[Qt-creator] Unexpected (?) behaviour for "Files in any project" short-cut

[Eike Ziller]

> On 20 Jan 2022, at 17:20, Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Under "Keyboard" in Qt Creator Environment Options, I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to "Locator - Files in any project". The actual behaviour I get looks more like "Files in All Projects", though.. In cases where I have "non-project" files e.g. from build inside the project directory, those may be listed, too. Is that they way it should be?
> 
> I notice that under the "Locator" tab (as opposed to the "Locator" section of "Keyboard"), the same prefix ("a") is associated with both functions - I guess that may have something to do with it. This is not something I've ever changed.
> 
> I'm using a not-quite-new version supplied with CentOS stream 8; I could try building a newer release, but do you think it would make any difference?

The shortcut setting is probably a bit misleading, because what it does, is to simply focus the Locator input and set the text to the “prefix” for the locator filter. You are right that the Files in All Project Directories and Files in Any Project filters have the same prefix by default - this was for convenience to have a prefix that shows “all files that are somehow related to all projects”.

This probably doesn’t fit all possible use cases - as it doesn’t seem to fit yours ;) . The good thing is that you can just change the prefix for the “Files in All Project Directories” filter in the settings.

Br, Eike

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