely, there are a lot of improvements with numerous new settings in your last v2.4.1 version ! For instance :

The ability to close or keep the plugin opened after moving to a file
The ability to clear or not the search input
If the Search in current folder option is ticked in Plugins > NavigateTo > Settings , any further search will look in all the listed tabs AND in all the files contained in the folder of the current file. Very useful feature !
The new Fuzzy search feature
The possibility of sorting the search results AFTER the search
Many custom colors can be applied on various regions

Now, I noticed some small bugs which you’ll probably fix very soon :

Right after starting Notepad++ , if you run the NavigateTo plugin with the Ctrl + , shortcut or with the Plugins > NavigateTo > NavigateTo option, the plugin window is initially empty. So, you must type in, for instance, a Space char followed by a hit on the Backspace key, in the Search Input zone, to get the list of all your opened tabs !
Although, I set the Min Char Search to the 1 value, in the Plugins > NavigateTo > Settings option, it seems that the search is really effective after you type in, at least, 2 characters in the Search Input zone. For any value greater than 1, the result is correct
Sometimes, the search shows default orange results in the Source column, in a random way. Is this behaviour normal ? I would expect that this column should never be highlighted !
In the Plugins > NavigateTo > Settings window, I suppose that the option Search in sub directories too should be greyed out when the Search in current file folder ( Top directory only ) is not ticked !
It would be nice to have a new option Plugins > NavigateTo > About to know some details on the current version !

Now, regarding some possible enhancements :

Could it be possible that the search feature acts on :
- Filenames only
- Directories paths only
- Both filenames AND Directories

Thus, the Search behaviour zone, in the Settings window, would be reorganized as :

•--- Search behaviour -----------------------------------------•
|                                                              |
|  [ ]  Search in 'Name' column only                           |
|  [ ]  Search in 'Path' Column only                           |
|                                                              |
|  [ ]  Prefer filename over path                              |
|                                                              |
|  [ ]  Search in current file folder ( Top directory only )   |
|       [ ] Search in sub directories too                      |
|                                                              |
|  [ ]  Fuzzy search (Tabs only) - Tolerance <Drop-down> list  |
|                                                              |
|  [ ]  Search menu commands (experimental)                    |
•--------------------------------------------------------------•

Note that :

If none of these new options Search in 'Name' column only and Search in 'Path' column only is ticked by the user, it would automatically tick the Search in 'Name' column only option
Of course, the Prefer filename over path option would be functional ONLY IF, both, the two new options are checked. If NOT, the Prefer filename over path option would be greyed out !

Nevertheless, I don’t know if this enhancement could perturb the Fuzzy search feature ?

To end with, the new Fuzzy search seems very powerful. However, after reading the Wikipedia article on that topic, I did not understand all the process. In some cases, I could get the same number of results with regexes but not in all the cases ;-))

So, could you provide us with some more hints on this surprising search method and its logic ?

Best Regards,

guy038

sualk

Can you make the plugin darkmode capable?

Mark Olson

@guy038

Good suggestions! I’ve been enjoying working on this plugin, and I don’t know what Oleksii has in mind, but I’m planning to start working on adding glob syntax to NavigateTo, along with | for logical OR and <expression> for grouping.

Ideally I’d like to be able to do something like this:
*foo*.txt | <bar baz.md>
which would match (.txt files with foo in the filename (but not elsewhere in the path) OR (files named baz.md with bar somewhere else in the path)

I can also port in the dark mode support that was recently added to the NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack, @sualk.