Feature: user definable commands on lister context menu
Posted: 2013-05-12, 10:37 UTC
[Update 2014]: Please consider the poll as a vote for a more generic solution of user defined commands on the lister context menu. The following is an example of how it could be used.
EG. Feature: search text in browser from lister context menu
Here is something I would like to have a context menu option in lister window to search the selected text with your default OS browser.
More generally it could be an option "send selection to XX" where the user could define XX as a browser or another program that can takes command line token for the selected text. In other words you:
Config Setup:
In TC lister a new config item where I define a config for program to be launched
"Google search"="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%s"
"IMDB search"="http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s"
[OR SOME EQUIVALENT METHOD OF GETTING CONTEXT MENU ITEMS INSERTED]
Usage:
1. select text in TC lister window
2. Right click choose either "send to Google Search" or "send to IMDB search" from context menu
Here is a long example of what made me think about using this.
I have been working on fixing some problems with a PC, so I have TC + " NT Events" FS plugin open on every TC startup. I view the event log error message then have to cut and paste into a browser to do research on what the error is about which is usually start with a Microsoft KB or Google search. It would be more elegant to have a "send to" in the lister.
Example2:
Lister to view torrent file select hash string for a google search.
Does anyone know of a text editor that has a similar "send selection to user-application" feature?
EG. Feature: search text in browser from lister context menu
Here is something I would like to have a context menu option in lister window to search the selected text with your default OS browser.
More generally it could be an option "send selection to XX" where the user could define XX as a browser or another program that can takes command line token for the selected text. In other words you:
Config Setup:
In TC lister a new config item where I define a config for program to be launched
"Google search"="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%s"
"IMDB search"="http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s"
[OR SOME EQUIVALENT METHOD OF GETTING CONTEXT MENU ITEMS INSERTED]
Usage:
1. select text in TC lister window
2. Right click choose either "send to Google Search" or "send to IMDB search" from context menu
Here is a long example of what made me think about using this.
I have been working on fixing some problems with a PC, so I have TC + " NT Events" FS plugin open on every TC startup. I view the event log error message then have to cut and paste into a browser to do research on what the error is about which is usually start with a Microsoft KB or Google search. It would be more elegant to have a "send to" in the lister.
Example2:
Lister to view torrent file select hash string for a google search.
Does anyone know of a text editor that has a similar "send selection to user-application" feature?