Launch Everything from File selector dialog (open/save/save as)

[juan]

Hello, I just registered on this forum to be able to ask this question.

I would like to be able to launch Everything from a File selector dialog (also called the Open/save/save as dialog), so I can find files nested deep in folders, or (sub)folders with specific patterns in their filename.

At the moment, I have a keyboard shortcut to launch Everything, and if I use this shortcut in a normal File Explorer window, it does the right thing: an Everything window opens up at the path shown by the File Explorer window. However, if I do the same from a File selector dialog, the Everything windows that opens shows the root folder (\).

Is there a way I can have the File selector working path to be passed on to the new Everything window?

Thank you for this utility. I use it dozens of times every day - to the point I couldn't live without it anymore!

[meteorquake]

1. Would it help to be able to right-click a file/folder in the file selector, and so launch it by a menu item (to the right spot)?

2. You could likely also drag a file from the file selector over the everything folder view title or over the search bar to set the everything searcher

No doubt there are other options...

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[juan]

Thanks for your reply, @meteorquake.

1. Would it help to be able to right-click a file/folder in the file selector, and so launch it by a menu item (to the right spot)?

It would help a bit, but still no cigar.

Why "no cigar"? For example, if the current path in the File selector only contains folders - no simple files - right clicking one of them would launch Everything only in that folder - not in its parent, which is the desired behavior.

2. You could likely also drag a file from the file selector over the everything folder view title or over the search bar to set the everything searcher

Similar issue, and the dragging is even more mouse-intensive.

My hope is to be able to launch an Everything search in the folder shown by the File selector without having to touch the mouse.

[NotNull]

You need to activate the background contexxt menu. That is available by right-clicking in one of the orange areas in the screenshot below.

BTW: Which Everything version?

2023-02-07 17_14_15-Open.png (60.12 KiB) Viewed 3502 times

[meteorquake]

One additional note to that, you can generally launch a program on the parent of an item right-clicked by using "%1\..\" instead of "%1" or "%1\..\..\" for the next higher level still.
This could be done as an additional registry entry (can provide details if needed) but it may be there's a ready-made command option to do such things.
So
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\..\"
etc
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[juan]

Thanks for the info, @NotNull! If I'm not mistaken, this come straight from the horse's mouth: you're the author in person, right?

You need to activate the background contexxt menu. That is available by right-clicking in one of the orange areas in the screenshot below.
2023-02-07 17_14_15-Open.png

This needs a (right) mouse click anyway - right? Any chance it could be done by a simple keyboard shortcut as I'm doing from the File Explorer?

BTW: Which Everything version?

Version 1.4.1.1022 Lite (x64) - I do check for updates periodically, so it should be the latest.

One additional note to that, you can generally launch a program on the parent of an item right-clicked by using "%1\..\" instead of "%1" or "%1\..\..\" for the next higher level still.

Yes @meteorquake, thanks again. I know about ".." notation, but my issue is that when Everything is invoked from File selector (open/save) dialog by a keyboard shortcut (as opposed by a right-click context menu), it doesn't receive the current path as a parameter. Which it does if the keyboard shortcut is used from a "regular" File Explorer window.

[horst.epp]

Why not using the NotNull's JumpToFolder AHK script ?
This works fine from Open/Save dialogs.

[juan]

Hello @horst.epp, thanks for your suggestion. I didn't know about the JumpToFolder script, and I had to search the web to find out what AHK means

I'll explore this path, although if it is a simple matter to solve with Everything alone, I would prefer a solution that doesn't require extra software.

[juan]

One additional note to that, you can generally launch a program on the parent of an item right-clicked by using "%1\..\" instead of "%1" or "%1\..\..\" for the next higher level still.
This could be done as an additional registry entry (can provide details if needed) but it may be there's a ready-made command option to do such things.
So
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\..\"
etc
d

Hello meteorquake, after some thought I came back to this issue.
I think your suggestion is the best solution after all. How do I create such a registry entry for the background context referred to by NotNull in his post here?