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General Software Discussion / Re: Open selected files from a windows folder

« on: September 07, 2022, 03:04 PM »

So basically it appears to have no rhyme or reason.

-Deozaan (September 07, 2022, 11:48 AM)

Feels like Microsoft is nerd sniping us

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General Software Discussion / Re: duckduckgo for email?

« on: August 29, 2022, 07:22 AM »

I've tried the basic version where you get a [email protected] email alias. Works as expected. Useful if you don't want to use your main email to sign up for some site or newsletter. There are many other similar services but DuckDuckGo is well known and has a pretty good privacy track record.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Split a video in n equal parts.

« on: August 28, 2022, 12:10 PM »

I am afraid is only for mpeg videos.

-Contro (August 27, 2022, 08:52 AM)

Nope https://www.ffmpeg.o...al.html#Video-Codecs

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General Software Discussion / Re: Split a video in n equal parts.

« on: August 26, 2022, 12:52 AM »

This is easy with the command line tool ffmpeg
See this example https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/212518
Or to find similar variants https://www.google.c...m+ffmpeg+split+parts

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Coding Snacks / Re: Tiny batch file: zips current directory, date+time stamps, moves to parent

« on: May 09, 2022, 02:29 AM »

Handy! I have some similar "lazy version control" habits, for example to clone some single work in progress file with a timestamp suffix (via autohotkey and FARR, of course ). For when strict VC is too much but you still want to avoid the "file.ext", "file - copy.ext", "file -copy(2) final.ext" mess.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A similar function to Listary's Quick Switch function?

« on: April 07, 2022, 02:53 PM »

I noticed that there's a standalone version of QuickSwitch (in AutoHotkey) under active development at https://github.com/gepruts/QuickSwitch It support not only File Explorer but also som third party editors. I haven't tried it but thought it might interest some here.
There's a discussion thread in Everything's forum https://www.voidtool...c.php?f=2&t=9881

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General Software Discussion / Re: Permanent clipboard / textblock catalogue

« on: February 11, 2022, 12:44 PM »

Might be a bit complicated or not as easy as i imagine.

-Pareidol (February 11, 2022, 12:07 PM)

Hm, sounds like it is just like you described what you wanted in this previous post
https://www.donation....msg447950#msg447950
To use the terms from your sketch graphic: the "show in list part" goes on the left side of the | pipe character. The "send text" part goes on the right side after the string "paste ". Repeat that pattern on a new line for as many key/value pairs you have.
Why not try it for a few days (and try Lintalist too!). Then you'll see if it is a good match and if not you likely know more exactly what other features you're after.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Permanent clipboard / textblock catalogue

« on: February 11, 2022, 08:58 AM »

So you enter "abc" and it will be replaced by "paste 123"

-Pareidol (February 10, 2022, 02:47 PM)

You open FARR with the hotkey, select "abc" and press Enter and FARR then pastes "123" at the cursor.

But then you need to remember the keyword that will be replaced, am I right?

-Pareidol (February 10, 2022, 02:47 PM)

Whatever you put before the first pipe | character when you create the alias is visible in FARR so if you want both the keyword and text value visible do something like

[Select]

abc -> 123 | paste 123

But if you have a large number of such textblocks then Lintalist is more suited for the job.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tool to find where a hotkey press goes?

« on: February 04, 2022, 10:35 AM »

I could swear there was a tool that was discussed here years ago

-x16wda (February 04, 2022, 05:50 AM)

This thread perhaps https://www.donation....msg445306#msg445306

@kunkel321 For AutoHotkey scripts that you have the .ahk source for try my suggestion from the above thread: use ripgrep to near instantly search through all .ahk source files for a hotkey string e.g. ^y::

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General Software Discussion / Re: Permanent clipboard / textblock catalogue

« on: January 30, 2022, 06:45 AM »

You could kind of also use mouser's FARR for that.
1. Create an alias with keyword value pairs in this format

[Select]

keyword | paste value
abc | paste 123
golf | paste don't forget to play golf

2. Set a regex pattern for the alias. For example

[Select]

^zz$

3. Set up a special hotkey in FARR to open FARR and trigger the alias (which then shows the list of keys). Under "Text for search edit box" add "zz" (the string that will trigger the alias).

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: January 29, 2022, 02:58 PM »

The block protocol
https://www.joelonso...-better-with-blocks/
https://blockprotocol.org/
I'm curious if it will take off and how it might change note taking software. Could help with interoperability and data migration.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Permanent clipboard / textblock catalogue

« on: January 28, 2022, 09:29 AM »

Mouser's Form Letter Machine might be usable like that
https://www.donation...-form-letter-machine

But the most advanced such tool I know is Lintalist. Very customizable!
https://lintalist.github.io/

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PublicDomainVic / Re: Prepend Numbers, Serially, To Desktop Items Selected

« on: January 22, 2022, 07:34 AM »

That's a super duper niche request Seems like a very small set of people who need to incrementally prefix rename desktop icons in horizontal order often enough that starting a dedicated tool could save them time compared to doing it manually?

A tip if anyone goes for it: There are existing functions in the AutoHotkey forums for getting filepaths from selected Desktop files and also for getting the X Y position of all Desktop icons. Use both to find the horizontal order.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: MoveFileHere

« on: January 09, 2022, 07:08 AM »

I'm (very) embarrassed about the lateness of this response, but this works a treat -- thank you very much   

-tomos (January 08, 2022, 04:12 AM)

No worries, thanks for testing the fix. I updated the main GitHub release with it now.

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Coding Snacks / Re: 30SecondSilencer - add silence every 30 seconds to an mp3 file

« on: January 07, 2022, 11:17 AM »

Hi, I can't make it work on Windows 10. Could you fix it?

-kilele (December 30, 2021, 03:27 AM)

It works on Windows 10. The old ffmpeg link has expired but you can get a compatible version of ffmpeg and ffprobe in ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl-shared.zip on this release page
https://github.com/B...peg-Builds/releases/

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Pledge: Search Thing

« on: December 18, 2021, 01:08 PM »

I like customizable short search syntaxes for browsers, the more the merrier. The description has some similarity with Yubnub https://yubnub.org/ , which I had almost forgotten exists.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Location of .ini and Alias folder in Win 10 and Win 11

« on: December 05, 2021, 11:46 AM »

I still run FARR in Windows 10 so can't comment about Win 11 folder changes.

One alternative though is to use FARR in portable mode. The latest release is here https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10505.0
Better safe than sorry: make a backup of your aliases and settings before migrating to portable mode.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: November 23, 2021, 06:01 AM »

Latest insider version of Obsidian brings

-Dormouse (November 22, 2021, 04:38 PM)

Neat features!

I haven't been keeping up with the huge stream of note taking apps (and their updates) for a while. Do you know if Obsidian or any competitor by now has an easy way to treat indentation spaces as... indentation spaces. That is, to override the default Markdown rule that treats four space indentation as a code block. I know about the workaround to use   (stack overflow) but am looking for a built in solution.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Delete specific folders in a directory hierarchy tree

« on: November 23, 2021, 05:41 AM »

Easy to do with Everything https://www.voidtools.com/
For example if the start folder of the tree is "C:\tree" then you can list all its subfolders with "xyz" in the subfolder name with this search line. (The option "match path" in the menu "Search" must also be enabled.)

[Select]

"C:\tree\" xyz folder:

You can then select the subfolders in the results list and delete them, just like in File Explorer. Doing so will also delete any files within those subfolders, of course. If the subfolder name fragment you search for has spaces then quote enclose it e.g. "abc def".



This basic example can be modified for more complex searches, for example with regex pattern matching instead of a plain string.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Croc: Command-line secure file transfer tool

« on: October 12, 2021, 11:01 AM »

A similar tool: magic wormhole
Some discussion of both here https://news.ycombin...com/item?id=27262193
Croc had some vulnerabilities earlier this year but are fixed now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Powershell problems

« on: September 09, 2021, 09:56 AM »

If you have the new Windows Terminal you can also do

[Select]

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe powershell ssh

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: A public thank you to Deozaan and other mods keeping the board spam free

« on: July 26, 2021, 05:26 PM »

Cheers for Deozaan!

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General Software Discussion / Re: a program to allow use of the optional tags displayed by windows explorer

« on: July 24, 2021, 04:55 AM »

The upcoming version 1.5 of Everything will add a lot of features for dealing with file properties. Worth a look. Overview here https://www.voidtool....php?f=12&t=9788

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: MoveFileHere

« on: July 21, 2021, 02:55 AM »

I can confirm that I too had the exactly same issue, when accessing hwnd, the program would crash.

-meoow (July 18, 2021, 02:49 AM)

I seem to get error messages no matter what I do

-tomos (January 17, 2021, 06:16 PM)

I have still not been able to reproduce the crash so cannot yet explain what the root cause is. Here is a test .ahk version (requires AutoHotkey installed) with an attempted workaround. Can you test it and tell me if the error still happens?

https://github.com/n...721/MoveFileHere.ahk

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA] hotkey/shortcut tracker

« on: May 29, 2021, 04:54 AM »

AutoHotKey?

-ottenm (May 26, 2021, 11:43 AM)

A few tips for AutoHotkey. Pick one organizing system for your hotkeys and stick to it. Some variants:
1. collect all hotkeys in a single .ahk file. You can then simply open the source and look up all hotkeys there. Search for "::" to look up hotkey definitions e.g. "^k::".
2. Separate files, but all hotkeys for one application or window in one .ahk
3. Separate files, but put the hotkey keys in the filename. For example "Firefox copy URL (ctrl+K).ahk". If consistently done then you can search for a hotkey with Everything or similar file search tool.

Also
4. Use a plaintext search tool like ripgrep to instantly search the contents of a whole folder of .ahk source files.
5. Use this script to show a list of all currently running AutoHotkey files.