I used to have an external, which added extra menus to the one that appears when right clicking on a patch in pd vanilla.
I don't remember if this was the only function of the external.

These extra menus showed pd and external objects (each in another section) ready to be added in the patch.

Here is a small sketch I made to explain myself better:

Of course, I did a search on the internet trying to find this external but the vastness of pure data libraries and not knowing its name made it difficult to find it.

Do you think you know what it was called?

I think this happens when you load the ELSE library.

@alexandros I have ELSE just installed and it does not seem to appear

Is it in Pd's search path?

Sorry, I mean that ELSE is installed (and working) but the function I mentioned is not loaded.

It seems that this loads when I open the All_about_else.pd patch that comes with the library. If I don't open this, even if I set the path to else with [declare], this menu doesn't work.

First of all, I recently noticed that this feature did come in ELSE, because of one of the notes that appears when loading the library.

On the other hand, it doesn't matter if I open the patch All_about_else.pd or declare the start path, it doesn't open at all.

I also noticed that my version of pure data is old (0.53-1); I guess this must affect; the Debian system repositories install this version by default, so I'll see what I can solve this before I update further on my problem.
Thanks for all the advice.

@Carambolooo I am pretty sure I saw a pr for adding this to vanilla on the github page. If you are going to build pd you might want to check, the code to have this as native pd might be there for you to use then you don't need to open the All_about_else patch to get it to load, might even be in the current dev branch if it got accepted. Github is not working well for me right now so I can't check.

https://github.com/porres/pd-else?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-else

@oid Since it looks easy, I may try to build pd myself with that caracteristics then. Thanks for the guidance!

It's just a probability, as Debian is a very insistent system in not using programs that have not been marked as stable in its repository. So I might as well just wait for the next version of pd for my system and see if that solves my problem..

no need to build, just load the ELSE binary via startup as mentioned in that link "Loading the library loads an object browsing plugin."