Feature Request: Default Action

[badWithUsername]

What do you think about having the option for LL to execute a default action on text in the input box if no matches are found for it and/or upon a hotkey press?

I, for one, would use it send the text to cmd or run.

[lintalist]

It wouldn't be that difficult to add, but you could probably just as easily create a new bundle, say we call it AlwaysRunBundle.txt and add that to the AlwaysLoadBundle setting. And make a snippet of Part1 + Script that uses Part1 - if you press the hotkey you defined you get an inputbox and do with it what you want - because it is always loaded due to AlwaysLoadBundle it should work everywhere and probably a tad faster as it bypasses the heavy 'search gui'

- LLPart1: [[input=Enter Command]]
  LLPart2: 
  LLKey: ^f12
  LLShorthand: 
  LLScript: #NoEnv
[[llpart1]]
MsgBox % llpart1

[badWithUsername]

Maybe, but if you're using Lintalist as a launcher (like I am), the convenience is having a single familiar gui to start from for almost everything you do. (For a person who is bad at multitasking, but forced to do it by profession, a single gui starting point such as this is a very Zen thing to have.) .... [edited to remove email addresses] ...

[lintalist]

OK but how do you decide what and where it should go? Should it always launch a script e.g.
run whateveryoutyped or something else, how to select what to do with the text you entered?

I can imagine you can prepare an INI file with "Actions" so you enter text, say "ping 127.0.0.1", you hit enter and a menu? or the Choice plugin Gui pops up and you select

AHK: ping 127.0.0.1
CMD: ping 127.0.0.1
Google: ping 127.0.0.1

and the ini looking something like this

[ahk]
code=Run %query%
[cmd]
code=runwait %comspec% /k %query%
[google]
code=Run google.ahk %query% 

[badWithUsername]

Yes, I think it would be user-configurable such that the user could point LL to an ahk file which would use the contents of the input as a_arg[1]. I personally would create an ahk file that would take that and pass it to run, % a_arg[1]. But I don't think you'd want it more elaborate than that. So, say you configured LL to have a "default handler" of "c:\ahk\run.ahk". Then, assume you typed "iexplore.exe" into the LL input and no hits matched. Then you press enter. Then LL would execute a tmp script as "run, c:\ahk\run.ahk "iexplore.exe""

[lintalist]

I can add it but will do so using three hidden settings as I think it won't be used by the average user.

• QueryAction = 0 or 1 (off/on)
• QueryScript = path to script to run e.g. RunQuery.ahk %query%
• QueryHotkey = optional hotkey, e.g. F12

[lintalist]

Make a backup of lintalist.ahk and include\readini.ahk just in case, unpack files with folder structure to lintalist folder, restart, edit settings.ini and change QueryAction=0 to QueryAction=1 and restart.

Open lintalist search, type something, press F12 and it will run RunQuery.ahk passing on what you typed. If you type something and there are no results and hit enter it will do the same. If there are results it will of course use the first of selected snippet

So you will have to modify RunQuery.ahk to your liking of course but in principle it should work.

📁 lintalist-runquery.zip

Somewhat related: https://github.com/lintalist/lintalist/blob/master/plugins/readme-howto.txt#L129