Behaviour of CTRL-Left/Right

[CADweazle]

Hi folks,

as I understand, this shortcut opens the archive/directory under the curser in the other panel. So far so good.
But when I place the cursor over the [..] dirup - what happens ?

The same directory is opened, not the directory above the sourcedir.

Is this intentionally? Imho a lack of consistency!

Greetings,

[Clo]

2CADweazle
Hello !
¤ I confirm that behaviour. Not sure, but I guess it's designed like this. [..] isn't a real "normal" directory.
So, it can't be open.
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Claude
Clo

[Sheepdog]

[..] isn't a real "normal" directory.
So, it can't be open

Hi Claude, I do not agree.

as [.] represents the current directory is [..] a symbol of the upper dir.

Go into a subdir, mark some files and press [F5]. Then insert [..] as target. it will be copied to the upper dir.

But I had a look at the help and there is declared:

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If the cursor is not on a directory name, the current directory is displayed instead.

Now it's rather a philosophical question if [..] is a file or a directory.

Neverthless I think it would be more consistent if [Ctrl]+[Left/right] on [..] would open the upper dir in the other pane.

sheepdog

[karlchen]

Although I have to agree that [..] means the upper directory, I use this inconsistency as a convenient way of opening the same directory in the opposite panel.
I am not really sure if I would like to miss this strange feature.

Regards,
Karl

[SanskritFritz]

Well, I personally agree with Sheepdog, CADweazle, I also would like to open [..] on the opposite panel.

[Sheepdog]

2SanskritFritz

Pity partner, nothing to translate today

sheepdog

[SanskritFritz]

2Sheepdog

[nilsandrey]

"Although I have to agree that [..] means the upper directory, I use this inconsistency as a convenient way of opening the same directory in the opposite panel"

I'm on the same case, and many more can be. If the new feature of openning the parent appears...maybe a checkbox on the configuration option can be the solution (non checked by default).

[CADweazle]

2Christian
What's your opinion??

Greetings,

[ghisler(Author)]

I wrote it this way (same dir) because having the same dir in both windows is the most often used situation, but it couldn't be achieved in a dir containing only subdirs.

[CADweazle]

2[Christian]
supposed so .
How about making it configurable?

E.g. SHIFT-CTRL-LEFT/RIGHT to access the upper dir?

Would be fine !!

Greetings, Karl