Re: Repharsing [MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path]

2017-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/10/2017 09:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-12-10, Richard Owlett wrote: I have not discovered a pattern in how the default for "Look in folder:" is determined. Man page for Mate search tool says: OPTIONS --path=PATH Set the text of "Look in folder" search option

Re: Repharsing [MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path]

2017-12-10 Thread Curt
On 2017-12-10, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have not discovered a pattern in how the default for "Look in folder:" > is determined. Man page for Mate search tool says: OPTIONS --path=PATH Set the text of "Look in folder" search option so presumably (hah!) editing the

Repharsing [MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path]

2017-12-10 Thread Richard Owlett
For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where the desired file is. Either I'm researching a problem with an unfamiliar program or I know that very similar file names exist in several folders. Therefore, I wish to set "Look in folder: to "File System". How? "MATE Search

Re: MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path

2017-12-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 14:31:25 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/08/2017 01:46 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 07:25:48 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where the > > > desired file is. Either I'm researching a

Re: MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path

2017-12-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/08/2017 01:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 07:25:48 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where the desired file is. Either I'm researching a problem with an unfamiliar program or I know that very similar file names exist

Re: MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path

2017-12-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 07:25:48 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where the > desired file is. Either I'm researching a problem with an unfamiliar program > or I know that very similar file names exist in several folders. > > Therefore,

MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path

2017-12-08 Thread Richard Owlett
For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where the desired file is. Either I'm researching a problem with an unfamiliar program or I know that very similar file names exist in several folders. Therefore, I wish to set "Look in folder: to "File System". How? TIA