Hello,
I want to use and run es.exe, in order to avoid Everything's main window's search bar; the reason for this: According to my respective search situation, I have some "base" search conditions, plus individual, specific search conditions: the former remain stable for multiple searches, the latter have to be individualized for every search.
So I want to write my own "search bar", in AutoHotkey, with in fact 2 bars in the dialog, one for the "stable" conditions, and one (which has focus) for the individual ones; the AutoHotkey part is not too difficult.
But I don't really grasp the EV / ES part of the task, I have thoroughly read the help file, but nothing works. Thus:
a) Is it possible to redirect the everything.exe search results into the current (running) EV main window? How? I get the error message "is not a valid file list", but searching the forum for file list brings almost 1,000 hits..., and I don't find file list / filelist in the command lists; if I redirected the output to some filelist name (how?), how would I then redirect this file list to the EV main window?
(I don't need a file name, it would be sufficient that it was in the work memory, and that it would replace the EV main window's list every time. But especially, I don't find any "direct" command for redirecting the everything.exe search results into the main window list - and I don't know how it is called, which hampers my tries to find it.)
b) Is it possible with es.exe? It seems that the es.exe syntax is shorter than the everything.exe syntax, e.g. /as instead of (everything.exe) attrib:a and I use es.exe for file output, for other tasks, but here again, I don't see any option listed for simple output to the (running) everything main window.
(Obviously, I could have AHK write my (everything.exe, not es.exe) search string into the main window's search bar instead, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution.)
Thank you very much!
I want to use and run es.exe, in order to avoid Everything's main window's search bar; the reason for this: According to my respective search situation, I have some "base" search conditions, plus individual, specific search conditions: the former remain stable for multiple searches, the latter have to be individualized for every search.
So I want to write my own "search bar", in AutoHotkey, with in fact 2 bars in the dialog, one for the "stable" conditions, and one (which has focus) for the individual ones; the AutoHotkey part is not too difficult.
But I don't really grasp the EV / ES part of the task, I have thoroughly read the help file, but nothing works. Thus:
a) Is it possible to redirect the everything.exe search results into the current (running) EV main window? How? I get the error message "is not a valid file list", but searching the forum for file list brings almost 1,000 hits..., and I don't find file list / filelist in the command lists; if I redirected the output to some filelist name (how?), how would I then redirect this file list to the EV main window?
(I don't need a file name, it would be sufficient that it was in the work memory, and that it would replace the EV main window's list every time. But especially, I don't find any "direct" command for redirecting the everything.exe search results into the main window list - and I don't know how it is called, which hampers my tries to find it.)
b) Is it possible with es.exe? It seems that the es.exe syntax is shorter than the everything.exe syntax, e.g. /as instead of (everything.exe) attrib:a and I use es.exe for file output, for other tasks, but here again, I don't see any option listed for simple output to the (running) everything main window.
(Obviously, I could have AHK write my (everything.exe, not es.exe) search string into the main window's search bar instead, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution.)
Thank you very much!
Statistics: Posted by v2026 — Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:50 pm
