hotkey with execute? (as if Enter was pressed)

[ottenm]

I have a couple of FARR hotkeys that I wish would go ahead and execute, rather than wait for me to press Enter.

Is there anything I'm overlooking?  Tips?

Thanks-

[jgpaiva]

I think that currently there's no way to do that..

[mouser]

No way to do that currently.  You mean just use FARR as a hotkey program to execute something without even needing to become visible, right?  It could be easily added though it seems like something best left to a proper hotkey utility.

[TucknDar]

Sounds AHK-ish. There are also tons of little cool hotkey-applications.


Or did I misunderstand something?

[ottenm]

I'd vote for including it Mouser.  Seems like 99% of it's already there..... Not sure I need anything else from a hotkey utility.  I don't have or know one, although I see a lot of AutoHotKey refs.  I've recently invested a colossal amount of time surfing, learning, and evaluating a launcher, an explorer replacement, and a notepad replacement.  I ended up with FARR, Free Commander, and Notepad2.  But I've gotten a little burnt on surfing tools and help text.  Just my .02.

[yksyks]

I vote against including it. It would just make FARR a bit more complicated and discourage some users. Not everyone is a keyboard maniac (like me). FARR can coexist with dedicated hotkey utilities like Hotkeyz or HotkeyP that are very easy to use and are for free.

[ottenm]

Just to clarify: Having now installed and used AHK, all I intended by my vote "in favor" was looking for something to put at the end of the "Text for search edit box" that tells FARR to go ahead an deploy/run it, to not wait for more typing or an Enter key (maybe /n?).