Creating a file from TC?

[BIGPILOT]

One of the things I'm missing from TC is to create a file (text, document, etc.) like in Windows Explorer.

[djk]

IMO it's possible.
Just click in the panel with the right button of the mouse and you will get the context menu with a "NEW..." item.

[Leif]

Or Shift+F4, insert file name et voilà

[icfu]

Why is notepad popping up after creating a new file? Quite annoying.
Can one suppress that?

Icfu

[SanskritFritz]

Why is notepad popping up after creating a new file? Quite annoying.
Can one suppress that?

Icfu

That depends on the extension you give for the new file. And why do you create a new file if you dont want to edit it?

[icfu]

That does NOT depend on extension as TC has no options for different F4 editors, this thread is about editors, not viewers... There is only one standard behaviour for F4, default is notepad.

So if I don't wanna edit the new file with notepad but with some different editor there is always one window opened I have no use for and therefore I always have to manually close it.

Icfu

[SanskritFritz]

I thought you mean the New... menuitem.

[Coco]

shift+F4 will indeed always edit the newly created file with the default editor. If you don't want this you should use the right click (like suggested by djk). To use the right button don't forget to change in the option the mouse selection mouse.

Sometimes I also want to create empty file so I encounter the same "issue".

[icfu]

Workaround:
Make a new start menu entry, name it 'newfile' or whatever.
Command: cmd.exe /c @echo off>newfile.txt

After that redefine hotkey Shift-F4 to cm_usermenu1 (or whatever number the entry is) under Configuration-Misc.

Now a new file named newfile.txt will be created when pressing Shift-F4 in active panel.
Attention: An exisiting file named newfile.txt will be overwritten without confirmation!

For mouse lovers a button with 'cmd.exe /c @echo off> newfile.txt' will work, too, of course.

No internal command for making a new file? Would be somewhat better I think...

Icfu

[Hacker]

cmd.exe /c @echo off>newfile.txt
...
Attention: An exisiting file named newfile.txt will be overwritten without confirmation!

Maybe
cmd.exe /c @echo off>>newfile.txt
would take care of the overwriting issue?

HTH
Roman

[oblomov]

cmd.exe implies WinNT ... what about using

touch filename

then?

[havanna]

any kind of commandline that can be piped should do

cls > new.fud will create a file named new.fud that contains just one byte hex "0C"

nul> new.txt creates an empty file named new.txt (annoyingly the windows "open with..." Dialog pops up, but that takes only one keystroke on esc.