XYplorer Beta Club

I don't matter, but just to think loud...

1.) i find it logically:
one ! for quick&dirty executing an command
two !! for keep the DOS Box open for longer

2.) "90% of the time ... to remain"
i think for me it's not 90%, but maybe 60% , but definitely more often "remain" then "quick close"
and so i think you are right that "remain" is needed more often and so the shortest shortcut should be taken for this behaviour.
Anyway it's no work for me two press ! - key twice, ... and see point 1), i think it's OK like it is.

EDIT: for me is no tweak needed, i am fine if the shortcut would be exchanged vice versa as suggested.

TheQwerty wrote:

!dir = directory listing of current list folder
DOS box will vanish immediately, not very useful here
!!dir = directory listing of current list folder
DOS box stays visible

I would think the reverse would be more preferable (ie ! keeps the command prompt open).
90% of the time I'm more likely to want the command prompt to remain, or am I alone in this? Really I think the majority of my use of this will be to just open the command prompt without executing a command.


In the very least could this be a tweak?

admin wrote:

TheQwerty wrote:

!dir = directory listing of current list folder
DOS box will vanish immediately, not very useful here
!!dir = directory listing of current list folder
DOS box stays visible

I would think the reverse would be more preferable (ie ! keeps the command prompt open).
90% of the time I'm more likely to want the command prompt to remain, or am I alone in this? Really I think the majority of my use of this will be to just open the command prompt without executing a command.

In the very least could this be a tweak?

I had the same thought and I'm totally open to change it. I really would like to hear more opinions on this!

Yes please, reverse would be good for me too. I almost always want DOS to be open.

admin wrote:I had the same thought and I'm totally open to change it. I really would like to hear more opinions on this!

I'd agree, since I would think most of the time you'd want to keep the window to stay open, if only to read the output. Plus, it's easier to do "!" to open the dos prompt, rather than "!!" (and have "!" be useless).

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:I had the same thought and I'm totally open to change it. I really would like to hear more opinions on this!

I'd agree, since I would think most of the time you'd want to keep the window to stay open, if only to read the output. Plus, it's easier to do "!" to open the dos prompt, rather than "!!" (and have "!" be useless).

The few times I use a DOS prompt (outside of XY), I have to remember how to keep the window open cause it typically keeps closing and I never see what happened on my command so having a way to easily keep it open seems sensible.

For me "close after exec" is a (seldom used) special function and deserves a second !
Normal, and so shortest, should be "keep open".

That is: I'm for exchange, too.

By the way: it's faster to close manually, than recalling after wrongly having called it with one ! and it vanished accidentally...

OK, thanks everybody. I like your vote!

BTW

to quickly close an /k DOS-Box i have an batch in my system %path%

C:\Windows\x.cmd

X.cmd wrote:exit

That's it: type X and press ENTER inside the DOS window to close it.