Directory history issue: new history doesn't erase the old

[Usher]

If you use backspace in your browser, will it delete visited page address from the browser history? No. You can move back and forward. If you move back and then go other way, the browser will remove previous forward part only from the tab history, visited pages will be still present in the global browser history.

TC doesn't provide separate history list per tab (which behaviour you seem to expect), and full history should list all visited dirs (as in global browser history).
TC uses other approach: there are options to decide which dirs are removed by history thinning - they are described in HISTORY.TXT.

[petermad]

2alphonse68

Now, this was not the behavior prior to this version.

Have you tried to disable the new setting: "Configuration" -> "Options..." -> "Operation" ->"Directory history thinning"?

Notice that if you have enabled "Directory history thinning" you can see the full history by pressing Shift+Alt+Down

[umbra]

I can confirm it. And while I prefer the new behavior, it is a change when compared to TC 9.22a.
And the "Directory history thinning" setting does not seem to have any effect on this.

[ghisler(Author)]

There is an option for that in wincmd.ini:
[Configuration]
HistoryAppend=0

It's 1 by default, so you don't lose any directories from the history when going back.

[petermad]

2alphonse68
I can confirm the difference between v. 9.5b1 and 9.22a except for this:

4. Enter 0 again (or any other directory, for that matter)

I can only reproduce that the history buffer kicks in again from "the top" (4) if I enter another directory than 0, not if I enter 0. I can also only reproduce it when using Alt+Leftarrow not when using backspace.

So what I do is having dirs c:\0\1\2\3\4 and dir c:\a
Start with clean history in c:\
Go to c:\0 then c:\0\1 then to c:\0\1\2 then to c:\0\1\2\3 and finally to c:\0\1\2\3\4
Use Alt+leftarrow to go back to c:\ through c:\0\1\2\3, c:\0\1\2 and c:\0\1 and c:\0
Go into c:\a
Use Alt+leftarrow - and here comes the difference: In TC 9.22a that leads back to c:\ as expected, whereas in TC 9.5b1 it leads to c:\0\1\2\3\4
In TC 9.22a further press on Alt+leftarrow stays in c:\ while in TC 9.5b1 further press on Alt+leftarrow takes you back through through c:\0\1\2\3, c:\0\1\2, c:\0\1 and c:\0 and ends up in c:\ - but with the cursor on c:\a not on c:\0

As you I find the way of TC 9.22a more correct and intuitive.

If the Alt+leftarrow press while in c:\a would lead back to c:\ and a further press would lead to c:\0 og so forth it would be intuitive, and an improvemet to 8.22a, where futrher presses on Alt+leftarrow after goin back from c:\a to c:\ doesn't have any effect.

[umbra]

The change is maybe related to this:

14.07.19 Added: Directory history: When going to previous entry via Alt+Left arrow, and then manually changing to a different directory, append that directory to the END of the history (32/64)

AKA, it no longer rewrites the history, as it used to in the previous versions.

2ghisler
Could you please confirm whether it's an intentional change?

[petermad]

2umbra

The change is maybe related to this:

I looks like that indeed.

[petermad]

There is an option for that in wincmd.ini:
[Configuration]
HistoryAppend=0

It's 1 by default, so you don't lose any directories from the history when going back.

It doen't change anything whether I use HistoryAppend=1 or HistoryAppend=0 - there is still this change in functinonality between TC 922a and TC 9.5x as described before:

So what I do is having dirs c:\0\1\2\3\4 and dir c:\a
Start with clean history in c:\
Go to c:\0 then c:\0\1 then to c:\0\1\2 then to c:\0\1\2\3 and finally to c:\0\1\2\3\4
Use Alt+leftarrow to go back to c:\ through c:\0\1\2\3, c:\0\1\2 and c:\0\1 and c:\0
Go into c:\a
Use Alt+leftarrow - and here comes the difference: In TC 9.22a that leads back to c:\ as expected, whereas in TC 9.5b1 it leads to c:\0\1\2\3\4
In TC 9.22a further press on Alt+leftarrow stays in c:\ while in TC 9.5b1 further press on Alt+leftarrow takes you back through through c:\0\1\2\3, c:\0\1\2, c:\0\1 and c:\0 and ends up in c:\ - but with the cursor on c:\a not on c:\0

[Usher]

2alphonse68
You can redirect sections [LeftHistory] and [RightHistory] from wincmd.ini to other file and just delete that file when needed.

[Usher]

2alphonse68

08.07.19 Added: Directory history thinning: wincmd.ini [Configuration] HistoryThinningDelta=5000 defaults to 5 seconds the user must stay in a directory to keep it in the history (32/64)

What settings for history thinning do you use now? If you switch back and forward faster than in 5 s, the directory may not be counted as last visited and won't be moved to the end of the list, I think.

[Usher]

HistoryThinningDelta=5000 ; to make sure, I tested with 10,000, but no joy

Make it much smaller, for example 100, and test again.

[ghisler(Author)]

Please try this new option in beta 3:
wincmd.ini
[Configuration]
HistoryCut=1

It cuts the history below the current entry and then appends the new directory, as it was in TC 9.22a.