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  • Emaroo 5.1.0 - Support for Typora (Markdown Editor)

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this release

    • Added: Support for documents and directories most recently opened in Typora.

    About Typora

    Typora (https://typora.io/) is a fantastic markdown editor available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The first thing you will notice is that the live preview is not a side-by-side split view like in other editors. You can use Typora both like a WYSIWYG editor (with many usual hotkeys like Ctrl+B for bold, Ctrl+I for italic, Ctrl+K for links) and as a text editor that you type the raw Markdown code into.

    This is what the display looks like when the text cursor is inside the Markdown code for a link:

    As soon as you move the text cursor outside the link, the Markdown code disappears:

    Creating tables is an absolute highlight. You simply type the column headers in Markdown…

    …press Enter, and you get an interactive table editor:

    In addition to the solid core mechanics, Typora offers extensive export options (HTML, PDF, DOCX, and many more), theme support, and a constantly growing feature set while keeping the UI distraction-free.

    Typora is a commercial product at a very fair price ($14.99 plus taxes for up to three devices, 15-day trial phase). And no, I am not paid to write this, I am just a happy user.

    For more information, see the website at https://typora.io/.

  • Emaroo 5.0.0 - Support for Adobe CC 2023

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this release

    • Added: Support for Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign CC 2022.
    • Changed: Start menu folder renamed to just “Emaroo”.

  • Emaroo 4.9.0 - Support for Visual Studio Code 1.64

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this Release

    • Updated: Support for Visual Studio Code 1.64 (changes regarding most recently used folders/workspaces). Previous versions of Visual Studio Code are still supported.

  • Emaroo 4.8.0 - Support for Visual Studio 2022 / Adobe CC 2022

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this Release

    • Added: Support for Visual Studio 2022.           
    • Added: Support for Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign CC 2022.

    • Changed: Emaroo no longer looks for Adobe CC versions prior to 2020 by default. This does not affect support for CS6 versions.

      If you still need support for older CC versions, you can enable it as follows:

      • Close Emaroo
      • Start Notepad as Administrator
      • Open the file Emaroo.exe.config in the installation directory (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Weigelt\Emaroo)
      • Set SearchForOldAdobeCCApplications option to True
      • Save the config file and start Emaroo.

  • Emaroo 4.7.0 - Support for VS Code 1.55

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this Release

    • Updated: Support for Visual Studio Code 1.55 (changes regarding list of most recently used folders/workspaces). Previous versions of Visual Studio Code are still supported.

  • Launch Windows Terminal from Emaroo

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions! 

    Download Emaroo on www.roland-weigelt.de/emaroo

    Custom action for Windows Terminal

    This custom action will open the Windows Terminal in the directory of the currently selected item (tested with Preview v0.9.433.0)

    20200219_WT_Use

    How to add the custom action

    Copy the following text into the clipboard:

    §§!F5[*J,mvXzzR?kMYxAy.pM#x1FkZTe*n?d3a#u^[?N^ZKFdQKYe|}Qt?atakKFwNwoCXCJX*iF;lO
tCo57uK:568nq7LG*=^ctZtQ5k6!,cjG5C2M6*snN,D48|-q:y01mlN^y(rkgxt~A_]mYA3ZkY6!fKX5
;WsSVpA^]I|+#|E%:DJ_LGLP.2*$M3Ad2~]cow]pWH!o!!§§

    Open Emaroo and click on the “20200219_WT_SettingsIcon” icon to switch to the settings tab.

    Emaroo recognizes the text in the clipboard as a custom action and lets you paste it into the list of actions for the selected application (in this case Visual Studio Community 2019).

    20200219_WT_Paste1

    Here’s the result:

    20200219_WT_Paste2


    How to use the custom action

    On the tab with the application’s most recently used items, the custom action is either available via the context menu of the item (shown in the first screenshot) or at the bottom of the window:

    20200219_WT_Action1

    You can either click it:

    20200219_WT_Action2

    Or press Ctrl+<number> (in this case Ctrl+1).


    How to edit the custom action

    Right-click the custom action to open the context menu or switch to the settings tab and select the custom action. In both cases, click the “20200219_WT_EditIcon” icon to open the edit dialog:

    20200219_WT_Edit

    Note: At the time of this writing, checking “Run as administrator” does not work for Windows Terminal (see issue #3145 on microsoft/terminal).

  • Emaroo: How to Get Visual Studio Code’s New Icon

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on the MRU items! And all this with just a few keystrokes or mouse clicks.

    Emaroo vs. Icons

    The May 2019 update for Visual Studio Code (version 1.35) features a new application icon. After installing the update, Emaroo will continue to use the old icon, though.

    20190606_VSCodeBefore

    This is because Emaroo caches the icons of executables (as well as those of MRU files and folders) for a faster startup.

    To get the new icon, switch to the “settings” page…

    20190606_Settings

    …and click “Refresh icons” in the bottom right corner:

    20190606_RefreshIcons

    Confirm you want to restart Emaroo…

    20190606_Restart

    …and the new icon (which is not exactly dramatically different) will appear after Emaroo has refreshed the icons:

    20190606_VSCodeAfter

  • Emaroo 4.4 – Support for Visual Studio 2019

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this Release

    • Added: Support for Visual Studio 2019.
    • Added: The “run or read” feature (Ctrl+R) now also supports “.lnk” files.
      Fixed: Single files not appearing in Visual Studio Code’s MRU list.

  • Emaroo 4.3.2 – Support for VS Code 1.32

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this Release

    • Updated: Support for Visual Studio Code 1.32 (changes regarding of most recently used folders/workspaces). Previous versions of Visual Studio Code are still supported.
      Fixed: The MRU list for Notepad++ remained empty if the configuration file config.xml is not a valid XML file. This problem was already (kind of) addressed in 4.0.0, but now Emaroo performs a more thorough cleanup of the XML file. To be clear: Emaroo only reads the file, it does not write to it at any point. The file corruption is caused by Notepad+++ itself, which doesn't seem to have problems with it.
      Fixed: Custom actions without any file or directory macros for the currently selected MRU item did not work if the MRU list was empty.

  • Emaroo 4.3 – Support for Adobe CC 2019 / VS Code 1.28

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    Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, VS Code, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and more. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy them (and their path) to the clipboard - or run your own tools on files and folders with custom actions!

    About this Release

    • Added: Support for Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign CC 2019.
    • Updated: Support for Visual Studio Code 1.28 (changes regarding of most recently used files). Previous versions of Visual Studio Code are still supported.

    • Changed: Emaroo no longer looks for Photoshop/Illustrator CC versions prior to 2018 by default. This does not affect support for CS6 versions (which some users keep for compatibility reasons).

      If you still need support for older CC versions, you can enable it as follows:

      • Close Emaroo
      • Start Notepad as Administrator
      • Open the file Emaroo.exe.config in the installation directory (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Weigelt\Emaroo)
      • Set SearchForOldAdobeCCApplications option to True
      • Save the config file and start Emaroo.