F4 from Lister to Editor

[matta]

Hello,
I've been using TC for a great deal of years and still catching myself trying to use F4 in Lister to edit the current file.
At some point I used AHK for that.
Would it be possible to add such a feature to the next release?

Regards,
Matta

[white]

Moderator message from: white » 2022-05-24, 12:46 UTC

Moved to Suggestions forum

[Horst.Epp]

Edit is not general usefull as it is not the same for different file formats.
I guess that will never be a native TC function.
If you mean edit while viewing source files,
it can be done using the CudaLister plugin.
This allows to change from read-only to write mode while viewing.

[Hacker]

Horst.Epp,

Edit is not general usefull as it is not the same for different file formats.

Edit (F4) is always the same (F4 always calls the same editor) regardless of file format.

I support adding F4 as a hotkey that would call the editor defined for F4 with the file currently opened in Lister (perhaps adding an option to specify line and column as command line options when the editor is called from the Lister, and an option to auto-close the Lister).

Roman

[matta]

Exactly. Lister's F4 could use the standard TC handler for that.
That was the way I was using it with AutoHotKey - just ran the N++ I had assigned for F4 in TC.
I'm not willing to use AHK on current machine however.

AHK script if anyone is curious:

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 ; Open Notepad++ on F4 in Lister window.
 #IfWinActive,ahk_class TLister
 f4::
    WinGetTitle,title
    StringLen,length,title
    StringMid,path,title,11,length-11
    WinClose
    Run,C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe %path%,
    WinActivate,ahk_class Notepad++
    return

[Horst.Epp]

Horst.Epp,

Edit is not general usefull as it is not the same for different file formats.

Edit (F4) is always the same (F4 always calls the same editor) regardless of file format.
Roman

That is the problem, as I said.
You can't use Edit for image or office files for example.
For source files this is no problem and easy without adding scripts if the viewer plugin supports editing.
This is true for CudaLister and Syn2 (only x86).

[Usher]

2matta
Actually you can use Alt+F3 for your needs, just define external editors (rater than viewers) associated with needed file extensions.

[Fla$her]

Why doesn't anyone mention AppLoader?

[Horst.Epp]

Exactly. Lister's F4 could use the standard TC handler for that.
That was the way I was using it with AutoHotKey - just ran the N++ I had assigned for F4 in TC.
I'm not willing to use AHK on current machine however.

AHK script if anyone is curious:

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 ; Open Notepad++ on F4 in Lister window.
 #IfWinActive,ahk_class TLister
 f4::
    WinGetTitle,title
    StringLen,length,title
    StringMid,path,title,11,length-11
    WinClose
    Run,C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe %path%,
    WinActivate,ahk_class Notepad++
    return

Your script doesn't work, it returns wrong path to the editor.
Here my working version which uses Akelpad, but this doesn't matter.

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 ; Open AkelPad on F4 in Lister window.
 #IfWinActive,ahk_class TLister
 f4::
    WinGetTitle,title
    left := InStr(title, "[") + 1
    right := InStr(title, "]") - left
    StringMid, path, title, left, right
    WinClose
    Run,C:\Tools\AkelPad\AkelPad.exe %path%,
    WinActivate,ahk_class Akelpad
    return

[Hacker]

Horst.Epp,

That is the problem, as I said.

No, that is no problem for the people requesting this functionality.

Roman

[matta]

Your script doesn't work, it returns wrong path to the editor.

Yes. Indeed, apparently the window title has changed since then. Was working at the time I was using it Thanks for the update.

[matta]

2matta
Actually you can use Alt+F3 for your needs, just define external editors (rater than viewers) associated with needed file extensions.

Not the case. I want to use Lister in the first place (it is lite) and then edit if needed.

[matta]

Why doesn't anyone mention AppLoader?

Looks promising, thanks!

[petermad]

Support++ It is fine with me that i can only launch the configured editor for F4 - that's what I would nedd 99% of the time.

[nsp]

Support++ It is fine with me that i can only launch the configured editor for F4 - that's what I would nedd 99% of the time.

Support++ launching editor from viewer using F4 hotkey and adding menu entries where you can edit (F4) and even launch using internal association...