CLI QUICKGO and Go PATHENTRY in Opus 13 Comparison and Suggestions

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CLI QUICKGO and Go PATHENTRY in Opus 13 Comparison and Suggestions

These commands display the find-as-you-type field in a special mode ("go" mode) that lets you navigate to another folder in the current file display. A bare CLI QUICKGO and Go PATHENTRY gives the same result but in all other respects they are different.

The documentation for Go PATHENTRY says it is equivalent to CLI QUICKGO. They overlap but are not equivalent. They are not substitute for each other.

CLI QUICKGO takes a path or the noselect: argument along with a path (e.g., noselect:C:) but Go PATHENTRY ignores both noselect: and a path.

Go PATHENTRY takes dest, left or right arguments but CLI QUICKGO treats this as a word in a path and fails to find any path.

My original goal was to open the FAYT Go mode and immediately open the list of folders rather than needing to move right and inter a "" I was able to accomplish this with:
Go PATHENTRY
@sendkey:right
@sendkey:\

To get there I had to learn how CLI QUICKGO and Go PATHENTRYcurrently work.

Alternative Suggestions:

  1. Remove the sentence "This command is equivalent to CLI QUICKGO." from the Go PATHENTRY documentation. Treat them as different commands.

  2. Add all the capabilities of each one of them to the other one so they would actually be equivalent.

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Comments, anyone?

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The commands are equivalent in that they both open the path field. They aren't identical.

Go PATHENTRY predates CLI QUICKGO by quite a long time. Once the enhanced FAYT with all its different modes was added to the program, the CLI command became the main way to interact with it, and Go PATHENTRY was left untouched for compatibility reasons.

I can't really see the point of making the commands the same - you can use CLI QUICKGO if you need the additional functionality.

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Thanks. I understand the situation now.