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"Open in regedit" not working for registry values #135

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KP version: 2.9.8

step to reproduce:

  • select registry value (for example: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\Path)
  • press enter or select "open in regedit" action

current behaviour:
Nothing happens

expected behaviour:
KP opens Regedit with the parent path of the registry value preselected

Item properties:

  label:           Path
  args:            
  short_desc:      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\Path
  target:          HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\Path
  category:        #1002 (1002)
  args_hint:       forbidden
  hit_hint:        ignore
  plugin:          RegBrowser.RegBrowser
  item_id:         4536005466807626655
  loop_on_suggest: false
  data_bag:

A little bit of debugging show that, KP silently fails in the _readable_key method with an OSError [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified.

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