Not sure where to ask, anyways:
Editing a .BAT file.
Right clicking anywhere in the file body and choosing the topmost context menu item Open File does nothing.
What it purpose is and when would it work?
Context Menu - Open File - Seems Does Nothing
This menu tries to open the file name contained on the current line.What it purpose is and when would it work?
So in this case the current line did not contain a file name and hence the slightly funny menu (maybe it should be grayed out in this case).
To see it work just add a line to the batch file containing a valid file name and you will be able to open that file from within the batch file using this menu.
Cheers Jussi
I think the fix is to change the code to put in the words Unknown when there is no filename found on the line. At least then it will be a bit more consistent.
But the feature is not overly dangerous since if no file is found all you get is a beep and a meassage saying as much.
This menu maps to the FileOpenInclude keyboard function.
I personally use this particular keyboard mapping all the time since it is a very fast way to load files.
But as a long time Brief user I use the keyboard version and hardly ever venture to the popup menu
I suspect somewhere in the past a Zeus user would have asked for this to be added to the popup, as is the history of most of the many different Zeus popup menus
Cheers Jussi
But the feature is not overly dangerous since if no file is found all you get is a beep and a meassage saying as much.
This menu maps to the FileOpenInclude keyboard function.
I personally use this particular keyboard mapping all the time since it is a very fast way to load files.
But as a long time Brief user I use the keyboard version and hardly ever venture to the popup menu
I suspect somewhere in the past a Zeus user would have asked for this to be added to the popup, as is the history of most of the many different Zeus popup menus
Cheers Jussi
Dangerous is an overstatment then, agree, thing s I do not get any kind of notification if the file name is not in the file, well it actually should be the whole path, I guess this menu item is just not to often in use, perhaps should be possible to turn it off. I thought open means run, thus the menu item should be called edit file under cursor or so.
And that is why the words Unknown need to be shown in this case.I do not get any kind of notification if the file name is not in the file
How this feature works is Zeus runs a regexp on the current line looking for a file name and then it tries to load any file found.
You will be seeing the default regep, but you can also provide your own file name regexp via the document type settings.
In fact you only need the short file name for this function to work.well it actually should be the whole path
The behaviour is very smart as it will go looking for the file in many places including document type search paths, workspace search paths or just workspace project locations.
Cheers Jussi