Hints and Tips ( History Editor )

Hints and Tips (History Editor)

History sections list

The following table describe Total Commander history sections in Wincmd.ini file and their display name in the program left panel.

Nr.	Display Name	Wincdm.ini Name
1	Command Line	[Command line history]
2	Selection	[Selection]
3	Search for:	[SearchName]
4	Search in:	[SearchIn]
5	Find text:	[SearchText]
6	Load/Save	[Searches]
7	Rename mask:	[RenameTemplates]
8	Rename Search for:	[RenameSearchFind]
9	Rename Replace with:	[RenameSearchReplace]
10	F2 Load/Save	[Rename]
11	Left Tabs	[LeftTabs]
12	Right Tabs	[RightTabs]
13	Left history	[LeftHistory]
14	Right history	[RightHistory]
15	New Directory	[MkDirHistory]
16	Synchronize Options	[SyncOptions]
17	Plugin Attributes	[AttrPlugin]
18	Split Sizes	[SplitPerFile]

Command Line Parameters:

Use command line parameters to clean Wincmd.ini silently without showing the program interface
History Editor.exe [/i=name.ini] [/s={all | number; number; number}] [/b= name.ini] [/r] [/o]

/i Specify another Wincmd.ini file instead of the default one.
/s Specify the section number that you want to delete, this number refer to the section number as it is appear in the program left panel. (see above table)
To delete all history sections at once use /s=all
/b Specify a file to backup history sections before deleting.
/o Overwrite the old history.
/r Restart Total Commander if it is running.

Example:

History Editor.exe /s= 1;2;4;7;11;12

Run silently and delete [Command line history]; [Selection]; [SearchIn]; [RenameTemplates]; [LeftTabs] and [RightTabs] sections in the default Wincmd.ini file.

History Editor.exe /i=C:\Wincmd.ini /s= 1;2;4;7;11;12 /b= C:\TC_history_backup.ini

Run silently and delete [Command line history]; [Selection]; [SearchIn]; [RenameTemplates]; [LeftTabs] and [RightTabs] sections in C:\Wincmd.ini file and backup them to C:\TC_history_backup.ini file before deleting.

You don't have to restart Total Commander to apply changes you did it in all sections except for the following sections:

Command Line
Left Tabs
Right Tabs

You cannot arrange items in the following two sections:

Load/Save
F2 Load/Save

This is because Total Commander show the contents of these two sections as sorted list.

You cannot add new items to the following four sections:

Load/Save
F2 Load/Save
Left Tabs
Right Tabs

This is because there are many properties for each item under these sections you must set them using Total Commander.

Be sure that Total Commander is not running while saving changes you did in the following three sections, otherwise you will lose these changes when you close Total Commander.

Command Line
Left Tabs
Right Tabs

The program will use a section icon for its contents, if you dislike this and want back to the old look:

Run any text editor program (e.g. Notepad) and open the program INI file "ultra tc editors.ini"
Create the key UseSectionIcon under [HistoryEditor] section.
Set the key UseSectionIcon value to 0

The program will accept to add up to only 20 items under a history section, to change this limit:

Run any text editor program (e.g. Notepad) and open the program INI file "ultra tc editors.ini"
Create the key MaxItems under [HistoryEditor] section.
Set the key MaxItems value to your desired number.

Note: Total Commander will read the first 20 items only.

The icon of the active tab will be dummy. If you delete the active tab, the first item will be set as active tab. (Active tab is the selected tab when you close Total Commander).

Press Enter key after changing a tab caption to switch to the next tab.

In the right panel, if you cannot see the whole item text, you can press Ctrl + Num+

You can arrange the items in section by drag and drop or by toolbar buttons Up and Down.