NOOPad for Notes

[Joe Caverly]

NOOP is a command available in the 4UTILS plugin.

The purpose of the command is to do nothing.

The 4UTILS plugin can be downloaded from ftp://vefatica.net/4plugins/X64/4utils64.zip

Along with HISTORY, I use the NOOP command as a NOOPad for simple one line notes.

For example;

v readme.txt
noop USD $59.97 CAN $79.02 2023-06-28
sandbox.wsb
noop item number:404296918353
type clip:

Commands that I type are saved in my HISTORY list.

I use a Global History list in TCC.

To display all NOOPs;

history | ffind /kvme"^noop "

returns...

noop USD $59.97 CAN $79.02 2023-06-28
noop item number:404296918353

I can also view my NOOPs by displaying a popup window of the command history by pressing PageUp.

First, type;

noop

at the command line, and then press the PageUp key.

These are notes that I do not desire to keep, so I don't care if they are retained.

I find this easier to use from the command line than the Windows 10 Sticky Notes app.

YMMV

Joe

 

[vefatica]

That's novel! I only wrote NOOP for use in timing things, figuring it would be pretty fast. No doubt, there are countless aliases that do nothing which you could use for stashing notes in the history. I'm curious whether you can find one as fast as NOOP using internals. I never tried very hard. Here's one that seems harmless.

v:\> alias nooop `echo > nul`

v:\> nooop Note to self

v:\> history | tail /n 2
nooop Note to self
history | tail /n 2