Navigate hierarchy with left/right arrow (enhancement)

[Anders256]

Hi Osmose,

I have a an enhancement suggestion. The plugin "modal-file-manager" has en interesting feature. There doesn't seem to be any active development of "modal-file-manager" so I guess it would be ok to copy a feature.

When moving in the directory/file list (i.e. one file or folder is highlighted), the left and right arrow are used for navigation instead of moving the text cursor. Left arrow opens the parent directory and right arrow opens a highlighted directory. This makes for very fast navigation when moving around a large folder hierarchy.

This should obviously be an option to avoid confusing current users:)

best regards,
Anders

[Osmose]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I think that's a neat idea, and I'd accept a PR for it. It should probably include a sliding animation between the two lists in the direction you hit to help the user better understand what happens if they accidentally hit the keys without knowing what they do.

[Anders256]

I glad to hear that you like the idea :)

An animation could be nice as long as it doesn't slow things down. If the new feature is enabled by an option that is off by default it should be rather clear to anyone what the can expect, even without an animation. And the top path is also updated to reflect the changes.

[vdun]

~/.atom/keymap.cson :
'.advanced-open-file atom-text-editor': 'right': 'core:confirm'