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At the risk of turning this inot anther wish list post, I actually reckon .zip and .tar.gz *should* be included since both windows and OSX support them natively. It's an acceptable minimum level, so other archives can be dealt with by a dedicated archiver, but ZIP is everywhere, so supporting a minimum level of compression is a good thing IMO.
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lukescammell wrote:At the risk of turning this inot anther wish list post, I actually reckon .zip and .tar.gz *should* be included since both windows and OSX support them natively.
I agree that this is not the place for wishes, but just wanted to say that, AFAIK, while windows XP may support .zip natively, MY windows (98SE & 2K) do NOT! They both look at a .zip with a :? until I install a zip handler, such as WinZip...

Here's two wish threads about zip...there likely are others:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=544
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=675
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5.40.0025 — simply Brilliant!

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Holy crap, I not only discovered some features I had not been using (kicking self in the backside), but having SHIFT+F6 to move the focused item into view is really helpful, since I spend a good deal of time scrolling during some projects.

CTRL+SHIFT+M (Select by Selected Type/s) and CTRL+ALT+J (Filter by Selected Extension/s) are two others I should have been using more often.

Bravo, Don!
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Re: 5.40.0025 — simply Brilliant!

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zridling wrote:Holy crap, I not only discovered some features I had not been using (kicking self in the backside)
Don't kick yourself too hard :P , since most of what you've mentioned are quite new features! Some are virtually brand new...so you're on time to start using them just like we all are! :wink:
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zridling wrote:... having SHIFT+F6 to move the focused item into view is really helpful, since I spend a good deal of time scrolling during some projects.
The one thing I do not like about it is that you need two hands for SHIFT+F6 unless you are King Kong. But there was no better idea in my head... :|

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I can do it with one hand using the right shift key, and I'm not king kong, believe me :P
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    + List view: Now you can change the sort order/sorted column also in 
      an empty list
Thanks, this one is really cool IMHO. Don't necessary have to use it every day, but it's a nice thing to be able to do so when needed! :D
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jacky wrote:

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    + List view: Now you can change the sort order/sorted column also in 
      an empty list
Thanks, this one is really cool IMHO. Don't necessary have to use it every day, but it's a nice thing to be able to do so when needed! :D
I tried to understand it and could not, but i am curious what one is trying to sort when a list is EMPTY. I am sure i am missing some trick here.

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surrender wrote:I tried to understand it and could not, but i am curious what one is trying to sort when a list is EMPTY. I am sure i am missing some trick here.
:P Obviously not trying to sort anything, as list is empty indeed. But when at times I end up in some empty folder and I wanna change the sort order for later, I had to go to another folder just to do so, which bugged me... 8)
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lukescammell wrote:I can do it with one hand using the right shift key, and I'm not king kong, believe me :P
How? When I do it I feel like a contortionist. Photos! :wink:

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Left hand: thumb on RSHIFT, little finger on F6

What's hard about that? :P

I can't even be tempted to use the LSHIFT as I use one of these.
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lukescammell wrote:Left hand: thumb on RSHIFT, little finger on F6

What's hard about that? :P
Cool! Using RSHIFT with the left hand, it blows my mind! Jimi is not dead!

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admin wrote:

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    * Experimentally, on network drives (UNC or mapped) freshly 
      displayed tree folders are not checked for any contained 
      subfolders anymore, but it is assumed that subfolders exist. In 
      other words: the "+" icon is set unconditionally. This strategy, 
      which is common among file managers, will speed up network 
      browsing considerably.
Now network browsing is instantaneous. Thanks. :D

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    + Visual Filters now work in Find mode, too! Performance costs are
      hardly measurable if VF is off; costs are higher if it is on, of
      course, depending on the complexity of the filter.
Lovely job :)

Now I can do a quick and dirty search and then drill down into the results quite easily :D (this is because I'm too lazy to learn RegEx :D)
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5.50.0001 Toolbar context menus — brilliant!

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Although I don't use the toolbar at all in XYplorer, adding context menus to various buttons is something I would have never thought of in a thousand years. Just the changes to the Hotlist toolbar button alone is brilliant in its efficiency and creative thinking. Thanks man!
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