Total Commander

Sometimes a copy&paste a filename from the address bar in internet explorer into the command line of total commander.

For example:
cd file:///C:/temp/somefile.html

Unfortunately, this doesn't work directly. I have to remove "file:///" by hand. Please make this work like users expect.

Hi, compie.

Please make this work like users expect.

So you are users actually. Because I do not expect a syntactically incorrect commandline to yield more than a meaningful error message.

As a matter of fact, in the commandline

cd file:///C:/temp/somefile.html

you expect TotalCommander to correct 2 syntactical mistakes for you:
(1) "cd" means "change directory", not "jump to a file"
(2) The prefix "file:///" is only used inside browser to indicate that you want to open a locally stored file, not a URL.

I assume you expect this commandline, entered on the TotalCommander commandline, to have the same effect as this one:

cd C:\temp\somfile.html

T.C will change to C:\temp and mark the file "somefile.html".

Note that this commandline will not work if entered at the cmd.exe command prompt at all.

Regards,
Karl

compie wrote:Sometimes a copy&paste a filename from the address bar in internet explorer into the command line of total commander.

For example:
cd file:///C:/temp/somefile.html

Unfortunately, this doesn't work directly. I have to remove "file:///" by hand. Please make this work like users expect.

Add the following to your registry (adapt "c:\\Util\\totalcmd\" to your installation path!):

OpenFileInTC.reg wrote:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open in Total Commander]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open in Total Commander\command]
@="c:\\Util\\totalcmd\\totalcmd.exe /O /T /R="%1""

This way you can simply execute (no need for "cd")

TC: command line wrote: file:///C:/temp/somefile.html

to open the folder into TC's right panel, and place the cursor to the given file.

HTH,
Holger

Edit: Sorry my mistake, this works only with non associated files ...