void's Everything settings

[Coldblackice]

@void

Out of curiosity, any chance you'd mind posting your Everything settings? I'm curious how you, the developer, utilize Everything, as a reference compared to my/others/default settings.

I realize everyone's needs different and one's settings won't automatically be the best for everyone. That said, it would still be an interesting comparison knowing how you specifically set/tweak your Everything for your day-to-day use, as it could reveal settings/features I'm not yet utilizing and/or settings set suboptimally. It would then provide a jumping off point for researching these differences and features further via the forum.

I'd be curious to know @NotNull 's settings, as well, if open to sharing.

[void]

For everyday use:

Stock settings with the following changes:
Config: auto_include_fixed_volumes=0 (Tools -> Options -> NTFS -> Automatically include new fixed volumes = don't auto include new volumes)
Config: home_search=0 (Tools -> Options -> Home -> Search = use last search)
Config: path_ellipsis=1 (Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> path_ellipsis = show ... in the middle of long paths)
Config: journal_max_size=33554432 (Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Max Journal Size = store more changes to my indexes)
(from Help -> Troubleshooting Information)

With the Metal theme and Cyan icon.



For development use:

Stock settings, in a dev instance with the Blood theme.

[Stamimail]

Do we have a mechanism for sharing multiple settings? (save, set and reset)

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You didn't share some code

[void]

To backup your settings:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Import and Export Settings.
• Select Export settings.
• Click Next.
• Click Browse....
• Select a filename and click Save.
• Click Export.
• Click Finish.

Please do this before changing your settings.



void's standard settings: void-standard.ini
void's dev settings: void-dev.ini

To import void's settings:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Import and Export Settings.
• Select Import settings.
• Click Next.
• Click Browse....
• Select an ini from above and click Open.
• Click Import.
• Check Restart Everything.
• Click Finish.
  Everything will restart to apply your new settings.

To restore your settings:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Import and Export Settings.
• Select Import settings.
• Click Next.
• Click Browse....
• Select your Everything.ini backup file and click Open.
• Click Import.
• Check Restart Everything.
• Click Finish.
  Everything will restart to apply your new settings.

To reset your settings to their default values:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Import and Export Settings.
• Select Reset settings.
• Click Next.
• Click Reset.
• Click Yes to confirm.
• Check Restart Everything.
• Click Finish.
  Everything will restart to reset your settings.

Alternatively:

To load void's standard settings:
Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:

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/auto_include_fixed_volumes=0;home_search=0;path_ellipsis=1;journal_max_size=33554432;theme=2;listview_item_margin_bottom=1;dark_accent=1;dark_accent_color=#00ffff;selected_border=1

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.



To load void's dev settings:
Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:

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/theme=2;listview_item_margin_bottom=1;dark_accent=1;dark_accent_color=#ff0000;selected_border=1

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.



To restore void's settings to their default values:
Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:

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/auto_include_fixed_volumes=;home_search=;path_ellipsis=;journal_max_size=;theme=;listview_item_margin_bottom=;dark_accent=;dark_accent_color=;selected_border=

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.



In short, you can save just the settings of interest in an ini file
-or-
With a search command using a semicolon delimited list of key=value pairs.
For example: /setting1=value1;setting2=value2;setting3=value3;...
Set to an empty value to use the default value.

Settings
/key=value
Themes

[NotNull]

I'd be curious to know @NotNull 's settings, as well, if open to sharing.

Sure. There were 879 non-default settings. Most of these are not very interesting (like current window size or column width)
The rest:

Home settings. These are probably my most important settings.
When pressing a keyboard shortcut (default: 'ALT + Home'), all search settings are reverted to a well known state so I know what results to expect.

home_match_case=1
home_match_whole_word=1
home_match_path=1
home_match_diacritics=1
home_match_prefix=1
home_match_suffix=1
home_ignore_punctuation=1
home_ignore_whitespace=1
home_regex=1
home_filter=1
home_columns=1
home_sort=1
home_view=1
home_omit_results=2


Property indexing

I index the following properties system-wide (minus the C:\Windows folder):
Alternate Data Stream Count, Alternate Data Stream Names, Hard Link Count, Hard Link Filenames, Version
(and Attrributes are also indexed (Options > Indexes)


Content indexing

The following filetypes are content-indexed (in a few selected folders):
*.cmd;*.ahk;*.ps1;*.ini;*.cue

.cue files are included because the server with most of my music is often off-line. Using my Songs filter [1], I still can find all songs.

Looks
listview_margin_left=10 ; extra margin on the left for JumpToFolder
window_style_remove=0x00100000 ; no horizontal scrollbar
menu=0 ; don't show menu (ALT activates is)
path_ellipsis=1
folder_append_path_separator=1
search_close_button=0 ; dont show the "x" in the search bar
filters_visible=1 ; show filters bar next to the search bar

(will post colour theme settings on a separate occasion)


Searching
convert_forward_slash_to_backslash=1
match_whole_filename_when_using_wildcards=0
match_end_of_filename_with_dollar_sign=1
match_start_of_filename_with_caret=1
omit_results=1 ; (65% of all files/folders are omitted)


Performance (specific for this system)
db_update_thread_priority=-1
folder_rescan_timeout=60000
find_first_file_path_not_found_retry_timeout=30000
poll_opened_files_rate=3000


Interaction
path_hit_text_only=0
full_name_select=1
ctrl_mouse_wheel_action=2 ; CTRL +scroll zooms
ctrl_shift_mouse_wheel_action=1 ; CTRL + SHIFT +scroll changes view (details/thumbnails/)
mbutton_action=2 ; explore in Everything
show_copy_name=1
show_copy_path=1
view_preview_keys=592,337 ; added CRL +Q as it is easy to press (on a qwerty keyboard) and I toggle this very often.
history_home_keys=548,172,511 ; 'Fn + CTRL' resets search settings
search_edit_clear_keys=27 ; ESC clears the search bar (and leaves all settings the same)

Other
double_quote_copy_as_path=1
filelist_explore_folder_in_everything=1
search_history_keep_forever=0
inc_run_count_on_drag_drop=1
plugins=0 ; plugins are disabled
exclude_folders=T:\TEMP\FF2 ; the only excluded folder; it contains FireFox cache (T: = RAM-drive)
shell_short_path=0 ; 8.3 filenames are disabled on my systems so no point in trying to use them.
shell_short_name=0
open_folder_command2=$exec("c:\Tools\Q-Dir\Q-Dir_x64.exe" /e>>%1)
open_path_command2=$exec("c:\Tools\Q-Dir\Q-Dir_x64.exe" /e,/select,"%1")


Unknown
No idea where these came from or what they do; probably some remaining legacy settings.
set_foreground_window_attach_thread_input=0
rename_nav=1
advanced_search_focus_id=1138




[1] Import this filter for details:
Songs-filter.csv

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Name,Case,Whole Word,Path,Diacritics,Prefix,Suffix,Ignore Punctuation,Ignore Whitespace,Regex,Search,Columns,Sort,Descending,View,Macro,Key
"Songs",0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,"<ext:mp3;flac  %1: >  |   <ext:cue content:%1: > regex:dotall:content:(.*)   addcol:A  A-label:=""CUE""  A:=regmatch1:","","",0,,"song<%1>",