External Tools

These settings configure external tools, which can be invoked by the Open/Edit command, available from Edit menu.

You can link a specific File Patterns to externals tools. A tool is defined by the Operating System Command to be executed, and its Arguments. Arguments are passed to the Command as it would occur from OS command line. Additionally the place holder ${filePath} should be used, which is substituted by the absolute file path of the file (from the file table), on which the command is invoked. You can also choose to run the command in SmartSVN's working directory or in the File's directory.

Example

To configure Acrobat Reader (TM) as the default editor (viewer) for PDF-files, enter *.txt for File Pattern, the path of Acrobat Reader Executable (e.g. on Windows acrord32.exe) for Command and leave ${filePath} for Arguments.

Directory Command

The View|Open command can also be performed on directories. For this case a Directory Command can be configured.

To be able to use View|Open on a directory, you need to Enable Open Directory Command. Then you can configure as for files, the Command which shall be executed and the Arguments to be passed. The directory command will always be executed in the selected directory.

Example

On Windows, to open the command shell for a selected directory, enter cmd.exe for Command and /c start cmd.exe for Arguments.