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By: John Leslie       
Date: Jul 22,2023 at 15:51
In Response to: [Help!] Active Spell Search question (Ben Kent)

> > I wanted to go to a TEMP directory, but there are a lot of
> > directories that start TEMP and using the : to add an extension gives
> > TEMP*.* with the cursor places after the dot, not TEMP.*.
> >
> > Is there a way to do an exact match in active spell search other than
> > giving up and changing to using the prompted spell search when you
> are
> > getting too many answers?
>
> John
>
> Reading the help file, probably not.
>
>
> You would need Shift-Del in active spell searech to delete the current
> character to get rid of the "*" before the "."
> You could raise a ZEP for that.
>
>
> Note:
> The help file needs an update to state that Shift-Backspace can be used
> in active mode to delete the character to the left of the cursor.
>
>
>
> Other ways
> 1. Prompted spell search
> Then the *.* can be deleted.
>
>
> 2. Directory mode
> Navigate to the parent of TEMP
> s[W]itch to Directory mode
> [F]ilter TEMP
> Enter into the "file" window
> The highlight should be on TEMP
> \
> s[W]itch to File mode
>
>
>
> 3. Macros
> If it's a common action for you, you could create a F12 macro.
>
> Using the prefix from active spell search
> |,DEL
>
>
> Including the filter in the macro
> |,CTRL_BKSP,TEMP,DEL
>
> If you don't use macros for other things, then you can Alt-F12 to
> re-run the last mecro.
>
>
> Ben

Not that common an action, but common enough it's annoying when you find a boat-load of matches and have to start again somehow, rather than having an "exact matches only" option. Many thanks for the time you put in on the helpful answer!

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