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    Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
    last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 8:39 AM

    I have tried this in another similar program with the option : Open selected file with default application. And does well.

    So I think this may be done with an addon or similar.
    But sure notepad++ can do.

    It is true ?

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      Alan Kilborn @Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
      last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 12:20 PM

      @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife

      I think Peter hit on it earlier when he said “it might have to do with the filename having spaces”.

      Did you highlight/(select) the text of the path to the file before using this manner to attempt to open it?

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        Alan Kilborn @Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
        last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 12:29 PM

        @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife

        Oh, wait, I read closer what you said:

        When I apply to open the png file opens like a txt file

        Well, what do you expect from a text editor like Notepad++? It’s world is text :-)

        What you seem to be looking for here is maybe some sort of “ShellExecute”. This is likely possible, but not without some custom setup (e.g. Run menu).

        In the second case the folder don’t open

        For this one, you can “sort of” do it with Notepad++. If you invoke Edit (menu) > On Selection > Open Containing Folder in Explorer , you will get an Explorer window in the parent window of the chosen folder (with the chosen folder selected).

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          Ekopalypse
          last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 12:31 PM

          I assume OP wants to open the selected text with the default application.
          If this is the case there are two steps involved to make it work
          with context.menu.

          1. create a run menu entry: cmd /c "start $(CURRENT_WORD)"
            and save it with a meaningful name. I chose OpenWithDefaultApp
          2. Settings->Edit Popup Context Menu and add <Item MenuEntryName="Run" MenuItemName="OpenWithDefaultApp"/>

          Restart npp.

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            Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
            last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 12:38 PM

            @Ekopalypse

            How about relative paths in the selected text? :-)

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              Ekopalypse
              last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 12:57 PM

              Depends whether the path is always relative to one directory I guess.

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                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 1:01 PM

                @Ekopalypse

                I found a problem with the suggested Run menu entry. It doesn’t work for folders with embedded spaces. :-(

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                  PeterJones
                  last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 1:08 PM

                  @Ekopalypse said

                  cmd /c "start $(CURRENT_WORD)"

                  @Alan-Kilborn said,

                  It doesn’t work for folders with embedded spaces

                  This variant works for me: cmd /c "$(CURRENT_WORD)", even when both the folder and filename have a space, like with:

                  C:\Users\peter.jones\AppData\Local\Temp\space folder\space name.bmp
                  
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                    Ekopalypse @PeterJones
                    last edited by Ekopalypse Mar 10, 2020, 1:15 PM Mar 10, 2020, 1:14 PM

                    @PeterJones, @Alan-Kilborn, @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife

                    it seems that even cmd is not required, just "$(CURRENT_WORD)",
                    at least on windows7 this is working for me.

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                      Ekopalypse
                      last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 1:23 PM

                      I guess this and that explains why it doesn’t need a cmd shell at all.

                      Quote from MSDN:
                      open - Launches an application. If this file is not an executable file, its associated application is launched.

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                        Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                        last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 6:21 PM

                        I have opened a txt file with another text editor …

                        I put a screenshot : http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/4857/uZvuc1.png

                        do you see the option ?
                        I have selected in the text file a path to the desktop
                        and when selecting the option I can open that path

                        The same with a path to a pdf file : open the pdf with the default program
                        The same with a path to an image : open the image with the default program to see the images…

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                          Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife @Ekopalypse
                          last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 6:31 PM

                          @Ekopalypse said in open selected file in default application:

                          I assume OP wants to open the selected text with the default application.
                          If this is the case there are two steps involved to make it work
                          with context.menu.

                          1. create a run menu entry: cmd /c "start $(CURRENT_WORD)"
                            and save it with a meaningful name. I chose OpenWithDefaultApp
                          2. Settings->Edit Popup Context Menu and add <Item MenuEntryName="Run" MenuItemName="OpenWithDefaultApp"/>

                          Restart npp.

                          Ufff. I was thinking in an addon or something. In the example I put above that option comes with the text editor . Surely must be something similar for npp

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                            PeterJones
                            last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 6:52 PM

                            @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife said in open selected file in default application:

                            I was thinking in an addon or something.

                            Apparently you didn’t understand. @Ekopalypse solution used two builtin features of Notepad++.

                            1. Use Run > Run
                            2. type "$(CURRENT_WORD)" (with the quotes) in the The Program to Run box
                              cf9c46c3-a113-45f9-b049-fa73c3228686-image.png
                            3. Click Save…. Give it the name OpenWithDefaultApp and hit OK 5f8ee26e-afee-4ccb-9706-fb142b270a8e-image.png
                            4. hit cancel to get out of that box
                            5. Settings > Edit Popup Context Menu
                            6. Down near the end, maybe just before </ScintillaContextMenu>, add <Item MenuEntryName="Run" MenuItemName="OpenWithDefaultApp"/>
                            7. Save
                            8. Exit
                            9. Reload Notepad++

                            Now that you’ve set it up, highlight your filename, right click to bring up the context menu, and select OpenWithDefaultApp. If the filename was a .png, it will open up your default png-image editing application with that filename. I thought that’s what you wanted.

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                              Ekopalypse @Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                              last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 6:55 PM

                              @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife

                              there is no need for an addon as npp can do it using run menu.

                              Run->run… and add "$(CURRENT_WORD)"

                              ec6b62e3-5ec7-443a-a32a-1c57edd3d7dd-image.png

                              press Save... and give it a meaningful name like OpenWithDefaultApp

                              1f6b8e6d-5f17-4e84-8b2b-778c390285b0-image.png

                              Now you can already open selected paths with run menu

                              1e17f6f9-8165-42c8-b987-c3d2d42d1b7a-image.png

                              If you want to add it to the context menu do

                              c8d40831-6db8-4408-b75a-5d2be655f917-image.png

                              and put the following into it <Item MenuEntryName="Run" MenuItemName="OpenWithDefaultApp"/>

                              Then you have

                              2fcd3d17-bcda-42f3-a31e-ca3fae034266-image.png

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                                guy038
                                last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 8:05 PM

                                Hello, @edificio-rascacielos-tenerife, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse and All,

                                I tested the various syntaxes, to put in the The Program to Run box, after hitting the F5 key, on my old Windows XP SP3 laptop !

                                And it happened that using the cmd and/or the Start commands did not work properly, in some cases, when filename and/or path contain spaces !


                                Finally, using the simple syntax "$(CURRENT_WORD)" and, even, the syntax $(CURRENT_WORD), without the double quotes " are just fine, in all cases :

                                • when selecting an absolute path with/without space(s) ( for instance, Drive Letter:\----\-- --\----\-- --.jpg )

                                • when selecting a relative path with/without space(s) ( for instance ( \----\-- --\----\-- --.jpg )

                                • when selecting only a filename with/without space(s) ( for instance, -- --.jpg )

                                Remark : Even if these paths or filenames are, themselves, embedded between double quotes ", the result is still correct, with the two syntaxes "$(CURRENT_WORD)" or $(CURRENT_WORD) and the filename is opened with its default application ;-))

                                Best Regards,

                                guy038

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                                  Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                                  last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 8:51 PM

                                  Well I am going to try.

                                  I think above is the answer.
                                  Why don’t you put this in the contextual menu for the npp version ? for no programmers like me may be the best solution !

                                  Nevertheless I gonna try and comments.

                                  It seems to me easier at a first glance try to follow the Ekopalypse’s instructions…

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                                    Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                                    last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 9:02 PM

                                    Done !
                                    My first attempt was not good. I try only vary the contextual menu but runs nothing.
                                    Then I put the environment in english and try to create the script to run the program OpenWithDefaultApp
                                    with the line : “$(CURRENT_WORD)”

                                    Then reopen the program all began to work.

                                    Best regards

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                                      PeterJones
                                      last edited by PeterJones Mar 10, 2020, 9:08 PM Mar 10, 2020, 9:08 PM

                                      @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife said in open selected file in default application:

                                      Why don’t you put this in the contextual menu for the npp version ? f

                                      Two reasons.

                                      First, because the “you” you are talking to are fellow Notepad++ users; we aren’t employees of the Notepad++ Corporation (which doesn’t exist); while some of us have contributed to the codebase, mostly, we are just users, like you.

                                      Second, the development team (and especially the lead developer) have made Notepad++ highly configurable; as they cannot read the mind of every single user to know exactly how each individual wants all the context menus, and because multiple users disagree on what they want = you might want OpenWithDefaultApp in the context menu by default, but somebody else, or thousands of somebody else, might not want something so useless cluttering the already-full context menu; it’s a matter of opinion. So the developers put in what they think are reasonable defaults, and make it configurable. And they don’t consider editing a configuration file to be “programming”, so they don’t expect that it would be too difficult, especially when people in this forum give you the step-by-step instructions on how to do it, tailored to your individual desires.

                                      Done !
                                      Then reopen the program all began to work.

                                      Glad it’s working for you.

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                                        Alan Kilborn
                                        last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 10:10 PM

                                        Didn’t there used to be such an thing, in an earlier version of Notepad++? I can’t find it now anywhere in 7.8.5.

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                                          Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife @PeterJones
                                          last edited by Mar 10, 2020, 10:14 PM

                                          @PeterJones said in open selected file in default application:

                                          @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife said in open selected file in default application:

                                          Why don’t you put this in the contextual menu for the npp version ? f

                                          Two reasons.

                                          First, because the “you” you are talking to are fellow Notepad++ users; we aren’t employees of the Notepad++ Corporation (which doesn’t exist); while some of us have contributed to the codebase, mostly, we are just users, like you.

                                          Second, the development team (and especially the lead developer) have made Notepad++ highly configurable; as they cannot read the mind of every single user to know exactly how each individual wants all the context menus, and because multiple users disagree on what they want = you might want OpenWithDefaultApp in the context menu by default, but somebody else, or thousands of somebody else, might not want something so useless cluttering the already-full context menu; it’s a matter of opinion. So the developers put in what they think are reasonable defaults, and make it configurable. And they don’t consider editing a configuration file to be “programming”, so they don’t expect that it would be too difficult, especially when people in this forum give you the step-by-step instructions on how to do it, tailored to your individual desires.

                                          Done !
                                          Then reopen the program all began to work.

                                          Glad it’s working for you.

                                          Owww Peter. Understood. For me that feature is important because let me use the txt file like a connecting panel with everything. The url are native clickable, so I use clickable folder (by selection) , clickable file.
                                          From the txt file I can go everywhere.
                                          But that is my freedom now.
                                          Thanks Everybody !!!

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