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# Editor Commands

This section describes the options presented under the Editors Tab of the preferences dialog.

Geeqie includes ten entries that can be used for executing other applications or shell commands with the selected image. These commands are accessible by menu and keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts use Ctrl + 1 through Ctrl + 0, which correspond to lines one through ten in the preferences dialog.

Menu name

  This field is used to represent the command in the menus of Geeqie, it is intended to describe the application or function that results from executing the command in the Command Line field.

  External command Copy/Move/Rename/Delete/New Folder allows to specify commands to use for these operations. When set, internal operations will be disabled and these commands used instead.

Command Line

  This field is the command to execute. Several macros are available to position image file names within the command. If no macro is specified, the behavior will be to append the filenames onto the end of the command (the result will be the same as “command %f”).

  Macro | Description
  %f | Inserts list of selected files, may occur only once.
  %p | Command is executed once for each selected file, may occur multiple times.
  %v | Display the result of the command in an output window. Must occur as the first two characters, or immediately after the “%w” macro.
  %V | Like %v above, but when used with %p, only displays output window when multiple files are selected; The output of a single file is suppressed.
  %w | Prevent full screen from deactivating when command is executed. Must occur as the first two characters.
  %% | This will be replaced by one '%'. This is the way to escape '%'.
  %d | This only makes sense for external commands like copy or move as this is replaced by the destination.

Help button

  Displays reference list of the supported command macros.

Defaults button

  Resets all commands to the default settings, discarding any customizations made by the user.

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