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Hi all

Happy new year!

I'm a heavy user of saved searches, like
This brings up all items I need for a specific task. I have tagged both files and directories, but there's an issue with the latter. Well, actually there are two.

1. After opening a directory and working in it, I'd like to go back to the search using ALT-Left. This doesn't work, XYP goes back to This PC only.

2. Because 1 was pretty annoying, I tried to find a way to quickly open the folder in a background tab. This can be done using the context menu, but I can't find this entry in the keyboard customization screen.

Any hint appreciated.

Cheers

André

2. Miscellaneous - Go To - Open Containing Folder in New Background Tab?

highend wrote:2. Miscellaneous - Go To - Open Containing Folder in New Background Tab?

Tried that, but that's not what I need.
These 3 commands can't be found in the "list of all commands":
"Open in other pane" would be nice, too, even better than in a background tab.

Cheers

André

Then write a script, use it in an UDC and assign a keyboard shortcut to it

highend wrote:Then write a script, use it in an UDC and assign a keyboard shortcut to it

Well, I think these entries would have to be there. It's an incomplete list of all commands, IMHO.

These items are part of a context menu. E.g. "Open in other pane" isn't available as a global
command either. These items don't react in the same way as e.g. a normal context menu click
(try that with two selected folders, only the first one will be handled by the command).

And the script command you need to accomplish what you want seems pretty straightforward, you could start with something like this,
or if you wanted it to open in the inactive pane
of course you would have to modify these if you wanted to open multiple locations at once.

Quick Searches are not part of history (which is just a history of browsed locations).

But there is the command Edit | Repeat Last Quick Search (Shift+F3). Should work for you.

admin wrote:Quick Searches are not part of history (which is just a history of browsed locations).

But there is the command Edit | Repeat Last Quick Search (Shift+F3). Should work for you.

Thanks! I'll try to remember that one ;-)

Wouldn't it make sense to add quick searches to the history, too?

jupe wrote:And the script command you need to accomplish what you want seems pretty straightforward, you could start with something like this,

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if (exists(<curitem>) == 2) {tab("newb", <curitem>);} //OPEN IN BACKGROUND

or if you wanted it to open in the inactive pane

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  if (exists(<curitem>) == 2) {
		$loc = <curitem>;
		#802;
		tab("new", $loc);
		#802;
	}

of course you would have to modify these if you wanted to open multiple locations at once.

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

rclkrtrzckr wrote:Wouldn't it make sense to add quick searches to the history, too?

At the moment I prefer to keep history a collection of places. Changing this would have epic consequences...