Suggestion - change space to "page down" about dive HOT 5 CLOSED

@TJM I think adding a page up/down feature to the file tree would be great. However, the most intuitive keys would be the PgUp and PgDn keys. Typically the "space" keybinding for an application that pages only allows one direction, where here we should be allowing for two directions (maybe shift+space? but I haven't seen precedence for that).

Though, I just opened up #51 (based on your comment in #41) which would allow you to override any keybinding... which means you'd be able to remap pagination and toggle collapse as you wish (the only thing you wouldn't be able to do is collapse on navigate).

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@TJM from what i understand you are suggesting 2 modifications in "Layer Contents" view

1. Ability to scroll using PgUp and PgDn/Space keys.
2. Overload Left Arrow to close directory. (Also suggested by @DomHudson in #46 (comment))

I will take a look.

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Actually, I am primarily suggesting using "Space" as a "Page Down" ... which would necessitate "2" above. I don't actually have "physical" page-up or page-down keys on my laptop, but think it would be logical for them to work, if you write the function to handle "space" as page-down, you could also bind the physical page-down key to it.

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From what I saw in "less" keybindings, it uses f for PgDn and b for PgUp.
Yes, we could always add more keybindings for the feature.
Let me see if I can get the feature in.
We could always discuss which keys to assign for them.

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The problem is there are soo many tools out there, and it depends on which ones you commonly use as to which shortcut keys are "natural" to you. If the PageUp/PageDn capability exists, mapping space to engage pagedn should be simple, as you have noted. :)

Thanks!
Tommy

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