Shortcuts - SanDisk Sansa Clip v2 Manual

Chapter 12. Plugins
Viewer Plugin

Shortcuts

Chip-8 Emulator
Frotz
Image Viewer
Lua scripting language
Midiplay
MPEG Player
MP3 Encoder
Rockboy
Search
Sort
Text Viewer
VBRfix
ZXBox
Shopping list
12.3.1. Shortcuts
The Shortcuts Plugin allows you to jump to places within the file browser without having
to navigate there manually. The plugin works with .link files. A .link file is just a
text file with every line containing the name of the file or the directory you want to
quickly jump to. All names should be full absolute names, i.e. they should start with a
/. Directory names should also end with a /.
How to create .link files
You can use your favourite text editor to create a .link file on the PC an then copy
the file to the player. Or you can use the context menu on either a file or a directory in
the file browser tree, and use the "Add to shortcuts" menu option. This will append a
line with the full name of the file or the directory to the shortcuts.link file in the root
directory of the player. (The file will be created if it does not exist yet.) You can later
rename the automatically created shortcuts.link file or move it to another directory
if you wish. Subsequent calls of the context menu will create it again.
How to use .link files, i.e. jump to desired places
To use a .link file just "play" it from the file browser. This will show you a list with the
entries in the file. Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within
the directory selected, or with the file selected in the file browser. You can then play
the file or do with it whatever you want. The file will not be "played" automatically.
If the .link file contains only one entry no list will be shown, you will directly jump
to that location. The file shortcuts.link in the root directory is an exception. After
The Rockbox manual
Associated filetype(s)
.link
.ch8
.z1 - .z8
.bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .png
.lua
.mid, .midi
.mpg, .mpeg, .mpv, .m2v
.wav
.gb, .gbc
.m3u, .m3u8
.*
.txt,.nfo, .*
.mp3
.tap, .tax, .sna, .z80
.shopper
(version 3.14)
Context Menu only
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