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Find And Run Robot / ctrl+Space : Anyway to stop it
« on: August 26, 2008, 02:12 PM »
Is there anyway to stop FARR using the Ctrl+Space hotkey to open itself up? 

I have another application that uses Ctrl+Space (just within the application not as a universal hotkey) and I can't use it because FARR takes control as soon as I press Ctrl+Space. I only use Break to launch FARR so the loss of Ctrl+Space wouldn't affect me, but I guess it would affect others. Is there an option to turn this on/off or even better a way to set a custom key combination to launch FARR?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Aliases - at a loss with them
« on: July 10, 2008, 05:51 PM »
If I understand what you want then you need the following

have an alias I can add things to, along the lines of the mygames example, as a kind of handy container for groups of frequently used files.
-Smith-Corona (July 10, 2008, 02:16 PM)

1. Create an alias of say "myfiles"
2. Set the results to be the list of files you want. For example:

[Select]
g:\rubbish\tax2.xls
z:\photolist.txt
p:\isorecorder.txt

You should now get the list of files when you enter "myfiles" just press enter for the one you want.

have aliases for certain frequently used directories, so I can narrow the search down to them straightaway. Eg I often know that the file I'm looking for is somewhere in the tangle of directories underneath My Documents, so I want FARR to start there and not bother looking anywhere else. So I would have an alias "md" say, whose "result" would be the My Documents folder and would save me the bother of typing out c:\documents and settings\etc\etc every time. then I could just type "md obscurefile.txt" for something I knew was somewhere in My Documents.
-Smith-Corona (July 10, 2008, 02:16 PM)

I'm not sure this needs an alias. I think the way to get this to work is as follows:

1. Add a new search folder
2. Set the directory path to be "C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\My Documents"
3. Set a keyword modifier of "md"

To use it type something like "+md obscurefile.txt" or "obscurefile.txt +md" and it should work

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - right click on results Command prompt here option
« on: July 10, 2008, 01:00 PM »
Right clicking on results feels a bit odd in FARR because is "the ultimate program for keyboard maniacs", you type what you want and FARR does it. Typing something and then using the mouse doesn't seem to quite fit in with FARR.  I can't see a problem with right click (if people want to use right click then why not) but I wouldn't want it to become the only way of doing things.

Whilst not a right click it is possible to set up an alias to achieve this sort of thing.  Give the alias the name "cmd" and a result of: cmd.exe /k cd /d "$$1"

Then you can type things such "+cmd c:\program files" or "c:\program files +cmd" and FARR will open the command prompt in the requested folder.


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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug] very unfriendly handling of missing drive
« on: July 01, 2008, 05:04 AM »
i can use that to avoid adding removable links to history.
-mouser (July 01, 2008, 12:37 AM)
I'm not sure about avoiding adding removable links to the history. I have a USB pen drive in my machine with a range of portable apps that I use very frequently. Then when I'm on the road I just take the pen with me.  From my point of view if FARR never added anything on USB pen drive to the history then the history facility would be much less useful.

Is there way FARR could filter the history list and not use things on a removable drive if the removable drive isn't there? If speed is the issue then maybe FARR could just check the removable drives when it starts, then if the drive isn't there it filters the history for that session.

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Find And Run Robot / Launch History and non-program items
« on: June 27, 2008, 01:19 PM »
I can see that launch history records the programs the get launched, but can it store other things?

For example:

If I type "Search" then FARR will list the results from the search alias (google, yahoo, msn ...). I can just press Enter and the first entry will be used.  But suppose I choose "ask" from the list (number 5 on the list I see), it opens up ASK in my browser. Fine so far.

Now if I type "Search" again I get exactly the same results in the original order. So even if I keep selecting the "ASK" entry it never rises up the list to become the default.

Is there any way the launch history can remember things like this as well?

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