Backspace doesn't open the drive list from the drive root

[Fla$her]

ShowParentDirInRoot=1
The drive list doesn't open when you press Backspace in the drive root.

[white]

It's a known "feature", see https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2214

[ghisler(Author)]

The reason is that it's very convenient to keep backspace pressed to go to the root of a drive. This would get broken when it would go further up.

[Fla$her]

see https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2214

And where does it say about Backspace?

2ghisler(Author)
The reason is clear. What about cm_GoToParent 0/1 ?

[white]

see https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2214

And where does it say about Backspace?

Backspace is the same as Ctrl-PgUp:

CTRL+PgUp
or Backspace Change to parent directory (corresponds to cd ..)

[ghisler(Author)]

The reason is clear. What about cm_GoToParent 0/1 ?

That's what gets invoked when you press Backspace or Ctrl+PgUp. Also the user may have assigned that to a hotkey, so he would get the same problem.

[Fla$her]

Also the user may have assigned that to a hotkey, so he would get the same problem.

The user should know better if he has a problem when he himself chose option 1 instead of 0. Not all users use Backspace holddown. For example, I don't use it.

I raised this issue in the light of our discussion about cm_SyncChangeDir. Having a drive list on both sides and entering one of them, I cannot synchronously return to the lists by this key.
But the problem is not only with drives. This also applies to virtual folders that are present in this list or on the desktop.
I can't use Backspace after opening them. In this case, a problem arises when there is an exit from a simple folder of the same name, but not from a virtual one on another panel, while with Enter on [..] there will be no such problem.

[ghisler(Author)]

I can't use Backspace after opening them. In this case, a problem arises when there is an exit from a simple folder of the same name, but not from a virtual one on another panel, while with Enter on [..] there will be no such problem.

I don't understand, when backspace isn't ignored it should work exactly the same as double clicking on [..]. Please give an example of two paths where this isn't the case.

[Fla$her]

Or on the left I open cd %$PERSONAL%, and on the right cd ::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}.

Regardless of which panel I press the key in, the exit will only happen from the %$PERSONAL% folder.

[ghisler(Author)]

That's because the directory NAMES are not the same - something YOU requested yourself and told me that it was a bug which must be fixed without giving the user even an option to bypass it, for example here:
viewtopic.php?p=442947#p442947

It remains to fix it so that there is no synchronous change of different-named directories when switching to the parent by Backspace or Enter on [..].

[Fla$her]

because the directory NAMES are not the same

How can they not be of the same name if

with Enter on [..] there will be no such problem.

And the opening of these folders is also carried out synchronously.
When I change the name in the properties of the virtual folder, it automatically changes for %$PERSONAL%.

If these names do not match on your system, you can make them of the same name yourself and check.

[petermad]

Or on the left I open cd %$PERSONAL%, and on the right cd ::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}.

Hmm, If I go into those two folders, the name on the left side is: C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents and on the right side it is: \\My Documents (or \\Dokumenter with Danish system locale). So the names are not the same, so when double-clicking [..] or pressing BackSpace the Sync is suspended.

On Windows XP this is different - here the left side shows C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Dokumenter and the right side \\Dokumenter (I don't have an English Windows XP) and since the names here are the same Double-clicking on [..] goes updir in both panels. But pressing BackSpace does not go updir from the \\Dokumenter folder in this case which it should! - So BackSpace (or Ctrl+PgUp) and Double-click on [..] behaves differently in this situation.

[Fla$her]

in this case which it should!

What do you mean? That's exactly how it shouldn't be.

[petermad]

in this case which it should!

What do you mean? That's exactly how it shouldn't be.

I am sure you don't mean that - if you do mean it, you are contradicting yourself:

I can't use Backspace after opening them. In this case, a problem arises when there is an exit from a simple folder of the same name, but not from a virtual one on another panel, while with Enter on [..] there will be no such problem

In the case I describe with Windows XP, TC has one behavior when Double-clicking [..] and another when pressing BackSpace - which behavior is correct in your opinion (I assume we can agree that the behavior should be the same)?

[Fla$her]

if you do mean it, you are contradicting yourself:

What's "it"? I don't see any contradiction.

I assume we can agree that the behavior should be the same

Definitely. But you write that this behavior with non-working Bakspace should be, but I write that not. So who has a contradiction?