About the project

The description editor plugin (DescEdit) is a FAR Manager plugin allowing to edit file descriptions in the FAR internal editor. It also supports extracting descriptions from archives. It is an example plugin for FARPlus, and its full source code is available.

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You can download DescEdit 2.5 either as a ready to use DLL or as source code.

• The DescEdit plugin (57K)
• Plugin source code (44K)
• FARPlus version 20020506 (79K, required to compile the source code)
• View DescEdit source code in CVS

Version history

Version 2.5 (06.03.2002)

     [!] DescEdit no longer supports versions of FAR earlier than 1.60.
     [+] Now new descriptions are created (and archive descriptions are
         extracted) for all selected files, not only for the current
         file.
     [+] Added possibility to copy and paste descriptions. This allows
         to duplicate the same description for multiple selected files.
     [*] DescEdit now honors the FAR option "Set Hidden attribute to new
         description lists." (Requested by Sergeii Golovatov).
     [-] Fixed problems with showing the error message about incorrect
         path to MultiArc. (Reported by Sergeii Golovatov)
     [-] Some strings were missing from the Russian .LNG file supplied
         with version 2.03. (Reported by Sergeii Golovatov)
     [-] DescEdit couldn't locate the file description correctly if
         it was separated from the file name with the tab character.
         (Reported by Sergeii Golovatov)

Version 2.03 (07.01.2002)

     [!] The source code of the plugin is now available under LGPL.
     [*] Now the plugin works correctly when MultiArc is located not in the
         adjacent directory but in some other place. A setting to explicitly
         specify the path to MultiArc has been added. If MultiArc is not
         found, an appropriate error message is shown.
         (Reported by Ivan Sintyurin, 2:5020/278.22)
     [-] No error message was shown if the plugin failed to create or
         update the description file (for example, when it had the Read-only
         attribute set).
     [+] New option "Prompt for description file". When this option is enabled
         and multiple description file names are specified in the
         configuration dialog, a menu is shown allowing to specify the
         description file to be used.

Version 2.02 (24.01.2001)

     [-] Fixed crash when setting the "Extract descriptions from archives"
         checkbox and trying to extract the description from an archive in the
         same FAR session. (Thanks to Ivan Sintyurin and others.)
     [-] Fixed crash when no description files were specified in the plugin
         configuration. Now it is mandatory to specify at least one file.
     [-] Fixed duplicate hotkeys in the Russian configuration dialog. (Reported
         by Ivan Sintyurin, 2:5020/278.22)
     [*] Changed the defaults of some settings to more reasonable values.

History for earlier plugin versions can be found in the file HistoryE.txt included in the plugin archive.