[Wontdo] Backspace⌫ to move folder Up/⏎Enter to open the folder

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[Wontdo] Backspace⌫ to move folder Up/⏎Enter to open the folder

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I use Backspace⌫ to move folder Up in a file managers and would like to do the same in GC, but couldn't even find the appropriately named command.
Could you please add such a command and allow Backspace (in the Editor, but without any modifiers) to be used as a keybind (I've tried to bind it to a rotate command, but it still asks to delete instead of rotate)?

Similarly to another suggestion I've added, ⏎Enter should open/enter the folder instead of renaming it
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Re: Backspace⌫ to move folder Up/⏎Enter to open the folder

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es wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:43 pm I use Backspace⌫ to move folder Up in a file managers
How do you move down?

↑ move folder UP

↓ move folder down

→ opens a folder

← close a folder
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Re: Backspace⌫ to move folder Up/⏎Enter to open the folder

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Backspace is reserved for removal of a file as usual.
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Re: Backspace⌫ to move folder Up/⏎Enter to open the folder

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forum_adm wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:44 am Backspace is reserved for removal of a file as usual.
Yeah, but that's a bad default — deleting files should not be so convenient, especially when it conflicts with navigation, which is a far more frequently used operation (similarly with Enter as rename — renaming is more rare and destructive, while opening is more frequent and non-destructive, so the destructive/rare operations should be less convenient)
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Re: Backspace⌫ to move folder Up/⏎Enter to open the folder

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Fotokunst wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:55 pm How do you move down?
↑ move folder UP
↓ move folder down
→ opens a folder
← close a folder
That's not great to have to move your hands to the cursor keys, so in apps that support proper keybindings like Marta I use alternative home-row cursor navigation:
jkl;
i enter a folder
h go up

For apps that don't, hold + same as above (jkl; hi)

Or the more "universal" ones
enter a folder
go back up
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