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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

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

                  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

                  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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