Total Commander

Hi,

I like the directory menu and I use it frequently,
but I miss the possibility to choose the main entry of the sub menues.

explaination:

I got projects in ../documents/projects/project1, .. project2, a.s.o.
now I define a submenue "projects" with the entries project1, project2, ...

Now I can fast jump to project1 or project2, that's fine, but what if
I want to jump to "projects" frequently too?
I have to define another entry "projects".
Now I have to entries: "projects" with subs and "projects" without subs.

This could be done better if I
a) could click on "projects" (the entry *with* the subentries in it)

[face=courier]projects
-project1
-project2
-project3[/face]

or
b) the list of the submenue would have a "head"-entry like so:

[face=courier]projects
---------
projects1
projects2
projects3[/face]

and I could click on top entry ("projects")

just a small suggestion...
best regards,

frosch

This could be done better if I
a) could click on "projects" (the entry *with* the subentries in it)

Nice idea.

or
b) the list of the submenue would have a "head"-entry like so:

You can do it manually.

frosch wrote: but I miss the possibility to choose the main entry of the sub menues.

You're right, the hotlist is missing some functionality there.

But as you already noticed yourself, there is a workaround...


I have a similar setup, but my head entries are the project folder themselves and the sub menu items are some subfolders in these project folder.

Also i have the same project folder on my local drive and on a network share (i keep both [at least almost] in sync) with 99,99% same folder structure.

To have a simple way of going into the "root" folder of the menu, i just added this folder as the first item, as you also already suggested.

I can't imagine a better way. For example you can't do a right-click with the keyboard on the main item to for example go to the root folder.



But what you could do to improve your user experience

Are you using shortcuts? You can create shortcuts by placing a "&" before any character and the character after the "&" becomes the shortcut.


1. Don't use folder names which are called "project 1" ( i assume you just used them as an example anyway...)

2. configure the mneu like this

&1 project Folder
----- &1 Project Folder
----- &2 project-with-a-nice-name
----- &3 Project-with-an-even-nicer-name

So... to reach the project folder you just have to open the Directory hotlist with Ctrl+D and then hit 1 two times.

And for the project with the nicer name you would hit ctrl+d, 1, 3
You'll remember this very quickly if you really use it frequently.

I don't even use the mouse when using the directory hotlist.



hope that helps already a little

I would make it like this: And opening projects would require Ctrl+D p . presses.

TC uses standard Windows menus so it isn't possible to click on menu that contains subitems.

thanks for all the hints.

I didn't know that I can use the & function there.
It's much easier now.
(I'm a keyboard junkie too

Additionally I found if I place a "-" below of my main entry (projects)
TC makes me a nice little horizontal delimiter line...

greetings...

frosch