Preference to keep the search history for good
This is a feature request to keep the search history for good. It can be added to one of the hidden preferences. - I am aware that I can move them to the bookmark to keep them for good; but, that is a lot of manual work. I am hoping that keeping a large history won't have any effect on the performance.
Re: Preference to keep the search history for good
I'd like to second this feature request. The functionality would be like a web browser, where you can turn search history on or off. It's sometimes helpful to be able to retrace ones steps, for example, after adding items to an index. On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:47:44 AM UTC-7, Des Bw wrote: > > This is a feature request to keep the search history for good. It can be > added to one of the hidden preferences. > > - I am aware that I can move them to the bookmark to keep them for good; > but, that is a lot of manual work. > > I am hoping that keeping a large history won't have any effect on the > performance. >
I also like the idea of keeping a search history and being able to edit it, perhaps even grouping related searches. I started using the templates for that effect. Any features allowing automated queries of longer lists and saving a portion of hits and their contexts as a text file, as is possible with dtsearch, would be much appreciated.
Ray Jonas wrote: > I'd like to second this feature request. The functionality would be like a web browser, where you can turn search history on or off. It's sometimes helpful to be able to retrace ones steps, for example, after adding items to an index. > > On August 7, 2018, Des Bw wrote: > This is a feature request to keep the search history for good. It can be added to one of the hidden preferences. The search history is already there in FoxTrot Pro (menu Bookmarks / Bookmarks Window). History is kept during 90 days. You can change how long to keep it by opening in TextEdit the file "com.ctmdev.FoxTrotPro.prefs" (not the .plist one) from your ~/Library/Preferences folder, then change the value in the line: 90 Note that you should quit FoxTrot Pro before modifying this file, or your changes will be overwritten. Jérôme - Foxtrot Engineering
Dear Ray Jonas, Thank you so much. That is exactly what I have been looking for. 10000
Note that since version 7, there is now a preference pane for this; you no longer need to edit the .prefs file manually.
I don't have Foxtrot 7 yet. I am not really in a position to upgrade Foxtrot soon. Thank you for the nice hack. It will be of great function.