XYplorer Beta Club

Hello!
I really like XYplorer, however it lacks but one feature that would make me actually love it: when I press the Back/Up button I would like it to automatically highlight the folder I was previously in. This is for fast deleting/renaming.

Thanks for your attention

Hi and welcome,

this is actually done when you use the Back key to go upwards.

Don

Thanks, I didn't know about that, but still, I would like the same thing to happen when I use my mouse rather than my keyboard.

boogiepop wrote:Thanks, I didn't know about that, but still, I would like the same thing to happen when I use my mouse rather than my keyboard.

No problem: Configuration / General / Dbl-click on empty space goes up <- check this and Dbl-click on list white space will do your thing.

Get ready for love...

Alright, that's one step forward to granting my wish. Now if you could get the Back button to act the same way...

boogiepop wrote:Alright, that's one step forward to granting my wish. Now if you could get the Back button to act the same way...

The Back button acts almost the same way already. The item is focused but not selected. For a rename this is enough: press F2 and you are in rename mode. For a delete you have to select (press SPACE).

admin wrote:The Back button acts almost the same way already. The item is focused but not selected. For a rename this is enough: press F2 and you are in rename mode. For a delete you have to select (press SPACE).

I guess this will have to do for now, thank you very much for your support.

You could always replace XY's back and forward buttons with custom buttons that perform the button's action followed by selecting the focused item; which might be a little bit closer to what you had in mind.

For example: Although I'm not having any luck getting the dropdown arrow to work correctly in this manner. It's just showing me an empty menu. Any thoughts, Don?

I'm sorry that this thread evolved into a support request

TheQwerty wrote:You could always replace XY's back and forward buttons with custom buttons that perform the button's action followed by selecting the focused item; which might be a little bit closer to what you had in mind.

Your trick did exactly what I needed, and I never even use the dropdown history button so it's all good, thank you.

Love status: achieved

TheQwerty wrote:Although I'm not having any luck getting the dropdown arrow to work correctly in this manner. It's just showing me an empty menu. Any thoughts, Don?

Bug. Fixed. No mention in change log because too long to explain.

BTW: the blue buttons would be :backtab and :foretab.