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 ...)

