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Dev Documentation of PowerToys Run (#7333) 
* Architecture and  (#7267)

* Added debugging steps for PT Run

* Updated architecture markdown for launcher

* updated project architecture markdown for launcher

* Added telemetry docs for launcher

* Added the basic folder structure and files

* Added a basic overview of all common functionalities of the plugins

* Added information about the functioning of the calculator plugin

* update score section of overview

* added information about the uri plugin

* added info about the indexer plugin

* Added the documentation for the indexer plugin

* Added information about the program plugin

* Added info about the shell plugin

* updated some plugin info and added information about the ww plugin

* documenting the folder plugin

* updated window walker docs

* dev docs for the folder plugin

* added images to each of the plugins

* Added link to pt run documents

* fix typos and some minor corrections

* Add table of contents for pt run dev docs

* Fix image path and project link for Wox.plugin

Co-authored-by: Divyansh Srivastava <somm14divi@gmail.com>
2020-10-20 14:28:23 -07:00

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Shell Plugin

  • Shell plugin emulates the Windows Run Prompt (Win+R).
  • Shell Plugin is one of the non-global plugins which has an action keyword set to >.

Image of Shell plugin

Functionality

  • The Shell command expands environment variables, so >%appdata% works as expected.
  • On inheriting the Shell plugin from Wox, there are three different ways of executing a command, using the command prompt, powershell or the run prompt. To uphold the name of PT Run, the Shell plugin always executes commands as the Run prompt would.
  • The Shell plugin has a concept of history where the previously executed commands show up in the drop down list along with the number of times they have been executed.
  • The Run prompt has the folder plugin function where we can navigate to different locations and entering the path to a directory displays all the sub-directories. To prevent reimplementing this logic, the shell plugin references the folder plugin to implement this functionality.

Score

The Shell plugin results have a very high score of 5000. Hence, they are one of the first results in the list.