Re: Meta-o does what again?

[Reynir Stefansson <reynirhs isl is>]

>> Is that new? I thought it always worked like that. My help screen says:
> >    Alt-o   If the currently selected file is a directory,
> >            load that directory on the other panel and moves
> >            the selection to the next file.
> >     
>
> Yes, this has always been the intended behavior.
>
> At some point someone thought this was a bug and changed it to the
> behavior that Anton noticed.
>
> The idea behind Alt-o is that you can quickly browse a directory (and
> the contents of its children) without loosing your state (selected
> files).
>
> This is useful when cleaning a directory for example.   You have tons of
> junk, but you are not quite sure what is in each place, so you Alt-o on
> each one.
>   

I have been meditating on this for a while, and I think I know what bugs 
me about the change. It's that the 'new' behaviour is to *always* browse 
a different directory, even when I don't want it to.

How about amending the works so that it does this browse thang only when 
the selector bar rests on a directory? Surely I'm not the only one 
wanting to work with two files in the same directory and finding tabbing 
quicker than paging and scrolling back and forth?

Reynir H. Stefánsson (reynirhs mi is)
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