how do i.. with an alias?

[lanux128]

this should be easy for regex pros.. i have this alias here to eject removable drives and i want the semi-colon to be added automatically after the drive letter. e.g. if i type "eject e" --> "eject e:"; "eject e f" --> "eject e: f:" (minus quotes).. can someone give me a hand..

RegEx Pattern: ^eject (.*)

EjectCD $$1 | "C:\Program Files\SysTools\EJECT.EXE" $$1

another type of alias that i'm looking for is to link a path with the keyword, say "games" then whenever i type "games <abc>", Farr will be searching <abc> in the path only.. something like the "cpanel" that is available right now..

[jgpaiva]

For the first one...

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RegEx Pattern: ^eject (.*):?

EjectCD $$1 | "C:\Program Files\SysTools\EJECT.EXE" $$1:

(notice the ':' after '$$1')

As for the second part, see 'Keyword Modifiers' in the advanced section of the help file.

[lanux128]

jgpaiva, sorry it doesn't seem to work.. see the screenshots..

Defining the alias


and the result..


as for the 2nd request, thanks for pointing in the correct direction..

[mouser]

actually jgpaiva's solution is basically correct -- you just need to update your alias result to SHOW YOU the : as well:

i.e. change
ejectCD $$1 | "C:\Program Files\SysTools\EJECT.EXE" $$1:

to
ejectCD $$1: | "C:\Program Files\SysTools\EJECT.EXE" $$1:


keep in mind this will not work on your example of "eject e f" since it will only add one : at the end of the f
but you could solve this by making another ejectcd alias which matches 2 drive letters and adds a : to both, but that would require a separate regular expression alias.

in this case, a better thing might be to launch a kind of batch file or script to invoke and do the replacement after the launch by this script. i urge people to use this kind of approach.

[lanux128]

keep in mind this will not work on your example of "eject e f" since it will only add one : at the end of the f
but you could solve this by making another ejectcd alias which matches 2 drive letters and adds a : to both, but that would require a separate regular expression alias.

-mouser (April 27, 2007, 05:34 AM)

thanks for the explanation, mouser.. so, how do i go about the alias that matches two drive letters?

[jgpaiva]

This one should work..

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RegEx Pattern: ^eject (.):? (.):?

EjectCD $$1: $$2: | "C:\Program Files\SysTools\EJECT.EXE" $$1: $$2:

(the ':?' is just so that you can still optionally put the ':' there)

[edit] corrected error with the pattern [/edit]

[lanux128]

thanks a lot, jgpaiva! now i can really work better with my removable drives