XYplorer Beta Club

Hi, I've looked through the documentation and there is nothing there, I've read through all the customize shortcuts and there is nothing there, I've searched through the forum and I find lots of people not being quite satisfied with a number of things including how xyplorer does things in its own, non-standard way and then there are some autohotkey-scripts which attempts to fix xyplorer.

There reason I need to go to the address bar is so that I can copy and paste the address into explorer since xyplorer doesn't register context-menu entries and so I can't use it with any of my installed programs such as unpacking a zipped file by right-clicking and stuff.

Please send help.

Tab/F6?

Ctrl+Alt+a

Tools > Customize Keyboard Shortcuts... > Misc > Focus Functions > Focus Address Bar


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Thanks Stefan!

I fixed it with Autohotkey, since I use CTRL+L more often to go to the address bar rather than locking a tab.

Why not remove Control+L from its assigned function in tools/customize keyboard shotcuts
and reassign Control+L to your "go to the address bar "
way simpler that a script

Calude

The advantage of using Autohotkey to flay idiosyncratic, misbehaving programs into submission is that all your customizations are portable.

As opposed to having to enter these again and again, for each computer or reinstall.

This way you can also share them with for example dropbox.

Case in point, even though I tried my best to find out how to do this in XYplorer, there were so many - and unsearchable - options, that I just couldn't see how to do it.

Now, I have this customization documented in a single file, together with all the other customizations I use.

Calude

vegard wrote:The advantage of using Autohotkey to flay idiosyncratic, misbehaving programs into submission is that all your customizations are portable.

but XYplorers customizations are portable on its own well... whatever floats your boat...

Yes, I'm sure.

And so are the customizations for many, many other programs.

Each separately portable, easily found in dozens of different locations.

And some which are not.

By which having a single file for my customizations, avoids having to hunt down, figure out, setup, etc.

And I can also instantly disable all customizations by stopping autohotkey, should I or other users have the need for that.

My boat is non-soluble in water.

vegard wrote:Case in point, even though I tried my best to find out how to do this in XYplorer, there were so many - and unsearchable - options, that I just couldn't see how to do it.

Here is one way you probably have not tried:
1) Menu Help > Make List of Functions...
2) Paste list into editor
3) Search for "Address Bar" or "Focus"
4) You would have found the command within 20 seconds.

I could, but that would required me to know beforehand that "Make list of functions" has something to do with "Customizable shortcuts".

I associate "functions" in this context with "scripting", not "commands" that can be executed by shortcuts or menu-choices, so that is not intuitive to me.

If on the other hand there was a small search-field in the "customize keyboard shortcuts" dialog, where I could search for "address", then I could have found every customizable shortcut that could be associated with "address bar" and I would have seen...

... seriously duder, you're not telling me to export a list of functions for your program to a text-file and then plough through that?

I guess you are.

Anyway, that's just great, but I suggest filtering available shortcuts on a textstring would be easier and more intuitive.

vegard wrote:I could, but that would required me to know beforehand that "Make list of functions" has something to do with "Customizable shortcuts".

I associate "functions" in this context with "scripting", not "commands" that can be executed by shortcuts or menu-choices, so that is not intuitive to me.

You are right! I currently cannot tell you why I chose "functions" instead of "commands". I think I will change it...

Search interface: maybe later.