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Find And Run Robot / Re: Update to new FARR portable version?
« on: April 16, 2021, 06:13 AM »
All the settings are in the FindAndRunRobot.ini file, aliases are stored in *.alias files and plugins are in plugins directory. Just make sure this files are preserved and you should be fine.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR mini weather report from wttr.in
« on: November 24, 2020, 05:45 AM »
Cool idea, but wouldn't it be easier to have the weather be shown in the results?
something like an alias with htmlviewurl https://wttr.in/london?format=%c+%t+%C in the results?

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I would usually restrict the results of a search folder by including the -\ in the alias that utilizes the search folder, instead of the folder setting itself.

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From what I can tell, there is no way for the alias action keyword to modify the search results appearance. IMHO, that is not something I would need, but it might be cool/beneficial to have the option. Usually my action modifiers are some small programs and scripts, which would just make all my alias results look like default autohotkey or exe icon.

You could maybe achieve this with some combination of appcapresult and external scripts that returns preformatted results, leveraging the showfilehtml action modifier, but I haven't used appcapresult so I can't say.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR doesn't display icons for exes in path
« on: October 28, 2020, 04:36 AM »
I've noticed that FARR doesn't display an icon for programs that are in path.

I have an alias with lists some consoles:
1000>>>>->Windows Terminal | wt.exe>n>Conemu | D:\util\conemu\conemu64.exe>n>Powershell as admin | pwsh.exe /runasadmin>+>^cmd$

The icons for pwsh.exe and wt.exe aren't shown in the result list.
2020-10-28 10_01_28-Window.png

Powershell is located in C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe, and when I set the absolute path in the alias, the icon is shown. I am guessing that FARR doesn't know how to resolve the exe when it's in path to get the icon from it?
where pwsh
points to the correct location from cmd, I am sure there is a way for FARR to determine the exe location as well.

Windows terminal is a whole other beast, since it is installed as "Windows10 app", however it's called. The actual exe is located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.3.2651.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\wt.exe, which I guess changes with each version. The wt.exe that is in path is located in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe, and that is a zero length file. I am guessing it is a link of some sort, but it doesn't look like a symbolic or a hard link. This file however doesn't have an icon. I have no idea how to even try to solve this.

I am currently getting arround this with setting custom icons with /icon= alias keyword, but it would be awesome if FARR could manage on it's own.

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Second line gets removed if the alias has no name (only regex match), if that helps.

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You can do this thing now, with this set of aliases:

1000>>>html>->showfilehtml $$1
1000>>>search for html>->dosearch $$1 -\ C:\path\here +html>+>^hh (.*)

The first one is a helper alias, you can use to show any file as html by appending +html to the search.

The second one uses the helper, but restricting the search and providing a short alias for it. It is triggered by typing "hh " and filtering the results down. You can add additional filters to the alias, to remove the folders (-\), to search in a specific folder (C:\path\here), or event a set of search folders each with own rules (+myfoldergroup).

I actually use this setup to help searching for code on my pc, and opening a console window in the project folders etc, works beautifully.

Relevant docs:
https://www.donation..._action_keywords.htm
https://www.donation...rch_to_files_or_.htm

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Wouldn't the same thing be more easily avoided delaying the search until you stop typing? Ie, a 100ms delay (configurable?) after last letter typed to begin searching. Every letter typed resets the counter.

But it seems to me that there is already something similar implemented in FARR, since the search status quickly changes to "Search delay initialized" when I start typing.

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Honestly, I don't see how this should be a FARR feature. I know FARR is awesome, but IMHO it is awesome precisely because it does one thing and does it well.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
« on: February 10, 2020, 02:18 AM »
How is this working? Do you get the results in FARR? That would mean indexing on FARR exists!!!!
-Filipe Meira Castro (February 09, 2020, 05:56 PM)
No indexing in FARR. The alias is triggered by appending two spaces the end of a search string. The alias opens everything.exe with the search query from FARR.

I use it when searching for things in FARR, if it doesn't provide a result, just append two spaces, same query is then searched in Everything

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - Suggested Hotkey
« on: January 24, 2020, 05:04 AM »
Found win+space is not used anywhere and also does not trigger anything
For what it's worth Win+space is used to switch keyboard language on Win10

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
« on: January 23, 2020, 07:31 AM »
 :Thmbsup: Works like a charm. Thanks.
Sorry, I kind of missed the beta version so I didn't test it before.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
« on: January 23, 2020, 06:40 AM »
Something is broken with the latest version, some of my aliases have stopped working as intended.

So I have an alias like this:
1000>>>Search with Everything>->dolaunch C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "$$1">+>(.*)\s\s$

When I trigger the alias, I get the everything command line options window, instead of the search results. It behaves like I executed just "Everything.exe -search", so the quotes and the $$1 is missing.
I have other examples but this is the simplest one.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - Suggested Hotkey
« on: January 23, 2020, 05:24 AM »
I use Alt+Space, and move my windows using the win+arrow keys (which is default in windows 10, and I believe 8 as well).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Restart & Shutdown under FARR?
« on: January 15, 2020, 08:19 AM »
Those should work. Try running shutdown /r /t 0 in cmd and see what happens.
But honestly, since Win10 I find that windows shortcuts are much faster:
Win+X, u, u -- for shutdown
Win+X, u, r -- for restart

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I see this with Everything.

Screenshot_1.png

Note that Everything result number 1 is installed in c:\program files\Everything, 64bit, icon is wrong. Result number 2 is portable Everything located in a search folder known to FARR, icon is correct

I am running windows 10.

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Find And Run Robot / Bug: drag and drop files doesn't always work
« on: November 13, 2017, 07:22 AM »
I've noticed that sometimes drag and drop is not working as intended. I can usually find a file in FARR, drag it from the search results and drop it to some other app to do an action.
For example dragging an mp3 to foobar2000 will add it to the playlist, dragging any file to desktop will copy it there etc.

I've noticed that it doesn't always work, for example dragging and dropping to a new message window in Outlook doesn't do anything. I expect it to attach the file to the message.


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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possibility to chain searches?
« on: August 14, 2017, 01:45 PM »
There is an alias setup that enables you to do a similar thing.
ie, you find the file and append . to the search string and the result list is replaced with a menu of programs to run on the file.
it should be configurable per filename extension etc, and you need to play a little with FARR aliases.

Here is the link to the original thread, it has all the details:
https://www.donation....msg394054#msg394054

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I've tried playing with the settings a bit.
This is only apparent when using "Large icon slides"

My settings are as follows:
Results display style: Large icon slides

Max entries to display in normal result list: 100
Max entries to display in extended results list: 100
Max size to grow results window: 9

Switch from Large to Small Icons on DirLists - Off
Switch from Large to Small Icons to Fit Results - Off

If I switch Results display style to Small Icon Report then it's ok,
If I turn on the Switch from Large to Small Icons to Fit Results then it's ok.
But results are displayed in a condensed list, which I personally don't like :)

If I set Max entries to display in normal result list to 9, which is equal to Max size to grow, then it's ok, but then there is only 9 results.

Can you make the Large Icon Slides calculate window height correctly?

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I guess i am just used to launch FARR search panel and type my program of file name without trying to remember which modifier for which folders or files is set.
That is all fine, but you have to take into consideration that FARR is not designed to search over large sets of files/folders, and forcing it to do so will just ruin the experience.
Also if you think about it, you'll have your search modifiers commited to muscle memory in no time, so that will become almost a non issue. I don't event think about what modifier is for what, just type and the right stuff happens.

I know it's a hassle having to deal with this, but when you think about it, you can probably get away with two or three different modifiers, depending on your setup. For example a separate modifier for network mounted drives, since they're slow by default. And one for large collections of files (ie music, documents or whatever)

Other thing you can do is try to narrow down the search, when defining search folders. For example I have a folder where I keep all my source code for projects, work and stuff, and it is a huge collection of files (19 GB, 150 000 files, over 29000 folders). However, when I want to launch something from there it is usually just the solution, or project file, and it is normally found 2 or 3 levels deep in the folder structure. So I have added file extension restritions to only include *.sln and *.csproj files, 4 levels deep into the folder structure, and now it is blazing fast - and it works awesome.

If you can't do that you can narrow the search by excluding files from folders, for example you will almost never want to launch a *.dll file, so add it to extension restriction (with a minus: -dll) so it will skip those files.

As I said, it depends on your setup.

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Additional benefit is that when you actually launch something from the folders that are not included in the search by default, it gets added to launch history, and FARR promptly offers the same results in default search.

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I have a similar set of folders, but I've taken a different approach, using modifier keywords. That way by default FARR doesn't search those folders, unless I explicitly want to.
So for example my music folder has a modifier keyword "music", and if I want to search music I just append +music to the search. That causes FARR to search only my music folders. Note you can have multiple folders with same keyword modifier, and multiple modifiers for same folders, so this is really flexible.
Similarly I have search modifier keywords for work documents (+w), dropbox (+db), code (+cc), etc.

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I am just wodnering, what is included in your search folders? I am asking because most of the time I don't have time to see what folder is being searched currenlty, let alone pressing shortcuts to skip it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Assign hotkeys to user-toolbar items
« on: July 24, 2017, 08:24 AM »
1) Another aproach would be to create an alias with a list of tools you use regularly, and have it shown as default when you open FARR.
(Options/History options, Blank search shows files from launch history, or as if the search string was...)

2) If you don't like farr showing results, or want to actually show history on launch,
- assign a short regex to the alias (something like ff or jj) so you can bring it up easily.
- You can assign a custom hotkey to FARR and have it be launched with that alias already called.

From there you can use alt+number shortcut to launch items directly

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Assign hotkeys to user-toolbar items
« on: July 21, 2017, 09:02 AM »
Honestly, I don't see the benefit in that. If you have farr toolbar items in farr just to launch stuff, you would have to launch farr (lets say alt-space) and then hit another short cut to launch a toolbar program - ctrl+shift+1 or whatever. That's two shortcuts instead of one :)

I would rather create an autohotkey script that would just launch stuff with a hotkey...

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