Is there a quick way of undoing a folder change in Far Manager?

Question

I love Far Manager. However, it has a feature to quickly go to the root directory of a drive with Ctrl+\. I do sometimes need and use this feature, but more frequently I use Ctrl+↵ to quickly insert the file name under the cursor into the command line. As it so happens, the ↵ key is located dangerously close to \ which is why I sometimes erroneously go the root directory (which then is doubly unfortunate since I originally wanted to work with a file in the directory I was in).

Now I could probably just redefine Ctrl+\ to do nothing, although I still sometimes need that (can be replicated with a quick cd\, though). But Windows Explorer, in the wake of the WWW, provided us with a handy directory history and two separate ways of navigating backwards: backwards through the history and backwards through the hierarchy.

Is there something quick and easy to get back to the folder I were in? This is less of an issue in C:\Users\Me (still nagging) but more so in deeper hierarchies.

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 17 '10 at 08:22

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Oh joy. While writing the question (and coming to the directory history part) I stumbled upon the solution myself. Far provides a folder history as well (Alt+F12), so doing a quick Alt+F12, ↵ goes back to the previous folder.

I have now bound this to Ctrl+⇧+\.

answered Jun 17 '10 at 08:22

Joey

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I made the same mistakes :) – Chad Sep 22 '14 at 02:03
@Joey can you please share how you bound this to a new keyboard shortcut, I am new to FAR manager and so far it has exceeded my expectations. Thanks. – NotepadPlusPlus PRO Mar 06 '20 at 16:47
@Gifcrazy: Ctrl+. or Ctrl+Shift+. to start macro recording. Same hotkey to end it. During recording there's a red `R` in the upper-left corner. See Jeremy's answer below. – Joey Mar 06 '20 at 18:04
@Joey, thanks, I tried, and it is working well. Only one thing, is that you cannot go back more than one directory behind. i.e. I cannot browse to my previously visited directories, something that I can do in Windows explorer using `Ctrl + <` and `Ctrl + >`. Someone should write a plugin or script in FAR for that, which is out of scope for this question. So, really appreciate your response. – NotepadPlusPlus PRO Mar 06 '20 at 20:10

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 17 '13 at 12:17

Based on the answer form Joey I did it like this

Used a macro for prev folder / next folder like described in here

http://forum.farmanager.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=7927

e.g. to set prev, start recording by

Ctrl+.

then

Alt+F12

then go up to next record by

▲

and again

Ctrl+.

to finish recording.

Bind it to Alt+◀ and you have Eclipse like prev / next navigation.

Is there a quick way of undoing a folder change in Far Manager?

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