Ability to toggle time based filtering and string match based filtering separately

[ConorMurphy21]

I am able to script this myself so I don't think this is the highest priority, though I think my script would be significantly slower and work similar to the way ctrl + f works instead of :toggle-filtering. But I thought I'd mention the use case, and see what you think.

I personally prefer :toggle-filtering over ctrl + f. This is because I like to look at the logs, add a new filter for a line I see that looks interesting, toggle it off and keep looking for other interesting lines until I have a list of filters that I think should give me an idea of what's going on. While I'm doing this though, if I decide I want to disable a filter temporarily it will ruin my workflow because now when I toggle off filters I actually just toggle on the filters that are in limbo. :toggle-filtering works perfectly in this regard. The problem I have with :toggle-filtering is that it also toggles time-filtering (hide-lines-before, hide-lines-after). In my workflow that makes the time-filtering much less useful because I have to be much more aware of the timestamps when looking for filters to add.

As for a proposed solution. I'm not exactly sure because having more granular filtering probably leads to hierarchical filtering which opens up a can of worms. Assuming that for backwards compatibility reasons, changing what :toggle-filtering does isn't on the table. I guess my proposal would be to have 3 bits (though maybe others would prefer more granular like in, out filters idk). But 1 bit for filtering-enabled, 1 for time-filtering-enabled, and 1 for text-filtering-enabled. :toggle-filtering, :toggle-time-filtering, :toggle-text-filtering would toggle each respectively. Or alternatively an option to the existing command e.g. :toggle-filtering --time / -t. And then only enable text filtering if both bits are 1, and same with time filtering.

[tstack]

I personally prefer :toggle-filtering over ctrl + f.

Hmm, this seems like a bug. CTRL + F should probably be bound to :toggle-filtering. The current keymap has it running an UPDATE that changes the enabled/disabled state of the individual filters.

Your main point sounds reasonable.

[ConorMurphy21]

I just noticed, this is also the case with set-min-log-level, not sure if it makes sense for log level filtering to be able to be toggled separate from text-filtering.