Hi Toby,

today I analyzed a more complicated case where I had to simultaneously look at log files from different sources. So I merged them to one log.
However since the number of log entries was so large that I had to pick out several messages in different combinations to narrow down the problem. For this I intensively used the merged filters (OR). However since I had to merge sometimes up to 6 different filters in different combinations (and since existing OR filters cannot be modified), things got a bit confusing temporarily. This brought up a wish I had for some time now.

It would be very nice to see also the single elements of the merged OR filter in the "Log Files & Filters" tree. What came to my mind is to make the OR filtered view expandable and collapsible. When expanding it, it lists the filters that are combined in the OR filter. This would also allow the modification of the filters, which is something that is also currently not possible. And even further (think that would be a new feature) one could also combine AND and OR filters to from expressions like "F1 OR F2 OR (F3 AND F4)" (The rule would be that the OR filter sums up the leaf nodes of each of it's subtrees.)

I tried to make a small illustration to show the idea.


What do you think?

Thanks
Andreas