Document Explorer for Silverbullet

[Mr.Red]

@zeus-web

It might be nice to have kind of “reverse” filter option as settings.
That would make it possible to hide some pages or folders from the tree by default (I don’t want to see a some folders during daily use, like “SETTINGS” or “_EXPORT” or “Library”

[UdpadeLog]

• added new negative filter in the config to hide certain Files/Folders throughout the explorer
  by: path, extensions or wildcard. It’s just a basic text filter, not regex or any fancy filter.

  e.g. add following to your config.set:

  explorer.negativeFilter = {"Library/Std","*.js", "*test*"}

  

[Mr.Red]

I would like to migrate the Document Explorer from the unicode&emoji icons to a more unified icon design (Lucide Icons)

The question is which color combo you prefer?

• [A]: Dark 1 + Light 1
• [B]: Dark 2 + Light 1
• [C]: Dark 1 + Light 2
• [D]: Dark 2 + Light 2

My personal preference is [B] Dark 2 + Light 1

[marcoswur]

Hello…
A suggestion to optimize space in the filter line…
Use 1 button instead of 3 to change the display mode…
Pressing it changes to the next view and the icon.

[Mr.Red]

I don’t like that approach at all. because when I want to jump from grid view to tree view, i need to press the button two times to toggle through to the correct one.
in my pinion the three button design doesn’t takes up so much space. and also the filter expands when you click it. And BTW what kind of SuperLooooongfiltersDoYouUse that you don’t have enough space?

[marcoswur]

Okay… I use it in list mode and it’s very narrow.
When in floating mode, the size is much larger and usually in grid mode to view the images.

[Mr.Red]

would this solution work for you?

Collapsed Filter Input:

Filter Input in focus:

[Mr.Red]

[UpdateLog]

Complete Style Redesign using Lucide Icons

Easy Color theming using the example space-style provided

+ minor fixes

[rharmonson (techore)]

@Mr.Red

Easy Color theming using the example space-style provided

Now I get to create Tokyo Night - Light/Dark themes for Document Explorer. Thanks?

[rharmonson (techore)]

Well done on the theming documentation. Very much appreciated.

Loving the tree view. Looks great! May have questions but need to dig in and poke around a bit.

[Mr.Red]

@rharmonson

Well done on the theming documentation. Very much appreciated.

Thank you! I had people in mind who like to configure colors to make it in their own style. it’s not 100% configurable, but the main colors are customizable

@rharmonson

Loving the tree view. Looks great!

Tree-view is currently the one i least spent time with, still need to add collapse/expand-all buttons

[bau (Baudo)]

Very nice !

Request (negative filter) : to neutralize .md that I don’t want to use at the moment, I add a character to the extension (eg: xxx.md-).

To filter them, could you replace the case 2 with the following lines:

-- Case 2: *.ext or *.* (Suffix Wildcard)
elseif lowPattern:sub(1, 2) == "*." then
  local ext = lowPattern:sub(3)
  if ext:sub(1, 1) == "*" then
    ext = "[^%.]+%" .. ext:sub(2)
  end
  if lowPath:match("%." .. ext .. "$") then return true end

This extends the previous filter without distorting it.

[Mr.Red]

[UpdateLog]

• Performance Improvements by caching the file list
• improved drawPanel rendering logic to scan only working directory
• added two new buttons: Expand/Collapse TreeView and Refresh View
  
  

@bau

This extends the previous filter without distorting it.

• fixed (added your logic to Case 2)
• other minor improvements and fixes.

[marcoswur]

Very good!
The menu is getting large…
One suggestion:
In list and tree view, you could display a menu button (like on smartphones) and have it extend the menu (like in the filter field).
Leaving visible only the most important buttons.

[marcoswur]

The update button wouldn’t be necessary for me. I would update it by clicking the path link below the menu.

It still looks strange…
The best option, when the folder has a page with the same name, might be to make the folder blue. (it’s done that way in the treeview plugin). It makes the interface much cleaner.

[Mr.Red]

@marcoswur

In list and tree view, you could display a menu button (like on smartphones) and have it extend the menu (like in the filter field).

IMHO we’re not there yet that we should add a dropdown/hamburger menu…yet… but i will consider it once we crossed a certain point (maybe two more buttons, and then i will start thinking about it). I’m not a big fan of extra clicks, when it’s not necessary.

[Mr.Red]

@marcoswur

The best option, when the folder has a page with the same name, might be to make the folder blue. (it’s done that way in the treeview plugin). It makes the interface much cleaner.

i don’t understand what you mean by the page with the same name as the folder? they have different icons, they, files have labels, folder don’t. why should i make the folder blue?

[bau (Baudo)]

There is a small bug in the treeview. Scenario:

• treeview all collapsed
• select a folder witch contains files with extension “*_”
• filter
• → treeview all collapsed (but filter ok when i look the folder)

and, just for the record: in treeview mode, separate folder/file sorting would be a plus (I think you had it included in your todo list…)!

[Mr.Red]

@bau

• treeview all collapsed
• select a folder witch contains files with extension “*_”
• filter
• → treeview all collapsed (but filter ok when i look the folder)

i don’t quiet get what you are here after? i cant even rename files with any special character in their extension. Was it .md_ or .md- ? i have no idea how to reproduce this issue. can you please mak a video about it, or give exact steps to reproduce?

@bau

just for the record: in treeview mode, separate folder/file sorting would be a plus (I think you had it included in your todo list…)!

yes…soon…currently having more important infrastructural fixes to make…

[marcoswur]

In SB, the concept that ‘zef’ put (including in the video) is that there was no difference between page and folder. Just put a new page inside the page. And the treeview plugin used this concept.
When I create a page X. Then I create a page X/y in SB. The system automatically creates folder X. So X is a folder, but X is also an md file.
Almost all my folders have this format.
In Obsidian, there was a plugin to emulate writing and placing notes in the folder.
But SB (zef) eliminated this concern. You simply don’t need to think about folders.
Maybe you don’t use this, that’s why you didn’t understand. I’ll attach 2 images. List and Tree.

Here the same…

Document Explorer for Silverbullet

Great already! Just as I wanted to ask for a “collapse all” for treeview, I read, you already working on it The filter input is also great! Thanks for that. But another thing: I have a lot of pages, which are “parent” folders at the same time (or let’s say, they share the same name). What bothers me a little (!) bit, it is not clearly visible, if a page has also a folder (or vice versa), as folders are in the upper sections and the pages on the lower. Could it be possible to somehow…

[bau (Baudo)]

In summary: when you apply a filter inside a folder, the treeview closes the folder. You end up at the root of the space.

Its not a pb of filter but a pb of position after filtre applied.
(this, whatever the content of the filter - sorry for the mistake : yes, it was “-" et not "_”).

Here are the steps with negativeFilter = {"*.pdf"} :

Sorry if the previous explanation wasn’t clear.
Don’t hesitate to ask me if this is still the case.
Thanks.