Open a file directly on FTP based on file associations

[Orion]

When connected to an FTP-server, one can use F3 to view the text of file. A temporary copy of the file is automatically created by a download and the view function is then applied to the temp file.

It would be nice if you could just double-click or press Enter on other types of files than text and similarly have a temporary copy of the file downloaded and the appropriate application opening it based on file association. Thus you would be able to easily see the contents of a PDF file or view a JPG.

Does anybody know if there is a way to achieve this?

[Horst.Epp]

If you have some Universal viewer like ULister installed
you can just view almost any file type
and there is no need to execute an application.

[Rockin]

Personally I'd like to have this feature as well. Something like ULister falls short for me.

[Orion]

There is of course the various lister plugins.

However, I was so focused on the internal Total Commander viewer, which has fantastic performance for text files, that I forgot about the external viewer. If you go to Configuration - Options - Operation - Edit/View, there is in fact an "Associations" button through which you can associate various file types with certain applications, e.g. Foxit PDF reader for PDF files.

This works fine so that a PDF file on the FTP server can be opened directly by pressing Alt-F3, if the internal viewer is kept as F3. I can live with having to press Alt-F3 rather than double-click / Enter.

Again, if one has to regularly view many different types of files, one the various viewer plugins may be a better solution. The Ulister looks awesome.