"Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 16 Oct 2021 18:10
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Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 21 Oct 2021 10:48
There is a tweak to achieve what you want:
However, I'm open to change. Should I drop the tweak and make "Reuse existing tabs when changing the location" radical? ATM I don't see much use in the distinction.
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+ Added tweak to reuse existing tabs when changing locations in whichever
way:
TabReuseTabsRadical=1
It supersedes the less radical UI setting "Configuration | Tabs and Panes
| Tabs | Reuse existing tabs when changing the location" which excludes
Tree, List and Breadcrumb.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 21 Oct 2021 11:52
I have set TabReuseTabsRadical=1
I don't see a reason why this can't be the default.
I don't see a reason why this can't be the default.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 21 Oct 2021 12:22
+1 for defaulting radical consistent.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 21 Oct 2021 16:32
I'm also "radical'.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 21 Oct 2021 22:49
Wow, that tweak exists already since a year ago: viewtopic.php?p=181218#p181218
If I had only known. I recently made an extra AHK script to achieve that.
I always wondered why the tree does not reuse tabs correctly. (It does so, only if the current tab is locked).
I always wanted the tree to reuse tabs under any condition as well but never dared to ask.
What reason is there for the tree not to reuse tabs in the normal way?
+1 for "radical".
If I had only known. I recently made an extra AHK script to achieve that.
I always wondered why the tree does not reuse tabs correctly. (It does so, only if the current tab is locked).
I always wanted the tree to reuse tabs under any condition as well but never dared to ask.
What reason is there for the tree not to reuse tabs in the normal way?
+1 for "radical".
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 22 Oct 2021 11:42
Okay. 
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 22 Oct 2021 13:27
Its a bug or I missunderstand the function.
With 22.30.0203 I have set
Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Reuse existing tabs when changing the location
but that doesn't work from the Tree in dual pane mode.
I have a dir open in a tab on the inactive side and some other dir on the active side.
If I click in the Tree on a dir which is the one on the inactive tab
it opens this dir on the active side and doesn't reuse the tab on the inactive side.
With 22.30.0203 I have set
Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Reuse existing tabs when changing the location
but that doesn't work from the Tree in dual pane mode.
I have a dir open in a tab on the inactive side and some other dir on the active side.
If I click in the Tree on a dir which is the one on the inactive tab
it opens this dir on the active side and doesn't reuse the tab on the inactive side.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 22 Oct 2021 13:31
It only works for the active pane tabs. IMO changing the active pane would be unexpected (too radical).
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 23 Oct 2021 02:08
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 28 Oct 2021 11:20
One detail that I hope you can improve:
1) two identical tabs are open
2) you go one level deeper
3) click "back" switches you to the second tab (expected, but feels weird TBH)
4) click "forward" does nothing (not expected, breaks the flow)
The suggestion is to either teach "forward" to switch tabs or make exceptions for both "back" and "forward" actions to stay at current tab.
1) two identical tabs are open
2) you go one level deeper
3) click "back" switches you to the second tab (expected, but feels weird TBH)
4) click "forward" does nothing (not expected, breaks the flow)
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The suggestion is to either teach "forward" to switch tabs or make exceptions for both "back" and "forward" actions to stay at current tab.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 28 Oct 2021 12:30
I'd go for the latter: exceptions for both "back" and "forward" actions to stay at current tab.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 28 Oct 2021 13:52
"Up" should be excepted as well. The sequence "Up" > "Back" is broken the same way.
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 28 Oct 2021 13:56
Those would be all very good improvements. Gradually XY is starting to work as I would have wanted it all along. 
Re: "Reuse existing tabs..." doesn't work in Tree.
Posted: 28 Oct 2021 14:42
Thinking about this some more. "Back and Foreward" are moving through the history/log of the tab itself, so it makes sense to stay on that tab.
However, "Up" does not have anything to do with the history of the tab. It is a "normal" move in the file system's folder structure. Therefore, it should not be an exception.