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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FARR Plugin Idea Holy Grail - DQSD (400 searches)

« Last post by nitrix-ud on May 06, 2008, 03:43 AM »

Since I'm back to coding on FARR as we speak, I stand ready to help add any functionality to FARR that is needed.  One thing that might be desired is to add an html-rendering view mode for the FARR window as an alternative to the richview memo view mode -- might be useful for this project and others.

html-rendering view mode is a must
showfile is good but showhtml is even better

i already imagine some nice aliases, for example a google image search

showhtml http://images.google.com/images?as_q=$$c&hl=en&output=images&svnum=100&btnG=Google+Search
it would show the images right into FARR !

or one could use http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ as a note manager right into FARR

one could use it as a start page like opera quick dial...

applications are endless...

while you are at it mouser, please fix a small pb concerning showfile and showmemo
if you have a showfile or showmemo command as a second result of an alias (or third, fourth, etc.)
the ESC does not select the search box... so you cannot close FARR by using ESC twice, you have to use the mouse ! to reselect the search box...
very annoying

cheers, nitrix

PS: for the showhtml command, i think that handling links should be closely considered...
my opinion is that new windows should open in the default browser while regular links should open in FARR
and shift+click should force the opening of the page inside the default browser...

one last suggestion there should be a switch when invoking a showhtml command to tell FARR if it should close on click or not
showhtml ....htmlfile.... \CLOSEONOPENINGNEWWINDOW

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Folder Nav Bug

« Last post by nitrix-ud on May 05, 2008, 08:05 AM »

great ! 

i hope it will be packed with a few new features

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Find And Run Robot / how to change the sorting ?

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 29, 2008, 10:33 AM »

hi,

here is the result for the search "span" using the following dosearch command :

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Snippets $$1 | dosearch +folder_snippets +open_snippets -alias -.ini . +. ahk $$1

obviously i would prefer the second result "span.ahk" to be first

is it possible to do it by changing some of the heuristics ?
i have the impression that the leftmost match bonus is for each words...
maybe we could have a new heuristic : leftmost of the leftmost word ??

cheers, nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / Re: feature idea : dosearch option to sort result by name not score

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 26, 2008, 02:35 AM »

great 
hope you manage to do it without too much trouble

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Find And Run Robot / feature idea : dosearch option to sort result by name not score

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 24, 2008, 05:44 PM »

it would be great to be able to specify sorting in a dosearch command

my code snippet alias

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Snippets $$1 | dosearch +folder_snippets +open_snippets -alias -.ini +. $$1

i'd like to do

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Snippets $$1 | dosearch +folder_snippets +open_snippets -alias -.ini +. $$1 /SORTASC

it would sort snippets by name...

or say you have a huge folder full of music, each folder being an album

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Music album search $$1 | dosearch -alias +folder_music +open_winamp +\ $$1 /SORTASC

you could still filter the result but the results would be sorted by name and not by score like it always does...

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Find And Run Robot / feature idea : "dynamic aliases"

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 24, 2008, 05:37 PM »

hi mouser,

i can't let go this idea... (already suggested a few times)

i really really miss the possibility to create dynamic alias...

for instance, you work on a particular project, that project has folder shortcuts, internet favorites, code snippets, etc.
one cannot have aliases that will work on that particular project dynamically... one cannot create a dosearch alias with a changing folder search...

dosearch +searchfolder
you cannot change the path of +searchfolder... dynamically without going into FARR's options
even if you change the FindAndRunRobot.ini file, it does not work right away, it works after restarting FARR

i personnaly use FARR as a top layer in my workflow, i work on more that 150 projects
i switch from one to another using FARR with just a few keystrokes (by indexing autohotkey files, each one of them corresponding to a particular project, you run one, the current project is set)

when switching from one project to another (within 1 or 2 seconds <= i insist), i'd like to have some alias switching too (within that same 1 second !)

i guess there are many ways to do it
maybe it should be done through command-line ?

FindAndRunRobot.exe -changealias aliasname=dosearch c:\_snippets\projectname\ +open_snippets -alias -.ini +. $$2
FindAndRunRobot.exe -changesearchfolder folderkeyword=c:\newpath (not sure about this one, since keyword are optionnal, and you can have more than one...)

-changealias would change the alias AND "reload" it

then we can imagine -addalias, -deletealias

that would be so great, so many uses... 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request:hotkey for calling alias settings tab

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 11, 2008, 05:53 PM »

first thing i do when installing FARR :
create an alias :
 
name
o

regex
^o$

result
Options | restartsearch gooptions

not ideal but saves a few clicks

Cheers

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Separators in alias groups

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 07, 2008, 03:29 AM »

good suggestion already suggested a while ago...

here is what i do
__________________ | C:\_Garbha\Program Files\FarrScripts\DoNothing.ahk /STAYOPEN /ICON=icons\noicon.ico
DoNothing.ahk script does nothing
noicon.ico does not exist so FARR shows nothing...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Middle click to Launch and Stay Open

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 05, 2008, 02:37 AM »

Hi,

it would be nice if the middle mouse button (wheel) could be used to launch an entry while staying open, like it's in browsers.

that's a good idea

and like a already suggested, shift + enter (like enqueue in multimedia player...) could also launch and stay open

and shift+click like browsers ...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Yet another focus-related feature

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 03, 2008, 03:04 AM »

i mainly use Avant Browser which sometimes gets the focus (i have to say most of the time) but sometimes not

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Remove entry numbers

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 03, 2008, 03:03 AM »

i would turn the option off too, the reason is I always try to get the result i want first

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Find And Run Robot / Re: What New Major Feature is Most Important for you in Find and Run Robot?

« Last post by nitrix-ud on April 03, 2008, 03:02 AM »

yes i agree, indexing IS a good idea but only if optionnal when used in a dosearch command
FARR does work great without it... it's always up to date...

it could also be done with an better integration of locate32 (better that using a plugin)

just my 0.02 euros

cheers, Nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / Re: support for "alpha fade out" view

« Last post by nitrix-ud on March 30, 2008, 10:15 AM »

+1

fade out
AND
play sound on launch

like Dash command

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR development in hibernation

« Last post by nitrix-ud on March 25, 2008, 03:40 PM »

i can't wait mouser ! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default Hotkey Not Working - Vista on Dell XPS Notebook

« Last post by nitrix-ud on March 09, 2008, 12:42 PM »

@yksyks

i'm glad you solved your pb 

just so you know, the script i posted disable the capslock function too

cheers

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default Hotkey Not Working - Vista on Dell XPS Notebook

« Last post by nitrix-ud on March 09, 2008, 06:37 AM »

@yksyks

you could use autohotkey

this should do (this sends alt+space, so you need the alt+space hotkey activated in FARR):

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CapsLock::
Send !{Space}
return

attached is a compiled version in case you don't want to install autohotkey

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Find And Run Robot / Re: sort matches strictly based on date created criteria?

« Last post by nitrix-ud on February 21, 2008, 02:55 AM »

excellent idea !

@mouser, if one day you add this special command, i think i would be great to be able to sort by accessed / modified date also, not just created

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin

« Last post by nitrix-ud on February 11, 2008, 02:15 AM »

@armando

nitrix-ud : were you able to have the google translate plugin working?

i just tried now and it seems to work as expected !

PS: je me suis un temps demandé si cela avait a voir avec le fait que nous soyons francais ! (je crois que tu l'es )
mais mon windows xp est un windows anglais...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin

« Last post by nitrix-ud on February 03, 2008, 09:01 AM »

@czechboy

here is the code source of the google page

note: i tried the latest version with no luck

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Plugin Idea Again: Generic web page retrieve with regex show

« Last post by nitrix-ud on February 02, 2008, 01:50 PM »

Very good idea ! 

concerning webpages, i'm still waiting for the showmemo command to be able to display webpages, that would be great too 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin

« Last post by nitrix-ud on February 02, 2008, 01:33 PM »

looks really nice but does not work on my computer... 
it works sometimes... very rarely... strange

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Find And Run Robot / FARR review

« Last post by nitrix-ud on January 31, 2008, 02:01 PM »

an article named : The Quicksilver-for-windows Showdown

http://lifehacker.co...for+windows-showdown

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Find And Run Robot / [bug report] multiple launch

« Last post by nitrix-ud on January 31, 2008, 01:58 PM »

Hi mouser,

i noticed that if you keep enter pressed FARR launches multiple results... (my repeat rate is maximum)
up to 5 or 6 when i launch an url !!

Cheers, Nitrix

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: new FARR Plugin : Delicious - built on the Javascript SDK : FScript

« Last post by nitrix-ud on January 23, 2008, 02:05 AM »

@ecaradec

great job ! 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: new FARR Plugin : Delicious - built on the Javascript SDK : FScript

« Last post by nitrix-ud on January 21, 2008, 10:27 AM »

@ecaradec

i wonder if you could change the aliases

for exemple the regex for delicious post is dp(.*)
which triggers whenever i write dp .... in the search box

wouldn't be better to use :
^dp (.*)

starts with dp then a space... ?

unfortunately it is read-only 

Keep up the good work, this plug-in rocks !