Latest TC 9 x64
This all relates to one issue which manifests in two ways.
In the directory menu, I want to have two directory links. One that only opens in the current panel, and the other which also opens a specific directory in the "target" panel - but the "base" directory of both is the same.
Example:
Suppose we have these folders:
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d:\Testingdir_A\subfolder1\
d:\Testingdir_A\subfolder2\
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d:\Testingdir_A\subfolder1\
... whilst the second directory menu entry should open
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d:\Testingdir_A\subfolder1\
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d:\Testingdir_A\subfolder2\
First issue is that you can't configure this the normal way (via the directory menu->add current dir), because once you configure either of the two (for example say you configure just the "active" panel directory to be saved), the option to "add current dir" is gone from the directory menu, instead it is replaced by "Remove current dir". This makes sense because technically you shouldn't want to save the same dir twice - but if you want to have two links, one of which also saves the target directory, this behavior is undesirable. So the workaround is to use the configuration menu of the directory menu and add a new entry manually.
The second issue becomes apparent once you have these two entries saved. The entries work correctly when clicked, however when you display the directory menu, you will always only see one of the two entries marked as highlighted, regardless of which of the two links you have opened; the only thing that matters is the actual order of the two in the list.
In the picture below, I clearly have d:\Testingdir_A\subfolder1\ selected in the left panel, but in the right panel, you can see that it's not even the same disk, and yet the menu is highlighting the wrong "directory menu" item - simply because they both share the current panel path (which is correct) and this item is higher on the list in the directory menu.
Image: https://i.imgur.com/oMM0hjc.png
Is this a bug? It's not really breaking my workflow, but it is a little strange, considering that saving the target directory is an option during the creation of the directory menu items.