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It would be great if the drive letter and text/current dir on the tab-heads would not clutter as they do, it's sometimes difficult to difference the text from drive letter as there are only a ":" between drive letter and text/current dir. Put in an space might do it.

Ok and ??????????? why ?????????????????????????

masterninja2 wrote: 2020-10-04, 16:13 UTC Ok and ??????????? why ?????????????????????????

Because C:\ is easy to see and always on the left side of the tab.
If you realy need more, making the drive letter in bold would be a better suggestion.

Sorry my mistake
I don't mean the line where the full path is shown just above the columm names. I mean in the tab-heads above that line. Where the text is your current directory - here it's look a bit cluttered when the text of the tab goes: ´"c:windows" when you have chosen to have drive letter shown on the tabs.

2masterninja2
If you have trouble seeing the items on the screen, then why don't you use a bold font like TC did by default in the old days, and like I still prefer: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/boldfont.png

@petermad
It's still cluttered in the tab heads "c:totalcmd" could be as default set as "C: totalcmd" or "C: totalcmd" or inverted or what else you could come up with.

Hi and welcome masterninja2.

masterninja2 wrote: 2020-10-04, 07:07 UTC It would be great if the drive letter and text/current dir on the tab-heads would not clutter as they do, it's sometimes difficult to difference the text from drive letter as there are only a ":" between drive letter and text/current dir. Put in an space might do it.

masterninja2 wrote: 2020-10-05, 04:46 UTC @petermad
It's still cluttered in the tab heads "c:totalcmd" could be as default set as "C: totalcmd" or "C: totalcmd" or inverted or what else you could come up with.

Me think the most of us don't want to waste space on the tab for to add an space sign,
"c:  totalcmd"
as there it is always the first letter which is the drive letter
"c:totalcmd"
and so it is very clear for us what drive we are on.
Even the backslash is not there to save space:
"c:\totalcmd"



Maybe this will help you...


You can make the drive letter uppercase:
"C:totalcmd"

From the Help > Configuration and Switches > Ini file Settings

Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 2

26.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DrivesShowUpcase=1
shows drives with uppercase drive letters in drive bar, drive dropdown list,
current dir, tabs and to the left of the command line

26.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DrivesExportUpcase=1
exports paths with uppercase drive letters in functions like Mark - Copy to clipboard with full path,
and when launching programs (current dir, program name)

Needs an restart of TC.
Note: The location of the ini files can be seen in menu Help - About Total Commander.
If entry doesn't exists, just create them below of [Configuration]


Also you can disable to see the drive letter at all:
Menu Configuration >> Options.. >> Folder Tabs > [_]Always show drive letter in the tab title
(also there is an help about INI-option "DirTabOptions" )




 

You can set the character used as a separator in the tabs, but only one character can be used. For example, to use an underscore instead of a colon, use:

[Configuration]
TabSeparator=_

@Ghisler

First of all, thank for making such a great program - I have used it since V2 and it's my no.1 program I use. I use it all the time for everything, there is almost nothing i can't do in totalcmd.
Second, thanks for the answer - I will head to the ini file and make changes.

2ghisler(Author)
Maybe the TabSeparator option could be changed to allow two characters (including spaces) in the future?