Total Commander

First of all: I am a great fan of TC. Thanks for this great tool!
There's only this one little thing which Windows Explorer handles better: when you go back in history (Alt+Left-Arrow) it selects the folder that you were in before, which is very handy. TC does not. But TC really does it, when you just go one level up. Why not handle it the same way when going back in history? Shouldn't be a very big issue - does it?
Thanks in advance
Dieter

Shouldn't be a very big issue - does it?

No.

"Configuration -> Options -> Misc"
Just assign <Alt+Left> to the command cm_GoToParent.


Regards
Holger

Thanks for the comment.
But this is not quite, what I want. I do not want to go back to the parent folder, but back in history. Also this suggestion does not consider clicking the back button. The behaviour between clicking it and Alt+Left would no more be the same.
Best regards
Dieter

dphp0708-at-alice-dsl.net,
In other words, you'd like TC to remember the cursor position, too.

Roman

dphp0708@alice-dsl.net wrote:Also this suggestion does not consider clicking the back button. The behaviour between clicking it and Alt+Left would no more be the same.

You can assign the same command to this button too.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against your suggestion but i guess it would result in a incompatible change of the wincmd.ini (Left/RightHistory) section.

BTW: Cursor position.
It must be the name of the file or the folder under the cursor.
A position as number would be insufficient if a file is created or deleted or if the sorting of the panel is changed.

Regards
Holger

HolgerK, I think there is no any need to save positions into wincmd.ini, just keep them in memory. I don't think theese positions are required after restarting TC, just while navigating. So, we only need to remember focused item name together with folder path.

Yes, that's a compromise (as already implemented for the cursor position in different tabs)

Regrads
Holger

I also think, that MVV's suggestion would be a good compromise.

Now I see, that it ist not as easy as I originally thought. I understand, that the former position must be stored somewhere, because the history can span folders and even drives. Probably this is, what you call the cursor.

As said above - the suggestion of MVV seems to be a nice approach.

Best regards and thanks for your comments
Dieter