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I love Far Manager. However, it has a feature to quickly go to the root directory of a drive with Ctrl+\. I do sometimes need and use this feature, but more frequently I use Ctrl+↵ to quickly insert the file name under the cursor into the command line. As it so happens, the ↵ key is located dangerously close to \ which is why I sometimes erroneously go the root directory (which then is doubly unfortunate since I originally wanted to work with a file in the directory I was in).

Now I could probably just redefine Ctrl+\ to do nothing, although I still sometimes need that (can be replicated with a quick cd\, though). But Windows Explorer, in the wake of the WWW, provided us with a handy directory history and two separate ways of navigating backwards: backwards through the history and backwards through the hierarchy.

Is there something quick and easy to get back to the folder I were in? This is less of an issue in C:\Users\Me (still nagging) but more so in deeper hierarchies.

Oliver Salzburg
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Oh joy. While writing the question (and coming to the directory history part) I stumbled upon the solution myself. Far provides a folder history as well (Alt+F12), so doing a quick Alt+F12, ↵ goes back to the previous folder.

I have now bound this to Ctrl+⇧+\.

Joey
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Based on the answer form Joey I did it like this

Used a macro for prev folder / next folder like described in here

http://forum.farmanager.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=7927

e.g. to set prev, start recording by

Ctrl+.

then

Alt+F12

then go up to next record by

▲

and again

Ctrl+.

to finish recording.

Bind it to Alt+◀ and you have Eclipse like prev / next navigation.

Jeremy S.
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