XYplorer Beta Club

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Rev. 0.96 / 2014/07/24
 * Now $paper is defined as a base file name, i.e. without extension: ".txt"
   is added silently by the script when needed.

 * Use the Like operator instead of regxmatches() during IPC testing: it is
   now clearer and should be faster too.

 * Tweaked the console commands that load Everything service and client so
   that no invisible cmd.exe processes remain in the background when no
   needed.

 * Tweaked the timing of events during the IPC testing to cope with UAC.

 * Added a fancy status bar indication of how much time you have to wait for
   the script to load Everything service and client.

 * Tweaked the validation of the current path: it is now clearer and should be
   faster too.

 * A previous paper folder could overwrite a new paper folder under certain
   circumstances. Fixed, now paper folders are opened with the same unified
   code, no matter how their results were obtained.

 * Shortened paths in the form "paper:<xypaper>\$paper" to "paper:$paper" for
   better clarity and less (useless) redundancy.

 * Search time is now given with a resolution of 0.1 ms (for the time being…).
   Reason: datediff() doesn't work well with nanoseconds and sometimes gives
   negative results. Also, time is split into two contributes: parsing time
   (within XYplorer environment) and "data retrieval" time (outside XYplorer).

 * Other minor cosmetic syntax and comment changes.

 * Remarks: this version should feel more responsive than the previous one.

Rev. 0.95 / 2014/07/23
 * Added a new customizable parameter: $ipc. If set to TRUE the availability
   of Everything via IPC is tested, i.e. the script checks whether es.exe can
   successfully communicate with Everything and obtain search results, and
   starts Everything service and client if not.

 * Added a new customizable parameter: $diacritics. If set to TRUE (default)
   it matches diacritical marks, therefore a ≠ à. This behaviour can be
   temporarily overridden with the custom switch "-d".

 * Added a new customizable parameter: $loc_aware. If set to TRUE (default) it
   limits the scope of search to the current location and all its subfolders.
   This behaviour can be temporarily overridden with the custom switch "-l".

 * Note: the custom switches above must be placed at the very start of the
         query in order to be recognized, and the last letter must be followed
         by a blank space. They can be compounded and order doesn't matter, so
         "-dl " = "-ld ". However each letter must not be repeated, so "-ll "
         is not valid syntax.

 * Added a new customizable parameter: $unicode. If TRUE it tells es.exe to
   always output the search results to an output file. If set to FALSE instead
   (default), the script will try to read the search results from memory,
   first, but if it finds question marks (the sign of the presence of
   unrecognized Unicode characters) it will trigger the search a second time,
   effectively falling back to a TRUE status of the parameter and roughly
   doubling the execution time. Useful for people who rarely deal with CJK
   characters and can thus gain some speed, especially on low-end machines.

 * $query is now a global variable, making possible to call the script with an
   alias.

 * Added a safety belt: if you pass an empty query you are prompted again to
   enter a search term. Reason: an empty search query tells Everything to list
   all the items in its database, usually tens of thousands of items, making
   subsequent parsing and listing by XYplorer very long.

 * As a consequence of the point above, leading and ending spaces in the "raw"
   $query, i.e. without considering the custom switches, are trimmed. Also,
   leading and ending spaces in the query given through the input() interface
   are trimmed, in order to be consistent with the processing made by XYplorer
   on a search query inserted via an alias.

 * Added search time in the status bar, with a 100-nanosecond resolution. Time
   is measured from the moment the validation of $query starts (line after)
   till XYplorer opens the paper folder tab (line before).

 * Addendum: this is my first script where I use a XOR operation, I feel pro!

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C:\path\everything.exe -svc

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C:\path\everything.exe -startup

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Action
  NewUserButton
Name
  Everything in XYplorer
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  :find
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   load "Everything in XYplorer";
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@?=global $query = "<@1>"; load "Everything in XYplorer";

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writefile("<curitem>", regexreplace(readfile("<curitem>"), "^/\*[\s\S]*?\*/\r\n\r\n|/\*[\s\S]*?\*/|\t.*|^\r\n| ツ"));

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Rev. 0.94 / 2014/07/09
 * Fixed a bug introduced with Rev. 0.93 due to the recent change in the name
   of a variable.

Rev. 0.93 / 2014/07/09
 * Back to a monolithic structure: entirely removed the Purge function. Please
   modify the CTB as per first post of the Everything in XYplorer thread.

 * No longer creates a unique paper folder for each search.

 * No longer attaches the query to the paper folder as a comment.

 * Search results are now opened in a new tab only if you're not currently
   viewing a paper folder created by this script.

Rev. 0.92 / 2014/07/08
 * Still beta status, but not for long.

 * Changed the default base name to "Everything in XYplorer".

 * Optimized the regular expression used to escape the minus signs in Smart
   mode:
   - dropped support for -h and --help, because they don't make any sense in a
   search, so their minus signs are ALWAYS escaped;
   - -n is recognized as a switch ONLY WHEN followed by a blank and one or
   more digits.

 * Swapped the if-then clauses regarding the minus escaping. Since the default
   Smart mode is more likely to be used, having it first in the if block
   should save some microseconds during execution.

 * Added display of the search query in the status bar after the paper folder
   is opened.

 * Search query is now attached to the paper folder as a comment, for future
   reference.

Rev. 0.91 / 2014/07/07
 * Still beta status.

 * Added (lots of) comments.

 * Added "two plus one" modes of escaping the minus sign (-).

 * Escaping of special characters no longer uses regexreplace() but
   replacelist() instead. Easier to read, shorter (saves one line), and maybe
   is faster too.

 * The resulting paper folder is now opened in a new tab, so the current tab
   is no longer lost.

 * Added subscript to delete all the paper folders generated by Everything in
   Xyplorer.

 * Due to the addition above, the script is no longer monolithic but formed by
   two subscripts instead.

Rev. 0.90 / 2014/07/01
 * The first version, a public beta.

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 $es = "C:\Everything\es.exe";                                  //the full path of es.exe executable

 $paper = "<xydata>\Paper\" . "Results" . ".txt";               //the full path of the paper folder containing the search results,
                                                                //ideally you should change the name only. Will be shorter with the upcoming native <xypaper>

 $query = input("Everything in XYplorer ™", "Type your search query as you would in Everything", "Everything is awesome... [it's a movie quote ツ]", "s");

 $list = runret("cmd /c chcp 65001 && $es $query > $paper");    //the core, now the console handles Unicode but won't show it properly, hence
                                                                //runret() can't be used anymore and the old-school redirection is the only way.
                                                                //Any suggestion/help/improvement with quoting is welcome!

 writefile("$paper", readfile("$paper"));                       //trick to convert the BOM-less UTF-8 file created by the console into a UTF-16 LE one with BOM,
                                                                //which XYplorer will read properly (hopefully this will become unnecessary)

 goto paper:$paper;