Search Filters - custom context menu option

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MMH
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Search Filters - custom context menu option

Post by MMH »

How hard would it be to add a custom context menu option or options for a "search filter".

In my imagined use case I'd like to be able to right click on an empty pane after a search returns zero results and there would be an option to create a new file in a specific folder, like that windows -right click - new file context menu thing.

The implementation of that new file thing would just be executing a predefined program from a string passing the search box contents as a parameter.

Is such a feature possible to implement with the new plugins in the beta?
therube
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Re: Search Filters - custom context menu option

Post by therube »

I did something like that (in Everything 1.5) by assigning a hotkey to my text editor... but I was only dealing with a specific directory where I wanted the newly created files to be...

But I suppose something could be done, more generally...
You'd have to set focus to the ... where? That's a good question. Where should focus be, if there were no results returned?
void
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Re: Search Filters - custom context menu option

Post by void »

I will consider custom context menu items to search Everything.

Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, please try adding a custom context menu item to your registry.

please try Custom Open Commands (add custom context menu items in Everything only)
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