F7 - does anybody use it?

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F7 - does anybody use it?

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If yes, it's time to say bye-bye. I'm planning to finally add comfy keyboard support for
- Move To (Shift+F7)
- Copy To (Ctrl+F7)
- Backup To (Ctrl+Shift+F7)

The naked F7 (currently "Previous location") will probably get its role in this play, too...

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I sometimes use F7, and more often ctrl+F7 since i can quick swap when i am comparing two folders. Maybe then you can fulfill this wish of mine:

http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... highlight=

which is somewhat similar to ctrl+F7. :wink:

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Re-key away. Bundling F7 with similar functions makes it more memorable, useful, and thus powerful.
- Zaine Ridling, The Great Software blog

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Post by agnul »

Ups, I just learned about ctrl-f7 and now it's gone :(

Any chance for "Go to previous tab" to have a new keyboard shortcut?
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Post by surrender »

Actually if there is an option to "cycle tabs in recently used order", then ctrl+tab would be more useful.

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cycle tabs in recently used order
Yep, that would be cool 8)
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Post by admin »

agnul wrote:Ups, I just learned about ctrl-f7 and now it's gone :(

Any chance for "Go to previous tab" to have a new keyboard shortcut?
I have something better: F7 will now go to the previous location AND (if that was on another tab) previous tab at the same time! :)

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If i understand correctly, you mean it will Zap back and forth irrespective of same or different tab?? If so, sounds good. Additionally we have alt+right and left for back and fore history.

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surrender wrote:If i understand correctly, you mean it will Zap back and forth irrespective of same or different tab?? If so, sounds good. Additionally we have alt+right and left for back and fore history.
Yes.
F7 is already better than alt+right and left because you need not know whether the previous location was in the past or in the future.

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Neat. Works like a charm. :D

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A bug related to this. First time use of F7 after XY restart opens a new tab. Subsequent F7s work fine.

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surrender wrote:A bug related to this. First time use of F7 after XY restart opens a new tab. Subsequent F7s work fine.
That should only happen in the learning phase... (osmotic upgrading! :wink: )

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