FARR V2 core alias tables

[jgpaiva]

Here's a table with a bunch of useful commands in farr!

In these tables, bold items are farr keywords or phrases. Try them!

Menus:

command	description
helpfarr	opens a menu with several help items: <open help file> (gohelp), <open options> (gooptions), <configure toolbar> (gotoolbar), <visit website> (gowebsite) and <update farr> (goupdate)
listfarr	shows a menu with all the built in listings: <list available aliases> (agroups), <list launch story> (historyl), <list past search history> (historys) and <list installed plugins> (aplugins)

Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Encyclopedias aliases:

command	description	example
define	Find definitions/synonyms for words through various dictionaries and thesaurus	define pachydermatous
lookup	Find information about a query, through encyclopedias, A9, reference.com, answers.com, etc.	lookup pachydermatous

News:

command	description	example
news	search for news about something in google, yahoo or bbc	news global warming

Search for specific contents:

command	description	example
search	make a general web search using your favourite search engine: google, yahoo, ask.com, etc...	search donation coder
blog	search for blog posts about something, in Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search	blog software
news	search for news about something in several news sites	news global warming
imdb	search for movies on internet movie database	imdb the godfather
img	search for images several image sites, like google image search, yahoo image search, flickr, NASA, ask.com, etc	img landscape
maps	search for locations in google maps	maps lisbon,Portugal
music	search for artists, albums or songs at AMG, discogs, etc...	music norah jones
software	search for software (you found on donationcoder ) on tucows,snapfiles or betanews	software find and run robot
tor or torrent	search several torrent sites, like torrentz.com, mininova, torrentSpy or pirateBay	tor ubuntu or torrent suze linux
videos	search for videos on youtube or imdb	videos football
wiki	search for wikipedia information on wikipedia search, wikiseek, Clusty Wikipedia seach or futef wikipedia search	wiki donationcoder

Want to go online shopping?
Check out these aliases:

command	description	example
amazon	search for items to shop at amazon.com, amazon.de, amazon.co.uk, or amazon.fr	amazon monty python and the holy grail
ebay	search for items to shop at ebay.com, ebay.de, ebay.co.uk, or ebay.fr	ebay flying carpet
bn	search for items to shop at barnes and noble	bn harry potter
newegg	search for items to shop at newegg	newegg samsung monitor
tigerdirect	search for items to shop at tiger direct	tigerdirect maxtor

Here's 2 useful internet aliases:

command	description	example
dc	make a search at DonationCoder forums or check out the latest unread posts	dc find and run or dc
yn	use the powerful yubnub to make any websearch that FARR might miss	yn simpsons or yn random 100 or yn man random

And here's 2 miscelaneous aliases:

command	description	example
fileinfo	Get information about a specific file extention	fileinfo XML
paste	paste the date, the time, or both to the active window	paste

Also, there's a very simple note manager:

command	description	example
addnote	create a new note	addnote hello, this is a note!!
viewnotes	open the notes file	viewnotes

These are very useful aliases, that'll allow you to browse the web or send e-mails:

command	description	example
email	Send a simple e-mail with a specific subject	email [email protected] i love farr!!!
email	Send a simple e-mail with a specific subject, just by typing the e-mail	[email protected] i love farr!!!
email3	check the temporary spam email at bugmenot or at mailinator	email3 newyortimes.com or email3 [email protected]
www, http://, ftp:// or https://	open websites only by typing in the address!	http://donationcoder.com, https://paypal.com, ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt or www.google.com

If you'd like to add or correct something, please make a post below!!

For non-default aliases, see:
File management
Window Management
Finance aliases
NirCMD alias (shutdown,standby,lockpc,mute sound,etc)

[mouser]

wonderful 

[Grorgy]

Great list, this is the sort of thing i was missing i think, so much in FARR that my poor brain suffers under the weight of it    I saw mention of one that zips a file? and I cant find it? a pointer to the right thread would be appreciated 

[jgpaiva]

Here you go, Grorgy!

Glad you like this table

[Grorgy]

Great, thank you  

[lanux128]

great work, jgpaiva! mouser, sticky this..

[Nxqd3051990]

I love this , thank you so much 

[ed_cardinal]

FYI, BugMeNot is no longer in the "free nospam email" business... but the mailinator alias works great!

[risingeil]

Has the addnote(s) and viewnote(s) aliases been removed?  Nothing comes up.
It would be great if the shopping aliases are editable, since not everyone lives in the U.S.
I love the igo alias, so handy, but it would be even better if it would move the window to the left margin of the screen by it self on top of auto-expand the window (move the FARR window back to where it was when you clear the search box).

Just some possible suggestions.

[mouser]

addnote and viewnote have been replaced by a much nicer plugin called hamnotes: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18850.0

as for editing the built-in aliases -- it's a complicated thing, because they are non-editable in order to keep them from being overwritten when updating.
if you want to edit, one solution is to COPY the alias file from the Alias Groups/Installed directory to the MyCustom directory, and then UNCHECK the one in the Installed directory so that only your version is used; then you can edit your version.

[Wernight]

The help document a calc function (see https://www.donation...drun/help/index.html) which I'm looking for. It seems that this feature has been removed without replacement. Is that correct? I really love to have a simple calculator available within 1 sec (real-time constraint).

The FBSL posts about such a script date from 2006.

PS: I'm decompressing it, not using the installer.

[mouser]

The built-in calc function got replaced by a plugin called fcalc, which still works well:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8769.0

And then there is another calculator plugin which may be a little bit more tricky to set up but has some advanced features (like letting you create your own functions in javascript), and that's the one in czb's plugin pack: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=17153.0

[wjamoe]

For those like me, who don't remember all core aliases containing websearches
I made a single alias containing all the web searches.

For a complete list of all the available searches type @ followed by space followed by one or more searchwords e.g.
@ donationcoder
use PgDn to scroll beyond the visible list.

To group some of the searches I added categories to the searches.
@web, @ref, @image, @movie, @music, @shop, @software, @torr

If you want to limit the list of web sites in the result window of farr type something like e.g. only image searched
@image donationcoder
or
@img donationcoder
Please note that the list of wesites appears after pressing space. because of: ( ^(|[a-z]) (.*) )

For all google related websearches type
@ggl  donationcoder farr yhm

For searching @movie youtube you can type. Everything after the first space is considered to be the search string
@mvyt walk somebody
or
@ytu walk somebody

Copy the text below and  (right click) import formatted Alias/Group in myaliases.alias

Enjoy!

NB I tested most entries, but some search sites will evolve/change and the URL search string for that site stops working,
please upload your updated version of alias when you have found an error, thanks

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[mouser]

thanks for sharing wjamoe