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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - Small Enhancements for Directories Browsing.

« on: October 11, 2008, 01:40 PM »

Hi,

The thing with the shortcut works however there are some problems with it. I'll play with the way it works later. My next question is: there is a folder called scripts as you pointed me to it. Unfortunately not all shortcuts are expanded. For example there is no problem with My Documents becase it is a single "standard" folder. However Control Panel and My Documents are not possible to be browsed (cpl files and windows special folders). Would it be hard to enhance farr to expand them too? Alternatively could a plugin do it *seamingly*? If yes then I could code something in javascript or .net or c/c++. Some pointers would be nice though.

Thanks,
Mateusz F.

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Find And Run Robot / Feature Request - Small Enhancements for Directories Browsing.

« on: October 11, 2008, 07:32 AM »

Hi everyone,

First traditionally I want to say that this program rocks !. However I would like to see some improvements for the Directory Browsing functionality. Maybe I'm using it wrong - in that case some directions would be very nice .

Use case:
What I want to achieve is to create some aliases to my most used directories. Currently when I do it - using a keyword, regexp and a directory - if I type it in FARR - I get the the directory path in result list as a first entry. It is great. If I press Enter my Total Commander goes to that directory.

Problems:
1) If as the dir I enter root drive i.e. C:\ or C: then browsing the subdirectories is not possible. When entering the alias in far, I get a result which will show this directory, however it is not possible to enter the subdirectories, only launch it.
2) I also tried to make an alias which would expand c to c:\ and allow also to explore it, but I don't know how to do / whether it is possible. The reason why I want to do it is because access to the \ key is not so fast on my laptop.

Suggested solution:
FARR could check if the entered path or alias resolution is a directory (standard or UNC if it is supported). If yes and the first search result is a directory then pressing right or alt+right would expand the path to this subdir path.

What do you think of this? Maybe there is another solution that I don't see?


Regards,
Mateusz F.