EFU Browser

[NotNull]

A long time ago (september 2017) I wrote something for browsing EFU files (a bit similar to Explorer, but without the folder tree).
I had more plans for it, but my time is limited.
So it's time to "dump" it in it's current state. Now someone else can tinker with it

Installation:

• Put Everything.exe in an empty folder.
• Extract "Install EFU Browser.cmd" and "Uninstall EFU Browser.cmd" to that same folder
• Double-click "Install EFU Browser.cmd"
• Done

Usage:

• Double click some .EFU file
  EFU Browser will open
• Click a foldername in the Name column or Path column to go to that folder.
  (Keyboard warriors: ENTER on a folder enters that folder; CTRL-ENTER goes to it's parentfolder)
• That is about it. Just see for yourself to get an impression.

Demo EFU browser.gif (701.71 KiB) Viewed 8061 times

Note
- If you have already have enabled Menu:Tools > Options > General > EFU file association in your regular Everything, you can leave that enabled. The EFU browser file association is 'stronger'.
- No guarantees that it will work properly.

[void]

Tested and it works.

Neat, I never would have thought this would have been possible with Everything.
Thanks for sharing.

[NotNull]

Thanks!
All possible thanks to the extreme configurability of Everything (and some duct tape, and a swiss army knife ).

What amazed me most in playing with this is that nested functions could be used in commands: $parent($parent(%1)) would give the grandparent of %1 !. Didn't use it in the end, but was a nice discovery.


BTW: this is why I suggested showing the current EFU file in the title bar

[sugoro]

This is so neat!

Thank you for sharing it.

[NotNull]

You're welcome!

[Andreas Sachse]

the state says thanks.

[piyo]

The ideas in here are so useful! Thank you!
I'm going to use this for browsing offline volumes saved in an .efu file.

I just figured out that I can use this in the default instance as well. ie. Right click menu > Explore and Explore Path can be configured to do that.

• In Menu > Tools > Options > General > Context Menu, select Explore, and insert the following:

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$exec("C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -sort Path -search "thisdir:"""%1""" ")

(-instance is not needed, but for completeness, the following works:)

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$exec("C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -instance "" -sort Path -search "thisdir:"""%1""" ")

• In Menu > Tools > Options > General > Context Menu, select Explore Path, and insert the following:

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$exec("C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -sort Path -search "thisdir:"""$parent(%1)""" ")

[NotNull]

Fun fact: that is how this all started. I wanted to write something for people to browse their search results.
When too many settings got involved and as Everything is highly configurable, I focused on EFU's to prevent ruining their regular Everything.