d-edge / extlauncher

ExtLauncher is a dotnet tool to search and launch quickly projects in the user's preferred applications.

extLauncher is a dotnet tool to search and launch quickly projects in the user's preferred application. extLauncher is maintained by folks at D-EDGE.

Getting Started

Install extLauncher as a global dotnet tool

dotnet tool install extLauncher -g

or as a dotnet local tool

dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install extLauncher

Usage

USAGE:
    extLauncher [OPTIONS]

EXAMPLES:
    extLauncher index *.sln
    extLauncher index "(.*)[.](fs|cs)proj$" --regex
    extLauncher launcher mylauncher set execpath
    extLauncher launcher mylauncher remove
    extLauncher launcher vscode set /usr/bin/code --choose file --args="-r %s"
    extLauncher launcher vscode set "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.cmd" --choose directory
    extLauncher launcher explorer set explorer.exe --choose directory

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help    Prints help information

COMMANDS:
    prompt             (default command) Type to search. Arrows Up/Down to navigate. Enter to launch. Escape to quit
    index <pattern>    Indexes all files recursively with a specific pattern which can be a wildcard (default) or a regular expression
    launcher <name>    Add, update or remove a launcher (optional)
    deindex            Clears the current index
    info               Prints the current pattern and all the indexed files
    refresh            Updates the current index

Build locally

• Clone the repository
• Open the repository
• Invoke the tool by running the dotnet tool run command: dotnet tool run extLauncher (with your arguments)

Caches and data generated by extLauncher

This tool maintains a database to improve its performance. You should be able to find it in the most obvious place for your operating system:

• Windows: %appdata%\Roaming\extLauncher\extLauncher.db
• Linux: ~/.config/extLauncher/extLauncher.db

License

MIT

extlauncher's Issues

Configure different launchers

Be able to setup different applications for the launcher

Regex pattern

Be able to choose between Wildcard or Regex pattern

Switch the project to dotnet tool

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-tools-how-to-create

Refresh should keep the trigger counts

Maybe BTW adding also a new command to reset all triggers

`dotnet pack` failed

To reproduce:

dotnet pack

Actual:

Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 17.0.0+c9eb9d
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights 

  Determining projects to restore...
  All projects are up-to-date for restore.
  ExtLauncher -> /home/aloisdg/Source/extLauncheetcoreapp3.1/ExtLauncher.dll
  ExtLauncher -> /home/aloisdg/Source/extLauncheet6.0/ExtLauncher.dll
/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.102/Sdks/Microsoft.NETT.Publish.targets(102,5): error NETSDK1097: It ih an application to a single-file without specif You must either specify a RuntimeIdentifier or false. [/home/aloisdg/Source/extLauncher/ExtLauncher]

Expected:

no error 👍

How to run on Linux

Hello,

Quick guide to run on Linux:

• Git clone
• dotnet publish -c Release -f net6.0 -r linux-x64 --self-contained true
• sudo cp ./ExtLauncher/bin/Release/net6.0/linux-x64/publish/ExtLauncher /usr/local/bin/extLauncher
• Restart your Terminal
• command -v extLauncher should output /usr/local/bin/extLauncher

Tested on Manjaro but should work on your favorite distro too.

Choose between the file, directory or terminal

An option to be able to choose between the file or the file directory and how to pick the displayed name.

Be able to index folders too

Currently only files are indexable.
The idea is to be able to index folders too (e.g. .git).

TBD:

• Should indexing be generic (simpler, searching both files and folders) or explicit via an argument (more verbose, search either for files or folders or both)?
• Which folder should be launched, the one that was found or its parent?
• Should a new feature be implemented in order to separate the item to be indexed and the item to be launched? For instance, search for .git but launch the first .sln.

How should we name this tool?

HTML in the ReadMe

Hello,

We have HTML in NuGet:

We are using strip html:

extLauncher/.github/workflows/build.yml

Line 41 in 2b99889

- name: Strip HTML from README

There is something to check here :)

Add CI/CD

• Build and test
• Publish to Nuget
• Create GitHub Release
• Attach x64 multitarget binaries to the release (Windows / Linux / Mac)