npp-explorer-plugin
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Enhancement / New feature Request: replace the current Explorer title bar with an editable address bar and Explore selection feature
The plugin is interesting and I wish to suggest few little enhancements to it:
- Replace the current Npp-Explorer-plugin title bar with an editable address bar where the user can copy/cut/paste the address to go to the path of interest
- Subdivide the above address bar in clickable path "slices", one "slice" per directory level (or path depth). So for example if the user is Exploring a deep path like c:\dir\subdir1\subdir2\subdir3\subdir4...\subdirN, each part between \ and \ is clickable to open that path.
- An Explore Selection new feature that allows to click or to right click on a path inside the text content into the opened file to open it in Npp-Explorer-plugin. this feature should be able to open absolute paths and also relative paths: npp-explorer-plugin should simply add the selected string from the text file to the path of the same text file (without the file name of course) and open it for example
- *c:\dir\subdir1\subdir2\subdir3\subdir4...\subdirN* is the file path and the selected text is anotherSubdir\ anotherfilename.txt, the plugin gets the path and the selected text and concatenate it as c:\dir\subdir1\subdir2\subdir3\subdir4...\subdirN\anotherSubdir\ anotherfilename.txt and opens the file in N++. If the file c:\dir\subdir1\subdir2\subdir3\subdir4...\subdirN\anotherSubdir\ anotherfilename.txt doesn't exist, a warning is shown to the user and the operation is aborted.