Log Manager · Chapter 4

Find, Bookmarks, and Filter Bar

These are three tools for quickly finding what you need in a large volume of logs. Use the Find dialog to search for a specific string, bookmarks to mark important rows, and the filter bar to narrow the visible logs on the fly.

Find

A Notepad++-style modeless Find dialog. You can keep it open while working with the main log, so search and analysis run in parallel. Open it with Ctrl+F.

There are two tabs: Find (search in the current document) and Find in Files.
Options: Backward, Whole word, Match case, and Wrap around.
Modes: Normal, Extended (\n, \r, \t, and so on), and Regex.
Recent search terms (MRU) are kept automatically and persisted to settings.json.
Buttons: Prev, Next, Count, Find All in Doc, and Find All in Opened.

Search results are added as tabs in the search results panel at the bottom of the window. Results are grouped by file, with only the first group expanded automatically. Searching the same keyword again reuses the existing tab; a different keyword creates a new tab. Double-clicking a result jumps to that position in the corresponding file tab and scrolls it to the center. Use F3 and Shift+F3 to move to the next/previous match in the active search tab.

For rendering stability, the Log column in search results is shown at a fixed width. If the window is narrow, a horizontal scrollbar appears at the bottom.

Bookmarks

A feature for marking important rows with a number to jump back quickly, with up to nine at a time (numbers 1–9).

Assigning

Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+9: Directly assign or clear that number on the currently selected row.
- Re-assigning the same number clears it (toggle).
- If another row is using that number, it is removed from that row and moved to the current row.
Ctrl+D: Auto-bookmarks the current row with the next free number.
The Toggle Bookmark item in the right-click menu does the same.

Navigating

Toggle the bookmark navigation pane with the bookmark button on the toolbar or Ctrl+B (hidden by default, shown only when enabled).
Single-clicking an item in the pane jumps to that tab and row.
Bookmarks set in file tabs are also tracked automatically, switching to the correct tab.

Double-clicking a row opens the Detail View. Assign bookmarks with the Ctrl+1–9 shortcuts.

Live Filter Bar

Show the hidden top filter bar via the Filter Bar item in the View menu. It is hidden by default and is used to narrow the visible logs on the fly.

Text: Filters by partial match against the log's raw CSV string.
Match Case: Distinguishes uppercase and lowercase.
Level: Keeps only levels 1 through 5.
Type: Keeps only the selected value among the observed Type values.
PID: Filters by process ID.

Move focus to the filter bar with Ctrl+Shift+F, and clear the filter text with Esc while focused.