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Author Topic: Quick plugin question  (Read 8582 times)

s.newave

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Quick plugin question
« on: May 12, 2008, 10:37 PM »
Im really loving the Locate plugin which i have setup to activate by simply typing "l <search term>". What im wondering is how i can create another command such as "ld" that would act as if i had typed "l -ld" to search only for dirs. This way if i wanted to search for files i would type "l <file search>" and would type "ld <folder search>" if looking for a dir. Is there a way to do this without duplicating the plugin and renaming it which seems a bit ugly  :tellme:

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2008, 11:04 PM »
check this post by Armando. it's quite similar to what you want.

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2008, 11:13 PM »
What you want to do is pretty easy using the special alias command called "dosearch"

basically, you can create a new alias with a regex pattern like:
ld (.*)

and for results put
dosearch l -ld $$1

that basically says that whenever you type "ld SOMETHING" it will be treated as if you had typed "l -ld SOMETHING"

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2008, 11:45 PM »
What you want to do is pretty easy using the special alias command called "dosearch"

basically, you can create a new alias with a regex pattern like:
ld (.*)

and for results put
dosearch l -ld $$1

that basically says that whenever you type "ld SOMETHING" it will be treated as if you had typed "l -ld SOMETHING"

good call, mouser! :Thmbsup:i keep forgetting about the dosearch/restartsearch command.

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 12:11 AM »
Wow thanks for the quick reponse!

Told you it was a quick question  :D

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2008, 03:22 PM »
On a related note i am having trouble getting another alias to work. I am trying to create an alias to emulate typing C:\ and then being able to filter results as i continue to type. For example my alias name is  "Browse" with the result being "Browse C Drive | dosearch C:\".

My aim is to be able to start typing Brow.. then hit <tab> and than it should show all folders in my C: drive at which point i could start typing Progr... and it would filter to Program Files and i could hit enter to open that folder. However after i hit tab to autocomplete the alias and it returns all the folders but when i continue typing to filter the results it doesnt work.

Any ideas?

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2008, 04:42 PM »
you need to use a regular expression just as the ld example above, so the regular expression would be
Browse (.*)
and the result would be
Browse C Drive | dosearch C:\ $$1

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2008, 05:07 PM »
Thx i knew i was 8) close

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Re: Quick plugin question
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2008, 07:02 PM »
loc -ld -Rn -p

These parameters will let you successfully browse any drive you want, jst add the drive as in c:\. I just created special alias for this and works beautifully, you can even browse folders inside farr by using arrow keys
« Last Edit: May 18, 2008, 07:23 PM by kartal »