[F. Req.] New commands : cm_GoToDriveRoot“x”

[Clo]

Hello All !

¤ This request is related to this tread on the French forum. Please, see the translations I made in the messages.

- The user JeanPaul having a “problem” with the command cm_GoToDriveC, finally one discovered that it needs AlwaysToRoot=1 too in <wincmd.ini> in order to get the behaviour expected (maybe wrongly) by the most users : jump to the root of the wanted drive, that is not in the real features of this command-group…

¤ Hence, I thought that new "merged" commands like cm_GoToDriveRoot“x” would be useful, since AlwaysToRoot=1 is applied ever to all drives.
They could have advantages, by setting the behaviour of the GoTo… command for any drive as one go.

What do you think ?

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[Vansumsen]

Hi !
Actually both cm_VisDriveButtons and cm_GotoDrive"X" jump to the last opened folder on the wanted drive...
Is it possible to change one of the 2 commands to force it to jump to the root of the drive... because AlwaysToRoot=1 change the behaviour of the 2 commands ?
- Or else, the Clo's proposal above could solve the issue I guess, and might not be very difficult to implement…
Friendly
Paul

[ghisler(Author)]

cm_GoToDriveC is meant to behave exactly like Alt+F1 - C, so this behaviour is intentional.

[petermad]

Except that cm_GoToDriveC doesn't support modification with Shift or Ctrl as does the use of Alt+F1.

After presseng Alt+F1, if I hold down Shift or Ctrl while pressing the C button I get a new Tab or respectively replace the current tab with the root of drive C:.

[Clo]

ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

cm_GoToDriveC is meant to behave exactly like Alt+F1 - C, so this behaviour is intentional.

- Most certainly, but the issue and the proposal above are not answered…

¤ For example, I could wish to get always the root for the C: drive (which is not my usual working place @ home) and the U: (network drive), and keep the designed behaviour for E: (my usual and boot drive), this from a bunch of buttons in the normal button-bar.
- This is impossible currently like petermad points out, since getting the root needs to set AlwaysToRoot=1 and
it's applied to all drives !
¤ Another way -maybe simpler- should be to modify the AlwaysToRoot=… INI entry like :
“0” or missing : disabled for all
AlwaysToRoot=A,C,U : It's applied only to these stated drives, while the others keep the designed behaviour.
- I guess it's that Paul Vansumsen meant as :
Vansumsen wrote

…Is it possible to change one of the 2 commands to force it to jump to the root of the drive…

What do you think ?

 m.f.G.
Claude
Clo

[Vansumsen]

2 Ghisler

Just an idea, why not introduce a parameter for the cm_GotoDrive"x" command, like %R, that should force a jump to the root of the disk? This should solve the problem...

Friendly

Paul

[Hacker]

BTW: You could use "cd c:\" in the Start menu...

Roman

[Clo]

2Hacker
Hello Roman !

- Indeed, but here the point is rather to use buttons with the appropriate commands, not paths - although they work-, because I guess that a command is easier to set by newbies from the scrolling-list (totalcmd.inc)…

 K R
Claude
Clo

[ghisler(Author)]

cm_xyz commands don't support any parameters, that's why there is no way to influence the behaviour of cm_gotodrivec, except for alwaystoroot=1.

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

…cm_xyz commands don't support any parameters…

• Hence, why not change / add flags to AlwaysToRoot=… like I propose above ?

- Indeed, the Hackers's cd "X":\ solution is good to get the root for some drives only, but I guess that very fresh newbies never used DOS, and even don't know exactly what is it; they look for the wanted function in the TC-commands, then (sometimes…) in the additional INI entries from the Help documents…

 m.f.G.
Claude
Clo