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@Steven P See what this does. again will use default browser. (startapp "explorer.exe" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ") So above can be (defun c:GetGoogle ( / Search Page) (setq Search (getstring "Enter Serch Term: [use '+' between terms] ")) ;; get search term, '+' between words (setq Page (strcat "https://www.google.com/search?q=" Search)) ;; google + search term address (startapp "explorer.exe" page) ) -edit didn't have the exe

actually quite nice Steven , think I'm gonna add this to one of my toolbars (if there's still room that is...) for opening things I also like : https://lee-mac.com/open.html

Didn't have the exe in the startapp line so maybe thats why?

also shell commands - I've only used that once though: (defun c:GetGoogle ( / SearchTerm PageBase) (setq SearchTerm (getstring "Enter Serch Term: [use '+' between terms] ")) ;; get search term, '+' between words (setq PageBase "(command \"shell\" \"start microsoft-edge:http://google.com/search?q=") ;; google address (setq Page (strcat PageBase SearchTerm "\")" )) ;; google + search term address (eval (read Page)) ;; open 'Page' ) Guess what this does....

This will search a location for a file type, in the example searching for LISP files in c:\MyLocation\Here - remember to use a double backslash in any location, and return a list of files names + extensions (also folders if the file type is *.*). (setq myfiles (vl-directory-files "C:\\MyLocation\\Here" "*.lsp" nil)) You could do a search of this list to check if your required file is in there As MHUPP use startapp to open the file, here opens the file in variable Lispfile with notepad (startapp "notepad" Lispfile) MHUPP example was for explorer - I didn't know that method would work for any file type to open the default programme. For the first line here, your file path could be contained in a list, looping through each list item (location) until you find the file you want - could search a few locations if you knew them and want to hardcode them in the LISP, and if fails to find them there use MHUPPs 'getfiled' line for the user to select a folder or file. Use an if, cond or while loop to open the file where it finds it and stop the rest of the loop from looping

I did write something once to find and launch documents but its a little over the top probably. But Bigal also had a good suggestion , a program called everything.

Thanks for the answers. They're really very interesting. And I really liked @Steven P's Lisp for searching on Google In response to Ciberangel, I must say that I often need to edit acad.lsp and other AutoCAD support files, and I really feel like I'm wasting a lot of time doing that. Additionally, I almost always need to open Access databases that contain information related to the drawings I manage. I also manage photo banks with standardized names that I need to reference on the fly in my drawings. For these reasons, a tool to search and open these files will save me a lot of time.

Didn't quite work for me - opened explorer and went to a folder - not sure why yet ... actually, take away the '/watch?v....." and it works, probably just your dodgy youtube viewing habits..

Had a command DIR to start in the folder of the active drawing would open the save prompt like window to allow you to select the file you want. pretty sure if you feed the path to explorer it will use the default program to open the file. (defun C:DIR ( / filePath) (setq dwgPath (getvar "DWGPREFIX")) (setq filePath (getfiled "Select a File to Open" dwgPath "*" 0)) ;limit what types you see by changing "*" (if filePath (progn (startapp "explorer.exe" filePath) (princ (strcat "\nOpening: " filePath)) ) (princ "\nNo file selected.") ) (princ) ) -edit You can also hard code where it stats in like if your documents are in a network drive. (setq filePath (getfiled "Select a Spec File" "C:\\Project\\spec\\" "PDF" 0)) ;look in spec folder for all pdf's

If it's not exclusively AutoCAD files, you may be better off using a system tool. What kinds of files would you be looking for? What parameters would you be searching with? What editors would you be opening them with? The more you can tell us, the better we can help you.

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