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> It's a hotkey that essentially no other software uses for the same behavior Except for Windows Explorer, but who uses that, eh? Your level of empathy is imm
by meatcider 10y ago
> It's a hotkey that essentially no other software uses for the same behavior
Except for Windows Explorer, but who uses that, eh?
Your level of empathy is immaterial to the conversation, but thanks for sharing.
- stouset 10y agoBackspace on Windows Explorer goes up one directory, not back in your history. In a not-at-all shocking turn of events, it turns out Alt-Left and Alt-Right are in fact the hotkeys for navigating backward and forward through history, so Chrome aligns perfectly with Windows Explorer in this regard.
- Arnavion 10y agoUmm, Backspace in Windows Explorer absolutely does go back in history, unless this changed in Windows 8+ or something (testing on Windows 7 here).
- thaumasiotes 10y agoIt goes back in history on windows 10 too. I never actually knew that, but hey. I definitely believe removing backspace-to-go-back in the browser is the right choice. I did know about that one, solely because every so often I do it by mistake. The problem isn't that I lose data -- I don't. The problem is that this shortcut does nothing but cause me problems I don't want. I never want the functionality, and yet it keeps happening to me anyway because it's so easy to trigger unintentionally. There's no case for this shortcut continuing to exist.
- mrighele 10y agoBackspace used to go up one level up to Windows XP, if I remember correctly. Now you can go up one level with Alt+Up Arrow [1] [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcuts#keyboard-shortcuts=windows-8 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcut...
- prof_hobart 10y agoJust tried it on my Windows 7 and it's quite definitely going up one level, not back in history. If I've got a folder structure 1 | |--1.1 | |--1.2 And I click into 1.1 and then into 1.2, if I then press backspace I end up on 1 (the parent), not 1.1 (the previous in the history).
- cm2187 10y agoTry going into C:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Folder4\Folder5 Then click on "Folder3" to go directly to Folder3. Then press BackSpace, you will go back to Folder5, not Folder2. To go up the shortcut is ALT Arrow Up. Now when there is nothing to go back to (you opened a sub folder directly), Backspace goes up instead of doing nothing.
- prof_hobart 10y agoNope. Just done that, in a tree view. Took me to folder 2
- cm2187 10y agoThey must haved changed the behavior. I tried that on Windows 7 with a network drive.
- Arnavion 10y agoprof_habart is pressing backspace while clicking entries in the tree view, which indeed treats backspace as going one level up, not one back in history. But that's not really relevant to this thread.
- JoBrad 10y agoNo, it definitely serves as a back shortcut key, not up. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcuts#keyboard-shortcuts=windows-7 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcut...
- ricksplat 10y agoIn Windows 95 backspace went "Up One" but it's been "Back" ever since IE 4 introduced shell integration.
- cm2187 10y agoNo "Backspace" goes back, not up. Up is "ALT Up Arrow".