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FavMenu3

FavMenu3 stores a list of your favorite folders, and let you quickly jump to them within system dialogs (Open/Save, Browse For Folder, Office2003 dialogs), Console (cmd.exe), Windows Explorer and Total Commander.

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It is based on the code of Miodrag Milic's FavMenu2.

About this fork

This version has the following enhancements:

  • Fix support for Total Commander >= 9.0
  • Add support for explorer of Windows 7/10/11
  • Add support for open/save dialog of Windows Vista/7
  • Add support for Double Commander >= 0.9.6
  • Add support for Xplorer2 (lite) & XYplorerFree
  • Add support for WinSCP
  • Add support for 7zFM
  • Add support for GNU Emacs, XEmacs & MicroEmacs-jasspa
  • Add support for mintty/rxvt on Cygwin/Msys (only SetPath, no GetPath)
  • For unsupported applications/dialogs, try to parse window title to get current path
  • Add some actions for 'current path': 'Copy current path', 'Command Prompt Here', 'Open in File Manager'

If you have any question about this fork, please concat me http://github.com/bamanzi/favmenu2-pv

Usage

Menu of your favorites folders & applications

You can create & edit a menu with Editor.exe. Possible menu items are:

  • a folder (command: cd <path> for example: cd D:\Documents)
  • executable (command: <path_to_exe> for example: notepad.exe or d:\tools\gfie\gfie.exe) (in fact, any file could be added)

Note that environment variables could be used in command, for example: cd %APPDATA%\Google\Chrome.

You can also use Total Commander's Directory Hotlist as the menu, just set path of TC's wincmd.ini as FavMenu's menu definition ini file, in Setup->Configuration. In this case, You can use TC plugin path in the command, for example: cd \\\Uninstaller\ or cd \\\Registry\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Sofware

Bring up the menu

When you want to jump to one of your favorite folder, just bring up the menu. To do this, you need to set a system-wide hotkey in Setup->Configuration.

If current application/dialog is supported by FavMenu, it would let the application jump to the folder you clicked. Otherwise, it would open that folder in the default file manager (which is configurable in Setup->Configuration).

Advanced Usage

The menu:

  • Ctrl+Enter on menu item: open properties dialog for the menu item
  • Shift+Enter on menu item: open selected folder in new tab (if target application supports this)
  • Ctrl+Shift+Enter on menu item: send path of selected item to active window

Pseudo variables in path:

FavMenu supports Total Commander's pseudo variables, such as $DESKTOP, $PERSONAL, refer Includes/pseudo.ahk for detailed info.

Similar software

  • FolderMenu http://foldermenu.sourceforge.net/
    • pros: easy to add simple applications (which has a editable address bar); you can have another menu besides TC's hot dirs; open source; written in AutoIt (which is very much like VBscript, syntax is not so weired as AutoHotKey)
    • cons: some concepts are a little anonying, such as menu 1, 2 & 1.5; although open source, source code can't be successfuly built.
  • FlashFolder http://flashfolder.sourceforge.net/
    • pros:
    • cons: only system dialogs supported; windows vista & 7+ not supported; you need administrator privilege to install it
  • Listary
    • pros: it has more features
    • cons: not open source
  • Direct Folders http://codesector.com/directfolders

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