Feature Request: Portable keynavish

[snowman]

Thank you for the development of the Windows port of keynav, I want to make this tool available on scoop repos.

I want to load keynavrc config on the same location where keynavish.exe is located first, then other places, this makes it portable

And release compressed file including executable keynavish.exe and keynavrc default config

or provide command-line arg --install-config <filename> to install config then exit, so without packaging with keynavrc default config, and release single executable like before

[lesderid]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to find some time to look into it.

[lesderid]

Apologies for the delay.

Would it be sufficient if keynavish would just load keynavrc from the working directory first? Or is there some reason it should install the config somewhere as you suggested?

There already is a default config included (when no config exists), but it is different from the keynavrc file in the repository. (This matches the original keynav.)

[lesderid]

Would it be sufficient if keynavish would just load keynavrc from the working directory first?

This was implemented in v1.5.0 (https://github.com/lesderid/keynavish/commit/ab028cf6d8bddb45a26d4f34615c870b32ec6e3a).

[snowman]

No, do not read from current working directory.

If you install portable applications into USB drive, you can carry the USB drive around to run applications on different computers out of the box, the file structures may looks like:

E:
└── apps
    ├── keynavish
    │   ├── keynavish.exe
    │   └── keynavrc
    ├── listary
    │   └── listary.exe
    ├── totalcommander
    │   └── totalcmd64.exe
    └── shortcuts
        ├── keynavish.lnk
        ├── listary.lnk
        └── totalcmd64.lnk

And by add path E:\apps\shortcuts to environment variable PATH, you could type the name of shortcut in anywhere to run an app.

  set PATH=%PATH%;E:\apps\shortcuts

If keynavish reading config from current working directory, you have to change the working directory where config stores before you run the app, otherwise the config would not be loaded, which is a bit inconvenient.

In Windows system, most portable program saves/reads the config to/from the same directory where program is.

[lesderid]

In Windows system, most portable program saves/reads the config to/from the same directory where program is.

This is now implemented in v1.6.0.