have the abilitly to open an Everything search in everything things own window.

[indigofairyx]

I almost never use the explorer functions in flow, for a couple reasons,

• 1 my computer has 9 hdds with 20tbs, there's far too much to search clearly in flows limited view [if I only had a c:\Drive then yes it be fun for simple media searches]

• 2 my two file mangers Directory Opus and Everything 1.5a are highly configured with multiple custom macros each for bouncing these collections and metadata back n fourth with there own one-touch hotkeys ScrLk & Pause

I just tonight noticed that everythings syntax and a macros work in the flow search bar... 😄 including my custom macros! ❤️

which leads me to a thought of being able to set a hotkey, or string, such as, EV %Search String%, so if what I'm looking for is not in the top area, or, if there are more results that flow will return.... enter the hotkey that will open Everything 1.5a with the Edit box filled in with the %Search String%.

that would be awesome!!!

I think there could be a few ways to do it, hotkey, or from a context menu option, or a double enter from the search box.

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a few addion nuggets as an example. I've been playing with AutoHotKey the past year. I'm a complete noob & amateur. In the past month I just worked out how to send search strings to everything from my own gui edit box I've been playing with, and\or from selected text.

the code will look different, obvious y'all are not using autohotkey, but ill put my code below, as an example cause its rather simple. hopefully it can spark a thought for you if you like the sound of this.

this is main search box from the screenshot, I also have it it hotkeyed to copy and search selected text and to search my System Index by sending pretty much the same same as below but with EVs syntax wrapped around the %Search String%... sendraw, si*: "%Find%" shows up in the edit box as... si*: "flow launcher" which returns 1031 files, more flow will show, my SI is isolated my C:, that would triple system wide.

Having this option to launch EV with the search string in place would be incredibly useful to many of us.

thanks
Xavier

Buttonfindev_Command:
gui, submit, nohide
sleep 75
runeverything() {
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
IfWinExist, Everything 1.5
{
	WinActivate, Everything 1.5
	WinWait, ahk_exe Everything64.exe
	Sleep 200
	ControlSend, , ^{L}  ;this activates the search bar if its not already selected
}
 else {
	Run, \Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe
}
return
}
sleep 300
sendraw, %Find%
return

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[nanoraptor]

Until it's integrated into Flow Launcher, there's a simple workaround:

Install the Plugin "Plugin Runner".
Configure the Plugin Runner as follows:

You can set the action keyword to * and shortcut to " \ ", which is likely your default. After entering your query in Flow's search bar, you can access everything by pressing shift+space and enter (if you are at the first result) or alt+end and enter (if you are anywhere else in the results).

Here's how it loooks like (I use the * as the shortcut):

Screen_Recording.mp4