New poll: Who wants list of internal commands to be sorted?

Post by *white » 2003-11-23, 20:47 UTC

This poll is actually a few days old. I did not realize before that I was allowed to announce the poll in this forum (as stated in the Total Commander Forum Index).

[Edited]By sorted I mean sorted alphabetically[/Edited]

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-11-24, 13:40 UTC

But sorted by what? Currently it's sorted by menus in which the commands appear, and the commands without menus appear at the end.

Boofo · Post by *Boofo » 2003-11-24, 13:47 UTC

The only place it would be nice to have them sorted would be alphabetically in the change button bar drop down menu. It would be easier to find them that way.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2003-11-24, 14:06 UTC

Boofo wrote:The only place it would be nice to have them sorted would be alphabetically in the change button bar drop down menu. It would be easier to find them that way.

I agree.

Raymond · Post by *Raymond » 2003-11-24, 14:25 UTC

I don't think it's a big deal. The current TOTALCMD.INC is function grouped and better for reading or searching. It's very easy to sort it alphabetically by hand.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2003-11-24, 14:47 UTC

Raymond wrote:I don't think it's a big deal. The current TOTALCMD.INC is function grouped and better for reading or searching. It's very easy to sort it alphabetically by hand.

Yes but when you are editing the button bar, all the internal commands appear unsorted in the combobox. You have to search in the list to find the command you want, and no, typing the first letters of the command does not help much because most of the time, you don't remember the exact name of the command you wish to use.

Raymond · Post by *Raymond » 2003-11-24, 15:05 UTC

@wanderer

You can sort the TOTALCMD.INC content alphabetically by a text editor. Then put it in Totalcmd's folder. After that when clicking the drop_down menu, all internal commanders will appear alphabetically. Does this help a little?

Post by *white » 2003-11-24, 15:48 UTC

Boofo wrote:The only place it would be nice to have them sorted would be alphabetically in the change button bar drop down menu.

That's exactly what I had in mind. Thank you Boofo for making it more clear.

Raymond wrote:You can sort the TOTALCMD.INC content alphabetically by a text editor.

This point is already discussed in the thread of the poll.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2003-11-25, 08:56 UTC

Raymond wrote:@wanderer

You can sort the TOTALCMD.INC content alphabetically by a text editor. Then put it in Totalcmd's folder. After that when clicking the drop_down menu, all internal commanders will appear alphabetically. Does this help a little?

No, unfortunately not!

I tried it just before posting and the combo box in the button bar setup still had them unsorted! Is there a place that they do appear sorted?

Boofo · Post by *Boofo » 2003-11-25, 09:13 UTC

wanderer wrote:
Raymond wrote:@wanderer

You can sort the TOTALCMD.INC content alphabetically by a text editor. Then put it in Totalcmd's folder. After that when clicking the drop_down menu, all internal commanders will appear alphabetically. Does this help a little?
No, unfortunately not! I tried it just before posting and the combo box in the button bar setup still had them unsorted! Is there a place that they do appear sorted?

Mine are sorted alphabetically in the drop down in the button bar configuartion. I alphabetized the totalcmd.inc and it works fine.

Raymond · Post by *Raymond » 2003-11-25, 09:31 UTC

@wanderer

Are you sure you've put the sorted TOTALCMD.INC into Totalcmd folder and overwrited the original one? If so, it should works.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2003-11-25, 10:12 UTC

Raymond wrote:@wanderer

Are you sure you've put the sorted TOTALCMD.INC into Totalcmd folder and overwrited the original one? If so, it should works.

Yes, i'm quite sure. That was not the problem. The problem was that i executed TCmd from a different dir (i have a local and a network installation)

Thanks for the tip.