Alternatives to moving files and opening new tabs

[aliteralmind]

I'm sort of blown away by XYplorer so far. Here are the first feature requests that come to mind:

I wish there were more flexible ways of moving items, and for creating new tabs in either pane.

I'd like to be able to drag a folder or file to a breadcrumb bar item, or to a sub-item under one of its triangles, to move/copy it there.

I'm especially interested in emulating the behavior of Google Chrome and Firefox, where you can open a new tab by dragging a link to either between two currently-open tabs, or to the empty space on the tab-bar (either or the open-a-new-tab plus-sign, or the empty space next to it). In XYplorer, I'd like to:
- Drag a breadcrumb-bar item, or a triangle-sub-item, to the spot where you want the new tab. (I don't think it makes sense to drag a breadcrumb item for the sake of copying or moving its contents.)
- Drag a folder from either a list or the tree to the spot where you want the new tab.

Finally, I'd like some alternatives to opening a new tab via the mouse (I don't like Ctrl+double-clicking or middle-clicking a folder). For example:
- Alt+left-click/right-click a folder, in either a pane or in the tree, to open it in a new tab in the *active* or *inactive* pane.
- Ctrl+Alt+left-click/right-click a folder to open it in the *left* or *right* pane.
- Same mouse/key-combinations for when clicking on a breadcrumb item or sub-item.

That is all. For now

[bdeshi]

Well, XY is mainly a file manager, so drag-drop file operations have more weight than drag-drop tab creation. Not saying that would be a bad thing though.

Breadcrumbs: there have been some more threads for making the breadcrumb more interactive. But alas. (example: follow the links: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 293#p58383)

Similarly there has been some (so far unsuccessful) discussion to add mouse triggers to customizable keyboard shortcuts. But again, alas. http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 066#p64158

I vehemently support both! +1 +1

[aliteralmind]

Perhaps these two context menu commands
- "Open all selected folders in new tab (active pane)"
- "Open all selected folders in new tab (inactive pane)"
would make the above stuff less critical.

[aliteralmind]

The more I think about it, the more these two open-all-selected-folders commands would render much of my original suggestion less important.

[bdeshi]

Perhaps these two context menu commands
- "Open all selected folders in new tab (active pane)"
- "Open all selected folders in new tab (inactive pane)"
would make the above stuff less critical.

Easily scripted. Open Tools -> Customize File Associations. Click the pencil button at the bottom to convert the dialog into a textbox, and add the following lines to the text (make sure they're in their own lines)

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+|"Open folders in new tabs"\>::$SelDirs = <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){tab(new,$itm)}};
+|"Open folders in new tabs (in inactive pane)"\>::$SelDirs = <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;#802/*togl.pane*/;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){tab(new,$itm)}} wait 1;#802;

[/size]Now select folders, right click -> Open With -> Open folders in new tabs/Open folders in new tabs (in inactive pane)

[aliteralmind]

Now select folders, right click -> Open With -> Open folders in new tabs/Open folders in new tabs (in inactive pane)

Wonderful!

I can get this working via the Ctrl+Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut, but I don't see any "Open With" option when I right click. This is true both in my current XYplorer setup, and when I start it with "/fresh".

[TheQwerty]

Make sure you have it enabled under Configuration > General > Menus, Mouse, Safety, Context Menus
Ensure Custom Items in shell context menu is checked (based on your screenshot it is) and then click File List... to configure which items are shown.

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[aliteralmind]

That's it.

Thank you both!!

[aliteralmind]

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+|"Open folders in new tabs"\>::$SelDirs = <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){tab(new,$itm)}};
+|"Open folders in new tabs (in inactive pane)"\>::$SelDirs = <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;#802/*togl.pane*/;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){tab(new,$itm)}} wait 1;#802;

Is there a way to extend this to shortcuts that happen to *point* to folders?

[bdeshi]

*.lnk shortcuts to folders should also popup these Open With menu items.

(*.lnks automagically inherit their target's Portable File Associations)

[aliteralmind]

I've been running it via the User scripting menu. Only actual folders work that way.

I'll consider moving it to Open With...

[aliteralmind]

Tried it both ways. It doesn't work if a folder-shortcut is selected, whether selected via Open With, or via a key command to an item in the User script menu. The only two choices given, though, are the two "Open folders in new tab" items.

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+mp3>C:\applications\audio\Audacity\audacity.exe
+bat,html,sh,txt,py>"C:\applications\text\textpad_7\TextPad.exe" C:\applications\text\textpad_7\working.tws
+bat,html,sh,txt,py>C:\applications\text\sublime_text_3\sublime_text.exe
txt>Notepad
txt;rtf>Wordpad
|"Copy file size in bytes" *>::copytext <cursize>
|"Append modified date" \;*>::rename , '*-<datem yyyymmdd>'
+|"Open folders in new tabs (in inactive pane)"\>::$SelDirs = <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;/*togl.pane:*/#802;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){tab(new,$itm)}} wait 1;#802;
+|"Open folders in new tabs"\>::$SelDirs = <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;                   foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){tab(newb,$itm)}};

[bdeshi]

Oh.
Right, what I said earlier is true, but our script needed to be modified to work with shortcut targets.

Try these sripts in place of the earlier ones:

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+|"Open folders in new tabs"\>::$SelDirs= <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){$target=$itm}if (getpathcomponent($itm,ext)=="lnk"){$itm=property("#LinkTarget",$itm);if (exists("$itm")==2){$target=$itm}} tab(newb,$itm)}
+|"Open folders in new tabs (in inactive pane)"\>::$SelDirs= <get SelectedItemsPathNames>;/*togl.pane:*/#802;foreach ($itm,$SelDirs,<crlf>){if (exists("$itm")==2){$target=$itm}if (getpathcomponent($itm,ext)=="lnk"){$itm=property("#LinkTarget",$itm);if (exists("$itm")==2){$target=$itm}} tab(newb,$itm)} wait 1;/*togl.pane.back*/#802;

[aliteralmind]

That did it. Thank you!