Author Topic: alias help needed (Read 9705 times)

putnum · « **on:** April 19, 2010, 08:10 AM »

Hey guys I have a alias created that contains several items. How can I access the items directly instead of typing the group name first? (I also want them in a group)

ex: alias name "web" contains blah, blah2, blah3 etc

Thanks,
Adam

mouser · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2010, 11:05 AM »

this is actually a bit of an interesting question.
do you mean that you want the items in the group to be always matched against what you type?

putnum · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2010, 11:58 AM »

I think so. Here is a better example. I have a alias file named work.alias and in the alias I have a group called adminTools. In that group I have several entries. One say being ping.

I am wanting to be able to type ping and get that but right now I have to type the group name "adminTools" than ping.

Any thoughts?

mouser · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2010, 12:06 PM »

normally the process is to name the group what you want to type to activate it.. it's ok if alias groups have the same "name" -- which i can see is a bit confusing.

either way, the best solution now would be to name the group "admin" and type "admin" to see all the entries in that group, or "admin ping" to filter to just ping.

so in general the way to do it in farr if you want to be able to just type ping, is to create an alias named ping.

BUT

i recall that we had this discussion at one point, and i may have already added a way to do what you want, i just cant remember.. if not, i can add something somewhere that can be used to tell farr that the contents of certain alias should be checked against as if each one was an individual alias no matter what user types.

putnum · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2010, 12:16 PM »

Mouser yes that would be great. I would like to be able to type the group name and see everything in the group as well each individual item if I wanted.

mouser · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2010, 08:39 PM »

added (actually it already existed; now improved and documented). will be in next update.

putnum · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2010, 10:07 AM »

sweet! You say it was already there. How do you do it?

mouser · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2010, 10:12 AM »

grab the new beta from https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe

then just create an alias and give it an alias name of *
(OR new: just set the regex pattern to *)

then every search will be matched against the contents of that alias.

putnum · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2010, 12:22 PM »

mouse thanks for this. I think i am doing something wrong. I create a alias named adminTools and I put two entries in there and put *in the regex pattern. I need to also be able to use $$c for each item in the alias how can I do that?

putnum · « **Reply #9 on:** April 26, 2010, 01:44 PM »

I got it working now.

Awesome work thanks Mouser!

mouser · « **Reply #10 on:** April 26, 2010, 01:46 PM »

you got the $$c to work too?

putnum · « **Reply #11 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:31 PM »

well not exactly lol How would you do it?

mouser · « **Reply #12 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:34 PM »

i think $$c will work in the alias, im just not sure if it will confuse the filtering in this special alias case.

putnum · « **Reply #13 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:47 PM »

yea here is what i have in my adminTools alias

ping $$c | showmemo Output of Ping:;;;appcapappendmemo c:\windows\system32\ping.exe $$c
tracert $$c | showmemo Output of Trace Route:;;;appcapappendmemo c:\windows\system32\tracert.exe $$c

I have * in the regex pattern....

mouser · « **Reply #14 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:52 PM »

yeah i think the only problem here is that farr may try to replace the $$c and THEN match what you type against the captions (before the |), so that if you type anything matching what is on your clipboard, those 2 results will show up.

putnum · « **Reply #15 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:11 PM »

yea exactly which is not that bad just gotta get used to it....

mouser · « **Reply #16 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:11 PM »

i've fixed it; next update will not match against the clipboard part.

mouser · « **Reply #17 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:27 PM »

new beta version uploaded; same url as previous.

putnum · « **Reply #18 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:40 PM »

sweet!!!

putnum · « **Reply #19 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:46 PM »

ok mine is still reading the clipboard data. Do i need to do some different?

mouser · « **Reply #20 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:52 PM »

ok mine is still reading the clipboard data.

not sure what you mean - it should still READ the clipboard data and use it appropriately -- it just should filter them appropriately now and not show results in your * alias just because you type something that happens to be on the clipboard.

putnum · « **Reply #21 on:** April 26, 2010, 04:40 PM »

ok that works (reading the clipboard data) but what if i wanted to type something instead of using the clipboard data? I cannot seem to get that to work right. Do i need to use a combination of $$c and $$1?

mouser · « **Reply #22 on:** April 26, 2010, 04:45 PM »

you cannot type something in to replace with this * alias type.
you can only type something in when you use a full normal regular expression pattern that tells farr how to find the $$1 argument.

putnum · « **Reply #23 on:** April 26, 2010, 05:50 PM »

ok not a problem that will do thanks so much for your help! I hope to donate soon