Enhance the Action menu, please!

Hi,

I would like to suggest 2 simple but will be very useful enhancements to the Listary Action menu (which is brought up by the Right arrow key on a selected path/file)

  1. Add action: Type out the path. (This means Listary will simulate typing out of the full path).
    This action will help a lot if I am in an file/path input field of a form. Instead of i) copy path to clipboard then ii) Paste it to the input field, I rather Listary type it to the input field.

  2. I access some of the actions on the Action menu more often than the Listary author can imagine. So, please, let me assigned Hotkey for the actions. At least, make the action menu supports accelerate key.

Hello,

Thank you very much for your suggestions!

  1. This is not easy to implement as it seems. Currently I haven’t found a stable way to output contents to input fields. If you use the clipboard approach, all you need is two extra key presses Ctrl+V. I think it’s quite acceptable.

  2. Added to to-do list. Could you please tell me the actions you use most often so I can add some default hotkeys to them?

For 2., my most frequently use action is…

of course the “Copy path to Clipboard” !!!

I need to paste it again, remember? :slight_smile:

Btw, I would like to suggest a change of the title to “Copy path/file to Clipboard” because the item being acted on could be a file.

Hi Channing,

There is one more crucial flaw in your action menu: there is no way to go back to previous menu if I have selected a wrong item. Hitting [Esc] key quit everything to the root. i.e. once I [Right-arrow], there is no way back except to start everything from scratch, that is to start with [Win+S] again.

May be you should make [Left-arrow] key to go back to the search navigation menu.

Btw, I would like to suggest a change of the title to “Copy path/file to Clipboard” because the item being acted on could be a file.

If the selected file is C:\foo\bar.txt

Copy Path to Clipboard: C:\foo\bar.txt

Copy Folder Path to Clipboard: C:\foo

There is one more crucial flaw in your action menu: there is no way to go back to previous menu if I have selected a wrong item.

ESC should bring you back to the previous search. Please make sure you’re using version 4.00.1167. You can download it here:listary.com/download.