Listary 5 Beta (5.00.2334)

Hello Channing,

when i use

•New: Press Ctrl twice to show/hide Listary. Very very handy!

too Show Listary in DOpus or Windows Explorer

Listary was open, but when i use Ctrl twice again Listary will Change his postion and size.

After ctrl twice Listary will be hide.

First Ctrl twice


Second Ctrl twice

Third Ctrl twich
Listary will be hide

Greetings
wazlaf

This is by design. The second time you press Ctrl twice, Listary switches to launcher mode.

Nice. I like that beta :smile:

Some suggestions:
In ABC Keywords, Web tab: It would be nice if I could choose the web browser the keyword is starting with.
Is there a way to add custom columns into the search result? so that I for example add the “Date modified” column and can sort quickly for the newest file on top?
I miss (simple) regex in the search field

What I especially like:

  • mkdir - verrry cool
  • the Custom tab in ABC Keywords… especially the checkbox “Run as administrator”
  • error reporting :wink:

Dan

I understand this as feature to launch apps, for example, from inside Directory Opus, without having to press Ctrl twice to open it, then Ctrl twice to change to launcher. It could be useful to have a hotkey again to open straight to launcher. What do you think?

Thanks

Hello Channing,

Thank’s for your answer

If I had on (two) wish,

  • can you please use a extra hotkey for launcher mode
  • and with the first time i press ctrl Listary will open and with the second time i press ctrl listary will be hide

Many thanks

Greetings
wazlaf

Do you want to set a browser for all web sites or set a different browser for every site?

Not yet :frowning:

It’s not complex to add regex support. Which prefix do you prefer to activate regex in current search?

When you want to hide Listary, just press Esc.

Discuss this topic here.

Continuing the discussion from Listary 5 Beta (5.00.2133):

I myself am using IE for work, Chrome for another company and Firefox for personal stuff. So, yes, it would be nice to enter several webbrowsers in a list of predefined browsers and then, per ABC Keyword select either the default or one of the predefined browsers.

Perhaps one day would be cool. :smile:

Hmm… with simple regex I really meant the standard stuff, more like wildcards in CMD shell. Like

Document*.doc
*Hello*.*
Report ???.xls

…and so on. I do not think that a prefix should be needed for this.

If you want to implement actual regexp in addition to the wildcards functions above, that would be cool, though. On the other hand, I would assume that not many average users would grasp regexp (including me, I only use very basic regexp on linux shells)
Anyway, if we stay with simple regexp, you might want to consider / as the prefix and postfix. This is done this way with linux sed(1) commands, for example. Or since it would be a subset of regexp, you would probably not implement character classes. Thus the character “:” (colon) might be a good prefix too. Of course it would have to be a colon on the very first position of the search line, otherwise it might collide with the “keyword:” syntax…

:^sto       would find "stopit.doc", but not "History.doc"
/^sto*/     is the same as above in sed syntax, I think

Daniel

Just a minor thought
Would be nice if the Batch add feature would show the current commands in the batch add format in the edit window, i.e. when I select an option “show current commands” in the Batch Add window.
That way I could copy the content and paste it to another computer where I have Listary installed as well and Batch Add open…

A question to Menus in the beta.
In Options - Menus - Toolbar, I see the following structure:

Favorite
Menu: Total Commander Directory Menu
Menu: Favorite
Menu: Application Favorite
Recent
Menu:Recent
Commands
Menu:Commands

I assume the Toolbar is in the search window on the right side (the 3 …) when I start Listary in launch mode.
When I click the Favorite Menu in the launch box, I see no entry (since my Favorite menu is still empty). So far so good…

Now, what are the two entries
Menu: Total Commander Directory Menu
Menu: Application Favorite

I do not see those Menus anywhere. I do not have Total Commander installed as well.
What are those two menus for?

I’ll add wildcards support first, and maybe regex in a later version.

Had the same behavior.
But I see that it’s already fixed in the last beta:

Change log (5.00.2134)
•Fixed: Ctrl+C didn’t work in file managers while Listary was running.

Cool. Thanks.

Importing & Exporting (for all settings) will be available soon.

They are just placeholders. If you have Total Commander installed, it’ll be replaced with your TC menu. And if you don’t, nothing will be shown.

“Application Favorite” is used for backward compatibility with Listary 3. You don’t need it now.

Bug? Can’t get Fuzzy matching to switch off.

I enabled Fuzzy matching in Listary Options to try it out. I did not like it, or did not understand it. Anyway, I disabled Fuzzy matching again, Applied the change, exited with OK.

However, Listary still presents me Fuzzy matching results in the launch bar. I also exited Listary completely and restarted. Still same behavior.

If I type in explorer, I do not get fuzzy matching results…

In the launch bar, if I type “mail”, I am presented with the following, supposedly fuzzy matching results. I think this might be a bug:

Fuzzy matching is always enabled for the app launcher so that you can type “pp” to launch “PowerPoint” for example.

In the portable version, Listary creates a folder called “UserData”. It seems to me that all configuration is in that folder.
So when Channing just released a new Beta, I copied that folder to the new Beta directory (which did not contain that folder) and all my configuration was there again…

(I prefer to use portable apps as much as possible. more flexibility for me)

Ah, ok. Good to know. Thanks.