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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
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            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
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              @Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife

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

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

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

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              Now you can already open selected paths with run menu

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              If you want to add it to the context menu do

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

              Then you have

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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
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                          @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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