Rainer Scheppelmann
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:55:15 -0700
Hans, are you in wishlist mode again :) > 2. One feature that I keep wishing for again and again is the ability > to pipe the standard output (and/or the error output) of a command > into the Viewer, maybe with a meta command such as >! . Alt-F4 ought
In the meantime, put yourself a "v.cmd" into the search path,
like this
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@rem View long command output, e.g. "v rar -?"
@rem
echo %*>%temp%\fcw-view.tmp
%*>>%temp%\fcw-view.tmp 2>&1
start fcw /v %temp%\fcw-view.tmp
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and when you issue "v rar -?" you'll get an additional FC/W
viewer window with standard and error output and that starts
like this
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rar -?
RAR 3.71 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal 20 Sep
2007
Registered to [me]
Usage: rar <command> -<switch 1> -<switch N> <archive>
<files...>
<@listfiles...> <path_to_extract\>
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Do the same with an "e.cmd" wherein you replace "fcw /v" with
"fcw /e" and "fcw-view.tmp" with "fcw-edit.tmp", thus you can
edit or copy the output.
> 6. Lastly, a quirk that keeps bugging me: when you do Search, then
> View, you get the found text highlighted, but when you do Alt-F4 to
> change into the Editor (for example because you want to copy the lines
You can also [F4] Edit from the search results and arrive at the
first match highlighted. Even after [F3]-ing and backing out
there with [Esc].
Your other wishes I can second, with varying urgency, and this
one is nice :)
> and I wish I could tell it to come out and continue
> searching where the sun shines.
On 6 Jun 2008 at 3:49, Hans Salvisberg
<fc@silk.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Brian Havard wrote:
> > This was a significant code change so it's quite likely I've broken
> > something along the way.
>
> You seem to be in development mode again, so I'll dare to put this to
> your consideration:
>
> 1. Unicode support is really badly needed. This means using the wide
> APIs (and finally get rid of the problems with weird filename
> characters) and supporting UTF-8 and UTF-16 (LE/BE), all with and
> without BOM, in Search, Viewer, and Editor.
>
> 2. One feature that I keep wishing for again and again is the ability
> to pipe the standard output (and/or the error output) of a command
> into the Viewer, maybe with a meta command such as >! . Alt-F4 ought
> to work to enabling editing (and saving!) of the captured output, if
> desired.
>
> 3. The ability to panelize the search results, so they can be sorted,
> tagged, moved, copied, deleted, etc.
>
> 4. The ability to pause a search and to raise the search position out
> of hopeless directories. With ever larger disks, we have more and more
> directories that are so big that FC can get lost in them for extended
> periods of time, and I wish I could tell it to come out and continue
> searching where the sun shines.
>
> 5. A simple quick&dirty text printing function (10pt Courier, 80 chars
> per line, 50 lines per page) on the default printer. Having to fire up
> notepad is demeaning.
>
> 6. Lastly, a quirk that keeps bugging me: when you do Search, then
> View, you get the found text highlighted, but when you do Alt-F4 to
> change into the Editor (for example because you want to copy the lines
> surrounding the found position into the clipboard), you lose the
> selection (near the top) and the cursor appears at the bottom (!) of
> the window, so that you have to move it up the entire height of the
> page to get to the area of interest. This is an unlikely usability
> blunder in an otherwise so polished application.
>
> Thanks!
> Hans
>
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