X Northern Captain Bookmark

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X Northern Captain Bookmark is very usefull, simple and helpfull feature. It was constructed for storing Hot Dirs - directory names which very often used by user. Bookmark can store up to 9 Hot Dirs including AFS archieves. These 9 books shown inthe right side of the panels. Each book displayed its number and type of storing name (DFS - disk file system i.e directory; ARC - archieve). To see detailed information about book just locate mouse pointer on it and popup help shows full pathname. D'n'd feature allow You easy add/delete or switch to needed book.
  • To Add directory/archieve to bookmark just press on that dir or on panel header then drag it to bookmark and drop on the empty space. Another way is to press 'AddToBookmark' [Alt+b] key or press assigned book number with 'Alt'. [Alt+b] adds book to first empty space in bookmark.
  • To Delete book from bookmark drag it to recycle bin and drop on it.
  • To Switch to book press on it by mouse or activate via 'SwitchToBook*' hotkey (default [Alt- 1-9]).

First eight books are normal storing books, but nineth book - swap book. This means that this book store last switched on bookmark directory.
For example:

    Your current directory '/root'.
    You switch to book 2 ('/home/user1').
    Now current directory '/home/user1'.
    You do some operations there and want to return to '/root'.
    Press on book9 - swap book - and You again at '/root'

There is one limitation for archieves: Only full archieve pathname adds to bookmark, not an internal arhieve dir. Switching to archieve You always see top archieve level directory.

Author Leonid V. Khramov
leo@pop.convey.ru
St-Petersburg
Russia
1997