tagged view filtering

pjyoung1963 · Post by **pjyoung1963** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:33 am

I use textpad for filtering and searching debug output on very large log files.
generally this involves tagging and then copying tagged lines to a new file to reduce the data set, often several different views being created
It would be extremely useful to have a feature whereby the view could be filtered so only tagged lines are displayed or hidden.

Additionally, allowing a search set to be defined whereby multiple saved searches can be performed rather than having to perform each tagging operation independantly.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:44 pm

You could make a macro to Toggle Bookmarks, then Delete Bookmarked Lines. Assign a hot key to the macro, and you can now make that happen with a keystroke!

Macro steps:
Search/Invert all bookmarks
Edit/Delete/Bookmarked Lines

pjyoung1963 · Post by **pjyoung1963** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:51 pm

yes I realize this is possible, I usually end up copying bookmarked lines to a new document as I need to keep thr source data, but as I said these are large files, often up to several hundred MBytes, and I usually need multiple views before tracing the problem.
This results in Textpad having open multiple files of tens to hundreds of MB each.

richardt8 · Post by **richardt8** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:37 pm

I have to agree with this suggestion