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Ryan1729/Add Alacritty to Context Menu.reg

Created November 25, 2018 22:46
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A .reg file adding a call to a command, (in this case alacritty.exe) to the windows explorer context menu and passing it the current directory
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Add Alacritty to Context Menu.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; created by Ryan Wiedemann
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; right-clicking directly on a directory
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\alacrittymenu]
@="Open Alacritty Here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\alacrittymenu\command]
@="C:\\\\home\\\\bin\\\\alacritty.exe --working-directory %L"
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; right-clicking on the background
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; The knowledge that we need "NoWorkingDirectory"=""
; and %V in this case comes from here
; https://stackoverflow.com/a/4902253/4496839
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\alacrittymenu]
@="Open Alacritty Here"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\alacrittymenu\command]
@="C:\\\\home\\\\bin\\\\alacritty.exe --working-directory %V"
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