Various Wishes

[jacky]

Hey, okay I know you got your own set of priorities now, but that doesn't mean we should stop wishing right ? So, a few things I've had on my mind for a while and I can think of right now :

- Color filters are really useful, and I wish they'd be added on LM, because that list on Config is nice for some basics, but the ability to use LM and its Editor mode would be really helpful on many occasions IMO

- I think I mentioned this already, but I'd like the ability to apply Tree's highlight colors applied on List. Not permanently, but as an on-demand thing "à la" CFS (Shift+F5) it might be useful, well, to me at least

- Changing/(un)setting VF through the Catalog works nice, but even without a change of location it does "release"/unset the Suspend Auto-Refresh : could that be changed ? Sometimes I work on a folder with activity, hence the Suspend AR, and I like to use VF through my Catalog, but having to re-set Suspend AR each time is a little annoying...

- I know you moved on to Undo, but (in the future) I would like for UDC to support all kinds of rename operations, not just batch/regexp, as well as other commands such as Set Tree's Highlight (of current location).

[admin]

- Changing/(un)setting VF through the Catalog works nice, but even without a change of location it does "release"/unset the Suspend Auto-Refresh : could that be changed ? Sometimes I work on a folder with activity, hence the Suspend AR, and I like to use VF through my Catalog, but having to re-set Suspend AR each time is a little annoying...

I picked out this nice one. And did it. Because it makes total sense:

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    * Now, when you set or unset a Visual Filter via Address Bar or 
      Catalog, the List receives a simple Refresh (not a Reset as 
      before). Which means e.g. that selections and the Suspend Auto-
      Refresh state are retained. IOW, the behavior is now as if the VF 
      was set via the "Set Visual Filter" dialog.

[admin]

I know you moved on to Undo, but (in the future) I would like for UDC to support all kinds of rename operations, not just batch/regexp, as well as other commands such as Set Tree's Highlight (of current location).

It will all come, but in a different, more free form: my age-old vision of XY scripting will handle all of this. And it will be very much like DOS:
keyword argument /option1 /option2 ...
e.g.:
highlighttree #ccffee
opentabbynumber 2
shell format c: /noquestions

The blue part is keywords of which I will provide an ever growing list (plus documentation of options). The orange part is what the users fills in. Very simple, very effective, unlimited power.

It will be a part of UDC and take place inside the UDC dialog. The now grey "Action" field will be a list of keywords in "scriptable UDCs". That's all there is to do.

[jacky]

It will all come, but in a different, more free form: my age-old vision of XY scripting will handle all of this. And it will be very much like DOS:
keyword argument /option1 /option2 ...
e.g.:
highlighttree #ccffee
opentabbynumber 2
shell format c: /noquestions

oh my!.. Except for that last example, I think I'm drooling over this... just throw in the ability to have one KS for a sequence of commands, and this sounds like heaven!


BTW, is there a reason for not having Color Filters on LM ? I used my text editor on the INI so I'm good for now, but it would only make sense to me to have it there.

[admin]

It will all come, but in a different, more free form: my age-old vision of XY scripting will handle all of this. And it will be very much like DOS:
keyword argument /option1 /option2 ...
e.g.:
highlighttree #ccffee
opentabbynumber 2
shell format c: /noquestions

oh my!.. Except for that last example, I think I'm drooling over this... just throw in the ability to have one KS for a sequence of commands, and this sounds like heaven!

Oh yes, it does, and you'll like it even more than boring heaven when you hear these two facts:

Fact 1: A sequence of commands will be done by simple concatenation. I'm still breeding over the syntax... status quo is this:

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::command1::command2::command3[etc...]

Fact 2: :: is also the magic script-marking-prefix. It will allow you to run scripts via address bar, catalog, favorites, goto etc. .. the usual ports. So, for example:
::rename *-<myyyymmdd> /batch will be just the same as a Rename-UDC with pattern *-<myyyymmdd> and option=batch

and ::goto C:\::selectall::nuke will finish your work for today.

You see: it's so extraordinarily mind-blowingly powerful, and so easy to handle for the user, and -- most important -- so bloody easy to implement, that I probably can't resist doing it before going into the terrible work of Undo...

BTW, is there a reason for not having Color Filters on LM ? I used my text editor on the INI so I'm good for now, but it would only make sense to me to have it there.

No reason... I'll add it... some day...

[jacky]

That noise is the back are the paramedics leaving. Apparently I had a little heart attack!

Oh yeah, everything one could want to do would be possible, accessible via one KS, one menu item, or one click through a Catalog item ! And not just any action, but also a sequence of actions!!
Yeah this sure as hell sounds better than a dream (especially if one can create as many menus (UDC) as one wants)

You see: it's so extraordinarily mind-blowingly powerful, and so easy to handle for the user, and -- most important -- so bloody easy to implement, that I probably can't resist doing it before going into the terrible work of Undo...

That sounds like the greatest thing I ever read, ever. Resistance is futile, just be Zen, relax, and don't even try to resist this! (Please)