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By: Laurent Duchastel     Montréal, Québec  
Date: Oct 10,2014 at 15:45
In Response to: [Zeta] v2.4.155 Now Available (Kim Henkel)

> Added - Alt-Info - w/Path: full path length
> Added - Alt-Sort - Full - sort by full path length

Oh this is great! Thanks a lot!
I already used it to flag problematic filenames with OneDrive!

1. Log all files under branch, 2) sorth Full by branch, 3) Alt-I to find out by how many characters the longest filename is, 4) adjust manually



May I add however refinement suggestions to this wonderful new feature?

1) Longest full path is calculated from root. Could it be optionally calculated relatively from branch ?

Rational: OneDrive allows file max 255 path+filename *from its own root*. Thus, I have to mentally substract from every filename the 26 characters provided by "D:\Users\Laurent\OneDrive\", because a 273 Full path filename won't be problematic.

2) Could Zcolors.ini colorize by filename Length / Full Path Length / Relative Path Lenght ?

Rational: Simply use the full potential of colorization and bypass need to Alt-Info each time. For instance, mask for OneDrive compatibility checking could be easily written as:

>r255:Red

l could stand for Length
f could stand for Full Path Length
r could stand for Relative Path Length

This could also simplify existing colorization syntax. For instance, this mask I use :

-???????????????????????????????????????????.*:Bri yellow on bri Red

could be simplify as:

>l50:Bri yellow on bri Red

(This is a mask I use with Endnote bibliographical software which doesn't support filename longer than 50 for attachments (including dot and extension)).


3) Not required, but if Zcolor.ini is improved with above suggestion, would it be natural to also improve Filter the same way?


Laurent Duchastel

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