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Find And Run Robot / Re: Looking for a little help with arguments.

« on: May 26, 2008, 04:20 PM »

Mouser - Thanks very much for your instantaneous response!

I understand that FARR must by default look for more search terms as the entry is expanded.  But I thoroughly endorse your last thought of using some marker of arguments.  My personal preference is for one or two "escape" characters at most:

k-meleon ::argument_terms or  k-meleon \+argument_terms

preferable (from the point of view of typing) to k-meleon +args argument_terms

In the same vein, I appreciated discovering the +sall modifier to expand search results, but found it a bit more than ideal to type.  The longer +term syntax has the virtue of clarity for macros and aliases, but strikes me as longish for routine keyboard use.

Thanks again for your extraordinary work.

Josh

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Looking for a little help with arguments.

« on: May 26, 2008, 01:32 PM »

I am new to FARR, after trying -- and dropping -- most of the competitors (Launchy, Slickrun, Keybreeze, etc.) and am really impressed thus far (FARR?).  I have a reasonable understanding of reg expressions, though I am still figuring out aliases. 

What mystifies me as a new user is why there is apparently no native, out-of-the-box handling of arguments.  For example, I am very happy to discover that entering k- in the box brings up k-meleon browser at the top of the search list, I hit tab, Enter, and launch the browser. 

However, if try to give it an argument in the box,

    C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe  www.google.com

on hitting return I get nothing.  It seems to me that launching a program this way with argument(s) would be the expected default (i.e. no alias) behavior, or, I guess, the behavior I would want.  Just as I can type in a dos console

    "C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" www.google.com

and launch an instance of the browser with the URL. (Parens required -- but couldn't FARR even make them unnecessary?)

I won't be surprised if I am missing something simple.  Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, and thanks for your hard work and really impressive coding.



PS Just now it occurs to me I can use

     run C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe www.google.com

which works nicely, but if I start by typing run k-.... FARR finds a list of Rs rather than Ks.  Does this mean in order to make use of *any* arguments, the user is obliged to have set up an alias in advance?  Thanks again.