How to pass the file name to the external tool in file context menu

[Jens Dagerbo]

On Monday 24 April 2006 19:04, Vidyasagara Guntaka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using Kdevelop for a long tine now.  It is very cool.
>
> I have a question regarding passing arguments to external tools.  Any
> help is very much appreciated.
>
> When I try to add an external tool to the file context menu, a window
> pops up to fill in the following three fields:
> 1.  Menu Text
> 2.  Executable
> 3.  Parameters
>
> The question I have is this:
>
> If I would like to pass the name of the file in the context to the
> external tool as an argument how do I do that?  I tried %F, %f, %s and
> so on in the parameters field with no success.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sagar.

What you are looking for is %S (capital 'S'). See "what's this"-help (shift+F1 
or the '?' in the windowbar) for the parameter editbox for more options.

// jens

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