Irregular behavior of SpecialCursorMovement=2

[umbra]

1. Add SpecialCursorMovement=2 to your wincmd.ini (or 6 if you have vertical scrollbar in your panels)
2. Start TC (now you can navigate between folders and subfolders using left/right arrow keys)
3. Navigate to a root of some drive and set the cursor on any file/folder in the middle of the panel
4. Now press left arrow a few times

Nothing should happen, the cursor should stay on the same selected file/folder. However, sometimes the cursor jumps to the first item in the panel, as if SpecialCursorMovement was set to 3 (or 7). This happens only when there is no parent folder to jump to.

Tested with TC 8.01, 7.57a (x32, x64)

[umbra]

Can anyone confirm this?

[petermad]

No, sorry.

I have now tried it with both 32-bit and 64-bit TC on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, but I cannot reproduce it.

[ghisler(Author)]

I have tried it too, but didn't get the problem either. Maybe it needs some other options?

[umbra]

No, that's the only setting needed. But it looks like it's happening only on my secondary partition. Not on my system drive, not on external or network drives. And I have no idea why.

[ghisler(Author)]

Maybe it's the number of items in the root of that partition? How many are there? And how many are displayed at the same time?

[umbra]

Mystery solved. There is a file in the root of that partition, that is being modified every few seconds. And when I press the left arrow after its modification, the cursor jumps to the first item in its panel.

When I use Ctrl+R to reload content of a panel, the cursor stays on the same item. So is intentional that it doesn't after pressing the left arrow?

[ghisler(Author)]

Ah, that makes sense! It seems to trigger a complete refresh of the list, so the cursor jumps to the top...