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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
      last edited by

      @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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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse
        last edited by

        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 KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
          last edited by

          @Ekopalypse

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

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse
            last edited by

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

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
              last edited by

              @Ekopalypse

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

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              • PeterJonesP
                PeterJones
                last edited by

                @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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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @PeterJones
                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                  @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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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse
                    last edited by

                    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 TenerifeE
                      Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                      last edited by

                      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 TenerifeE
                        Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife @Ekopalypse
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • PeterJonesP
                          PeterJones
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                          @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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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse @Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                            last edited by

                            @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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                            • guy038G
                              guy038
                              last edited by

                              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 TenerifeE
                                Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                                last edited by

                                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 TenerifeE
                                  Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                  • PeterJonesP
                                    PeterJones
                                    last edited by PeterJones

                                    @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 KilbornA
                                      Alan Kilborn
                                      last edited by

                                      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 TenerifeE
                                        Edificio Rascacielos Tenerife @PeterJones
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • Alan KilbornA
                                          Alan Kilborn
                                          last edited by

                                          Cross-link to similar info: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19192/launch-in-default-web-browser

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