Feture Req: Specify Editor for 'Edit ini files directly'

[robinsiebler]

It would be nice if I could choose which editor was launched for editing the INI files.

[Clo]

2robinsiebler

Hello !

• Indeed, I agree. AFAIR, this has been already requested "unsuccessfully" ages ago,
I mean that we got no Author's feed-back…

• Please, give a glance HERE.
- Users and I proposed also to use at least the stated editor for F4 (it was in another thread, I guess).
- Always using tricks and workarounds sucks for a so simple and justified feature. Might be built-in, of course…
Aside : A related annoyance never fixed-up is to get always both <wincmd.ini> and <wcx_ftp.ini>, while the most times one needs only the first (or seldom only the second).
- This requires a second command, there are only five entries in the menu…

VG
Claude
Clo

[Sheepdog]

There is a workaround that I use for years.

Create a stertermenu entry which calls your preferred editor with the ini files you want to edit. ( I launch wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini, totalcmd.inc, default.bar and a few other bar-files)

Change your menu:

POPUP "C&onfiguration"
MENUITEM "&Options...", cm_config
MENUITEM "Change B&utton Bar...", cm_ButtonConfig
MENUITEM "&Change Settings Files Directly...", 701
MENUITEM "&Save Position", cm_configSavepos
MENUITEM "Sa&ve Settings", 580
END_POPUP

sheepdog

[SanskritFritz]

2robinsiebler
What editor are you using? Most editors come with a notepad.exe utility, which, when replaced with the windows original, in turn call your editor (TextPad, PSPad, ConText, Crimson just to name a few).

[ts4242]

if you like download this little program and extract inside windows folder after renaming windows notepad.exe to any other name

it is useful with many other programs that shell notepad.exe

[icfu]

Or if you just want a notepad replacement and not one of the "big editors", just download a tiny editor of your choice, rename it to notepad.exe and overwrite the original. I mean, TC is not the only program which calls Notepad directly, so the use of another command in TC would only fix this annoyance in TC.

One of the first things I do after Windows installations is to replace Notepad with metapad. notepad.exe gets renamed to notepadsucks.exe which is very easy to remember in case I should ever need it (for testing purposes).

Icfu

[majkinetor !]

Or you can use choice editor

2icfu
You don't have to keep NotepadSucks.exe for testing.
Its just a big EDIT, nothing more, so you can "test" in any other edit in Windows

[icfu]

Nope, I mean special "Notepad" testing, like hacking resources for fun, changing menus and stuff like that.

Icfu

[XPEHOPE3KA]

You all seem to have forgotten the new environmental variable %Commander_INI%. If it's written to the start menu, the default system editor will be called for wincmd.ini in use.

[icfu]

Cool, but this thread is about editing ALL INI files. Besides wincmd.ini there is wcx_ftp.ini.

Icfu

[XPEHOPE3KA]

Well, that's up to Ghisler to implement one more env.var...
He was asked to somewhere but wasn't convinced.

[majkinetor !]

Hm.... let me think about that...

ITs hard question....


.... very hard.....
....... oh no... my head is going to explode....


... ar gh h..... should I........... create........ a n o... the ..r... variabl......e.......





BOOM!

[icfu]

Oops, does that mean that TC 7 will not be released? Ah well, I am sure you will code a file manager in AHK soon, right? With BIG FAT WONDERFUL icons!

Icfu

[Stance]

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em_OpenIniWithMyEditor
Command:<path to your favorite Editor.exe> %commander_ini%
Parameter: