Hello,
I have been looking at JP Software's products for many, many years, but never got around to actually try them myself.
This week I changed that by buying a Take Commander license, having so much faith in the product, that I didn't even try the demo before-hand.
It really looks like I made the right choice, I am enjoying many of its features and learning new ones every day. I really try to configure it so that it works "my way" as much as possible and I was surprised how easy (even fun, with all the experimenting involved and changing/trying different ways of working) it is to override default choices and settings.
I think TC and especially TCC would lend themselves for a subject of a good book, maybe a self-published one. I'm sure there are so many commands, features , options that I won't know about until somebody would demonstrate them to me. Maybe if I ever become a TCC power user, I'd consider such a project. Blog posts or other on-line articles will also be a big help, so if anyone has recommendations for new users, I'd love to hear them!
Not everything is clear to me (which, at this point, is hardly any surprise), my biggest problem is that tab-completion does not seem to work when I retrieve a command from the history. Say I first did "DIR C:\PROGRAM FILES", realizing I want to see the content of, say, the "AMD" sub-directory, I'd expect to press up and then tab, to continue the completion, but instead of listing the first directory of C:\Program Files, the program beeps. The only way I found to do what I want is to clear and completely manually re-enter the command. That's not what I'm used to when using Linux, or even Windows' CMD. Did one of my configuration changes blow up this feature, or is it supposed to work this way?
Some other minor things that I observed during these first days:
Kind regards from The Netherlands,
Vincent
Best regards from The Netherlands,
Vincent
I have been looking at JP Software's products for many, many years, but never got around to actually try them myself.
This week I changed that by buying a Take Commander license, having so much faith in the product, that I didn't even try the demo before-hand.
It really looks like I made the right choice, I am enjoying many of its features and learning new ones every day. I really try to configure it so that it works "my way" as much as possible and I was surprised how easy (even fun, with all the experimenting involved and changing/trying different ways of working) it is to override default choices and settings.
I think TC and especially TCC would lend themselves for a subject of a good book, maybe a self-published one. I'm sure there are so many commands, features , options that I won't know about until somebody would demonstrate them to me. Maybe if I ever become a TCC power user, I'd consider such a project. Blog posts or other on-line articles will also be a big help, so if anyone has recommendations for new users, I'd love to hear them!
Not everything is clear to me (which, at this point, is hardly any surprise), my biggest problem is that tab-completion does not seem to work when I retrieve a command from the history. Say I first did "DIR C:\PROGRAM FILES", realizing I want to see the content of, say, the "AMD" sub-directory, I'd expect to press up and then tab, to continue the completion, but instead of listing the first directory of C:\Program Files, the program beeps. The only way I found to do what I want is to clear and completely manually re-enter the command. That's not what I'm used to when using Linux, or even Windows' CMD. Did one of my configuration changes blow up this feature, or is it supposed to work this way?
Some other minor things that I observed during these first days:
- The Explorer feature is not really integrated well with rest of the product (no right-click shortcuts to the "Viewer" or "Editor" for example)
- Explorer's textbox with the path is serviceable, but having clickable breadcrumbs would be better (especially because of the missing "move up" one directory button, but I saw that was already addressed in a different forum post)
- When clicking the "View" option in the "Tools" menu, nothing happens after selecting a file
- No "Word wrap" feature in the Viewer? Even Notepad has this
- Nitpick: The File Explorer has no menu icon. I wanted a one-click button to view/hide it and was happy to see I could add it to the toolbar at the top of TCC window, but having the full word "File Explorer" looks a bit silly in my toolbar (since all other entries are icons)
- Nitpick: I love the supplied Editor and Viewer, just wished their appearance would match with each other and TCC itself, so that it would feel more like one single, integrated product
- Would be nice to define my own list of pre-defined "Apps" for the "Run..." window (I generally only want to use the newer "pwsh" PowerShell 7, instead of the old "powershell" Powershell)
Kind regards from The Netherlands,
Vincent
Best regards from The Netherlands,
Vincent