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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
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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
                        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)"

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

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