APPENDTABS issue

[frenky]

TC is installed in c:\totalcmd.
When APPENDTABS is called with
C:\totalcmd\saved\tabs\saved.tab parameter, all is OK, but when parameter is presented as:
%COMMANDER_PATH%\saved\tabs\saved.tab

Tabs are not appended, nothing happens in fact.

If I call:

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cmd /K echo -%COMMANDER_PATH%-

Output is:

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-C:\totalcmd-

[karlchen]

Hi, frenky.

Call it a bug or a missing feature:
If your parameter uses an environment variable, please, put the parameter behind the command in the command field. Ignore the parameter field in this case:

Command: APPENDTABS %COMMANDER_PATH%\saved\tabs\saved.tab

The parameter field will only accept and evaluate the special T.C. internal variables which you can find by pressing the <F1> key inside the parameter field. (Dialogbox: Configure - Change Buttonbar)

Kind regards,
Karl

[frenky]

Thanks for hint.
IMHO inconsistent behaviour with the rest of the TC "way", but as I can use the variable again I'm fine with this as well.

[Balderstrom]

It is odd that you can't resolve environment variables in the Parameters field even with:

Command: cmd.exe /k ECHO
Parameters: %$WINDIR% + %$COMMANDER_PATH%

This works though:

Command: cmd.exe /k ECHO
Parameters: %%WINDIR%% + %%COMMANDER_PATH%%

[karlchen]

Hello, Balderstrom.

Hiding away the environment variable in the parameter field from T.C. by doubling the ampersand may work if the command can expand the environment variable like cmd.exe obviously can. (It certainly can.)

Yet,

command: APPENDTABS
parameter: %%COMMANDER_PATH%%\saved\tabs\saved.tab

will not work, whereas

command: APPENDTABS %COMMANDER_PATH%\saved\tabs\saved.tab
parameter:

will.

Kind regards,
Karl