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Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« on: May 10, 2013, 11:43 AM »

If I understand you correctly you can write a regex like this with same effect:

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^aa\s?(.*)$

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Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« on: May 10, 2013, 02:25 AM »

The problem is with the aa alias.
You are capturing the space with the search string.
So when you type in

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aa[space]

FARR captures the space as $$1. Then in turn, you pass $$1 along to the result and have

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dosearch C:\test\[space][space]

that triggers the other alias that matches on \s\s.

I think it is good practice not to capture the space before the parameters. There is less chance of bugs like this.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Find and Run Robot - Freeze after Launch

« on: April 26, 2013, 08:45 AM »

I've sometimes got hangs in FARR when secondary disk drive got turned off by windows. Maybe that's the problem with you?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Find and Run Robot - Freeze after Launch

« on: April 26, 2013, 03:47 AM »

Do you have a folder with lots of files in your FARR search path?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« on: April 17, 2013, 05:00 PM »

So FARR is doing that?
I've recently gotten a laptop with windows 8 and it was driving me nuts with constantly adding a en-US culture/keyboard layout. I never tracked it down to FARR.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File is not started using the standard programm

« on: April 17, 2013, 04:53 PM »

Have you tried toggling the Launch method in Settings -> Launching files?
Sometimes when FARR acts strangely like this I change the Launch method setting and it works. Although I haven't had such problems in a long time.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feedback

« on: November 19, 2012, 04:39 AM »

There is a Network connections plugin that lists all your network connections. I can't find the link but I think that it can be installed through DcUpdater utility.

Alternatively you can modify your search folders settings not to use the modifier keyword for control panel shortcuts.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?

« on: April 23, 2012, 02:46 PM »

Off-topic but FWIW, I personally have copied the God Mouser mode shortcuts to the FindAndRunRobot\Scripts\Control Panel (cpanel) folder, so I can get those.

Thus:

-daddydave (April 22, 2012, 07:16 AM)

  Simple and effective. Not sure if it could be automated, so that it is included in FARR on install...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« on: April 06, 2012, 03:25 AM »

I think that it would be better to tap into the USN journal like Everything just to get the filenames or windows search index to get the content index also than to implement it all over again. There is a windows search plugin already but for me it consistently crashes FARR (win7 x64).

I use FARR to quickly find commonly used files and folders. If I need to search the entire disk I use Everything (with FARR alias to trigger it on double space at the end). Only time I use windows search index is to search for emails.

For me, index in FARR is not really necessary, as I rarely search the entire disk for just one file (ie. i search for multiple log files, or a group of images etc) and FARR cant' handle multiple files selection and manipulation (as far as I know).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2.104.02 - Plugins don't load [Windows 7/64bit]

« on: March 07, 2012, 08:42 AM »

This really seems to confuse people. If I remember correctly, those folders are placeholders needed by DcUpdater, right? Is there another way of configuring DcUpdater, at least for installation of new plugins?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« on: March 03, 2012, 01:39 PM »

february 2011? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR beta release Feb 14, 2012 -- feedback please?

« on: February 14, 2012, 08:00 AM »

As farr as I can tell, everything works fine including launching office files and windows accessories (snipping tool, iis manager etc) 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: where's the info on skinning?

« on: January 09, 2012, 07:46 AM »

I believe that the skin editor that mouser is linking to in this post is applicable:
https://www.donation....msg118605#msg118605

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: ShowDesktop

« on: December 15, 2011, 09:37 AM »

I don't want to be a drag, but isn't Win+D a shortcut to show the desktop?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: suggestion/Wish minimal gui

« on: December 15, 2011, 07:41 AM »

Try choosing a custom search background color with slenderFarr skin. That removed the flickering for me.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« on: November 17, 2011, 04:47 PM »

  Thanks mouser!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« on: November 04, 2011, 05:09 AM »

Is there any news on this?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Cannot open item!

« on: August 30, 2011, 06:24 AM »

Try using Network connections plugin for launching network connections. You can get it using DcUpdater

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] TAB key working as DOWN key

« on: July 18, 2011, 09:11 AM »

I like the alt+number combination for launching one of the first 9 results. If what I want is not in the first nine I just keep typing until it is
This is a lot quicker than down-down-down-down-down or even tab-tab-tab-tab.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: User Variable value limit and Timer plugin problem

« on: July 05, 2011, 01:42 PM »

I got the same error, yes. The Timer plugin stores it's past alarms as a JSON array in the user variable. FARR (or something else) limits the length of the value field to 1024 chars. When the array became longer than 1024 characters, everything that was behind the 1024th char was discarded. JSON string then became syntactically incorrect and caused the JSON parser error.

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Find And Run Robot / User Variable value limit and Timer plugin problem

« on: July 04, 2011, 01:37 PM »

I noticed that the user variable value length is limited to 1024 characters. It is not a problem in itself, but it causes the Timer plugin to stop working when you have enough timers in the history.

This is probably not so much a FARR core issue, as it is the Timer plugin issue.

Quick fix is to set the timer::archive uservalue to an empty array, but it would be great if the plugin could handle this automagically.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some shortcut keys don't work anymore.

« on: June 26, 2011, 08:17 AM »

I am not sure what Alt-Left should do, but as in text editors - ctrl + left or right should move the cursor one word forward or back. ctrl + shift + left or right should move the cursor one word forward or back and select the text. ctrl + backspace should delete the word left of the cursor, and ctrl+delete should delete the word after the cursor.

I would also like to note that FARR interprets croatian characters "šđčćž" as word separators. However, it is not that big of a deal for me as I don't use those characters in filenames or application names.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« on: June 23, 2011, 08:14 AM »

I use FARR and Everything in the same way Nod5 described. I use FARR for launching and whatnot, and when I want to search for a specific file somewhere on disk, I pass it to Everything native window using double space at the end. Here I don't need (or want) FARR's sorting and scoring algorithms and aditional features that FARR brings. I just want the files to be sorted alphabetically or by last modified date. I like Everything's option to include (or exclude) filepath from the search, and I also like the option to search using regex.

What I also like is that in Everything I can easily select multiple files, copy them etc. And the windows stays open. I don't like to keep FARR open. To me it is a tool - a starting position to open other tools. I mean, FARR is good at searching relatively small and precisely selected locations (like the start menu or my documents etc), and using aliases and plugins to easily connect me to web sites or services (google, weather, imdb....). It, however, is not a tool to search my entire hard drive, nor it is a tool for editing text, nor it is a file management tool, or even an programming IDE. I have other tools for that.

FARR is great, and it has a powefull plugin system. IMHO, that is enough. Only thing that could be worked on is improving the plugin system so that plugin search results would be included in FARR without explicitly calling a plugin, ie. let browser bookmarks be included in every search by default, or if someone wants - let some file searching tool feed the results to FARR (be it Everyting, Windows search or Locate32 or some other tool)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: About Windows 7 and hotkey

« on: May 17, 2011, 04:32 AM »

You could always use autohotkey
You can set up FARR to start at Pause hotkey and then use AHK to map win+space to pause

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#Space::Send {Pause}

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR window shrinks over time

« on: May 03, 2011, 09:07 AM »

As it turns out, I was already using your plugin (great work BTW) but I didn't turn on the option to keep FARR's width to percentage of screen's width.