Scroll Tree (Left/Right) to Keep Selection in View

[soja]

One little annoyance I have with using the tree in a deeply nested folder is that I constantly find myself having to scroll the tree left and right to keep the current hierarchy in view. I wish that it would automatically scroll such that the current selected directory (or its parent directory) was on or near the left side of the tree window. Ideally, this "automatic centering" of the focused folder could occur upon any "current directory changed" event.

This feature was present in Windows Vista. Of all the failings of Vista, this is one feature that I really liked. Curiously, Microsoft seem to have reworked Explorer in Windows 7, and this feature is not included. But that doesn't mean it's not a good feature.

Thanks!

[SkyFrontier]

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v9.30.0024 - 2010-07-30 18:43
    + Tree: Now a tree with a horizontal scrollbar auto-scrolls into
      view when you drag-hover the left or right margins, aka Hot
      Scrolling.

I've worked with some file managers that do the auto-centering thing. Find THAT annoying, believe it or not.
-but OPTION is always a good thing, right...?

[soja]

Oh that's interesting; I was running 9.30.0012, and I hadn't seen that feature yet. I guess it's OK... but I really want the tree to left-justify the selected folder's parent at the moment any folder change occurs.

And yes, I agree that options are very good things. =)

[admin]

And yes, I agree that options are very good things. =)

No, options are relatively bad things. They mean work, waste of time, responsibility, risk, stress... A good thing (machine, software, lover) would be one where everything is hardcoded exactly the way you like it.