Is it possible to disable built-in aliases in the "Go" FAYT prompt?

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1

I use the alias feature regularly to navigate around my files.

However, I almost never use the built in aliases and since there are so many of them I often accidentally navigate to the wrong folder because I press return too quickly.

Is it somehow possible to disable them either completely or at least just in the "Go" FAYT prompt?

2

You could turn off everything else under Preferences / Filtering and Sorting / Find-As-You-Type / Folders Mode and use ] instead of /, but it may not be exactly what you want. Folder Mode matches what you type against the target path rather than the alias name.

I think you could get exactly what you want using a FAYT script, though.

3

For anyone having the same problem, I've created a FAYT script to solve it. However, I couldn't figure out how to already open the suggestions when just pressing the activation key, as the function doesn't seem to get called without typing something.

FAYT Go Alias.opusscriptinstall (1.2 KB)

4

I think you can set wantempty on the command to solve that. Have not used this yet myself, but it should work like this:

function OnAddCommands(addCmdData)
{
	var cmd = addCmdData.AddCommand();
	cmd.name = "FAYTExample";
	cmd.method = "OnFAYTExample";
	cmd.desc = "";
	cmd.label = "FAYTExample";
	cmd.template = "";
	cmd.hide = true; // Hide from button editor menus
	cmd.icon = "script";

	var fayt = cmd.fayt;
	fayt.enable = true;
	fayt.key = "_";
	fayt.textcolor = "#000000";
	fayt.backcolor = "#FFFFFF";
	fayt.label = "Example";
//	fayt.flags - optional Map of flags (flag value -> label) - need to use DOpus.Create.Map
	fayt.realtime = true; // Call on each keypress, not just after return
	fayt.wantempty = true; // Call for suggestions on empty input
}
5

Thanks for the tip, but that doesn't seem to work for me.

If you want to reproduce this, simply use my script add the wantempty property and a debug output in the called function. It still only gets called after typing something. Unless I'm understanding something wrong.

6

Hope you add option to disable built-in aliases :frowning:

I'm using SlickRun for a long time and want to copy my folder paths to dopus folder aliases to make things simpler but some of the names already retained by dopus built-in aliases for example : (downloads / music etc...)

Thanks

7

You can already override the built-in aliases, just add a new one with the same name.

Another option, if you're using Opus 13, is FAYT scripts which can work like aliases but show any list of names that point to any folders you want.