[Feature request(s)] Aliases

[illicium]

This is a wonderful program - thank you for it!

As my alias list grows, it would be great if...

(a) there was a feature which could reorder my aliases alphabetically, so that I could spend less time searching through them under Options  when I need to; and

(b) it would also be good if there was a mechanism to export just simple alias information - really, just trigger/keyword and results- so as to be able to put them into a .txt etc file and print them out. (I am aware it's possible to export a full .csv file, but then sifting through that and isolating the information I want to keep is rather a laborious task!

Thanks again for this pprogram!

[Nod5]

Hi, here is a small Autohotkey script that I think does what you're requesting in (b). It exports the alias and results fields in myaliases.alias to a textfile on the desktop.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ;FARR myaliases: export alias and result fields to txt list
2. myaliases := A_MyDocuments "\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\myaliases.alias"
3. output := A_Desktop "\myalias_" A_Now ".txt"
4. if !FileExist(myaliases)
5.  exitapp
6. Loop, Read, %myaliases%, %output%
7. {
8. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<AliasText>(.*)</AliasText>", alias)
9. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<Result>(.*)</Result>", result)
10. FileAppend, % alias1 ? "`n" alias1 "`n" : result1 ? result1 "`n" : ""
11. }
12. exitapp

Like you I also hope for sorting/filtering for the aliases window in FARR. Though I think an editbox to live filter the list of aliases would be more useful than sorting options like A-Z etc. But both would be great. Aliases is an outstanding FARR feature and sets FARR apart from many other launchers.

Edit: here is a version of the script that also includes the Regex lines

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ;FARR myaliases: export alias and result fields to txt list
2. myaliases := A_MyDocuments "\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\myaliases.alias"
3. output := A_Desktop "\myalias_" A_Now ".txt"
4. if !FileExist(myaliases)
5.  exitapp
6. Loop, Read, %myaliases%, %output%
7. {
8. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<AliasText>(.*)</AliasText>", alias)
9. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<Regex>(.*)</Regex>", reg)
10. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<Result>(.*)</Result>", result)
11. FileAppend, % alias1 ? "`n" alias1 "`n" : result1 ? result1 "`n" : reg1 ? reg1 "`n" : ""
12. }
13. exitapp

[nitrix-ud]

Thanks Nod5 for sharing this 

[Nod5]

In case someone has notification or finds this thread, I did a workaround script to filter the aliases list here .

[IainB]

I missed that. Thanks for cross-posting.
Nice workaround script.