Overhaul of command-line parameters

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NotNull
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Overhaul of command-line parameters

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I understand that the current command-line options, like /a /s /b /o, need to be kept for backwards compatibility, but I doubt if a lot of people -- outside of the "forum fanatics" ;-) -- can tell what the effect is of all of these options.
The commercial colleagues/competition (Directory Opus and XYPlorer) solve this in a much more user friendly and/or elegant way.


I would like to suggest to bring the TC parameters into the 21th century too.
I see two ways to do so that don't need changing the current setup, where I do prefer the second one in case of TC:
  • The way Directory Opus solves this: by adding an external utility that takes care of all (API) calls to the (running) file manager. By runnibg this external utility with parameters, the file manager itself will be configured accordingly.
  • The way *nix solves this: next to the one character parameters, they add an extra, more readable one: ls -d vs ls --directory.
    For TC this could look like:
    --left=c:=\ --right=c:\windows
    --active=x:\folder --inactive=y:\backup --synchronize
    --lister=c:\file.txt
    You get the idea ...

Much easier to remember/apply and no need to "decrypt" the help text to find out which parameters are needed (try to make sense of all the /S options ...)
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Re: Overhaul of command-line parameters

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--left etc looks nice indeed, but why stop at the command line, parameters can be very cryptic too "cm_Copy /B1O5GT"
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Re: Overhaul of command-line parameters

Post by *NotNull »

hi5 wrote: 2026-01-21, 20:37 UTC "cm_Copy /B1O5GT"
Those are the cheatcodes to unlock god-mode in TC, right? ;)

But you are absolutely right: more verbose flags and settings would be welcome here too.
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