>> 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- "All hands! All hands! Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho! Lash up and stow, lash up and stow! Wakey, wakey; rise and shine, the morning's fine; you've had your time and I've had mine! The sun's scorching your bleedin' eyes out! Beautiful dreamer, lash up and stow! The cooks to the galley have gone long ago! Show a leg! Show a leg! Make a move!" (Royal Navy morning call) _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
