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Hi,
I need to know how to put passive panel in this line:
"c:\WinRAR\Rar.exe" a -y !?Nombre del archivo:?! !&
This line is a user menu option to compress selected files in RAR format. Works, but i want to put the drive/folder of passive panel.
Any help?
Thanks.
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Re: Help with special symbols in User Menu...

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F1?
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Re: Help with special symbols in User Menu...

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Mauro72
in Far 1.75, it's here: open the New User Menu Command dialog (titled “Edit user menu”), press F1 there and go by the “Special symbols” link.
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FAR3 is the version and i check the help with F1 and special symbols link, but i can't find a solution.
Try the symbols !#, but no work.
With !?Nombre del archivo:?! i need to write the name of the new file, but i want the dialog with the drive:\folder of passive panel.
Example:

Passive panel: D:\Audio
Active panel: E:\Manuales
So when i select x number of files of E:\Manuales, will be ok if the dialog put:
D:\Audio\'here write the filename'
More info?
Thanks.

PD: I'm still waiting the option to sort files and folders separately. xD
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Mauro72 wrote:Try the symbols !#, but no work.
It works.

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"c:\WinRAR\Rar.exe" a -y "!#!\!?Nombre del archivo:?!" !^!&
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Ok, works, but the dialog always is blank.
The window dialog 'Nombre de archivo' always is empty (or name enter below).
I know, is irrelevant to show or not show the full path. (D:\Audio\'here write the filename') or ('here write the filename' directly)
I remember Dos NAvigator user menu syntax and works perfectly. Some like !.!:\!.!
Thanks anyway John Doe.
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Read the help on special symbols carefully, it has some syntax involving parentheses to use !#!\ in the default value for !??!.
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Re: Help with special symbols in User Menu...

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Yeah...... I find the solution. :D
Like Centaur says, the parentheses is needed. And the working correct line is:

"c:\WinRAR\Rar.exe" a -y !?Nombre del archivo:?(!#!\)! !^!&

Thanks boys for the help. Question solved. :Yahoo!:
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"user menu" special symbols

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Hi,

I want to create a user command available in "user menu" to copy big file with external tool.
I want to copy selected and undercursor file/directory to the other panel path.
I can match easily the file select in the current panel with "!&" but i don't find a symbol for the other panel path.

The command is like this:
externaltool.exe source="!.! !&" destination=""

destination symbol missing :'(

Is there a way to do this ?
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mrfyx wrote: i don't find a symbol for the other panel path
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FAR Help wrote:"!^" modifier specified before a file association symbol forces it (and all the following characters) to refer to the active panel (see note 4).
For example, !^!.! denotes a current file name on the active panel, !##!\\!^!.! - a file on the passive panel with the same name as the name of the current file on the active panel.
[…]
4. The prefixes "!##" and "!^" work as toggles for associations. The effect of these prefixes continues up to the next similar prefix.
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oups sorry, I read it to quickly.

Thanks anyway
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FarMenu.ini syntax and special aliases

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I would like to know if exists an alias for the list of tagged (the ones marked yellow with INS key) files inside the "FarMenu.ini" file.

Does it exists?

I also need the missed ones () in the following list:
- name of current file (!.!)
- name of current file without extension (!^!)
- path of current panel (!\)
- path of opposite panel ()
- name of current file with full path (!\!.!) or?
- name of current file in the opposite panel with full path ()
- list of all tagged files ()
- name of a temporary file with all tagged files, one per line ()

Are available nested menus?

Thank you to all!
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FarMenu.ini syntax and special aliases

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Press F2 F1 Enter and read (the help page).
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Post by SuperStainless »

There is nothing in the concise contextual help. Or maybe in the Russian version is better, but I use the English version.
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Post by pepak »

Actually, it's in the English version too. Precisely where Shmuel wrote it would be.

Note that "name of current file without extension" should be "!", not "!^!".

Nested menus are not available in the stock FAR. I implemented a basic support for them and published it somewhere in the forum for an older build of FAR3, but there apparently wasn't any interest in it so I stopped updating it here and only use it in my own FAR build.
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