Custom file manager
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Is there any way to set a custom file manager for actions like “Open containing folder”?
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Is there any way to set a custom file manager for actions like “Open containing folder”?
No.
But you could do something similar using the Run menu. Saving a Run-command of
"c:\path\to\filemanager.exe" "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"(or whatever syntax your file manager uses to open in a specific directory), and optionally giving it a keyboard shortcut, would allow you to launch the filemanager in the directory of the active file.And the editor’s right-click Context Menu and the tab-bar’s Tab Context Menu allow you to call the Run-menu entry from the right-click context menus. The syntax for mapping to a macro named “MyManager” would be
<Item MenuEntryName="Run" MenuItemName="MyManager"/>References
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@PeterJones said in Custom file manager:
No.
But you could do something similar using the Run menu. Saving a Run-command of
"c:\path\to\filemanager.exe" "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"(or whatever syntax your file manager uses to open in a specific directory), and optionally giving it a keyboard shortcut, would allow you to launch the filemanager in the directory of the active file.And the editor’s right-click Context Menu and the tab-bar’s Tab Context Menu allow you to call the Run-menu entry from the right-click context menus. The syntax for mapping to a macro named “MyManager” would be
<Item MenuEntryName="Run" MenuItemName="MyManager"/>References
Thanks Peter, I’ll take a look at that. Just for interest’s sake, is there any particular reason it isn’t possible to set a custom file manager?
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@deleelee said in Custom file manager:
is there any particular reason it isn’t possible to set a custom file manager?
My guess: either because no one has made an official feature request for it 🛈; or someone has, but the developer didn’t think it was worth doing. You can search the existing issues – open or closed – to see if someone else has requested it.
(Back in 2019, someone requested that “open in > cmd” be customizable, so he added the hidden option to set the commandLineInterpreter … So it’s not unreasonable to hope that the developer would similarly make a hidden option to change teh open-containing-folder action. But someone would have to ask.)
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is there any particular reason it isn’t possible to set a custom file manager?
It IS possible, you just have to follow Peter’s suggestions.
Of course, you probably mean some nice UI way of doing it…so, yes, that would involve a feature request and a hope that it gets implemented.
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