107135 - Support cd commands in the location bar

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Neil Marshall]

This is a post 1.0 suggestion...

I was thinking it might be interesting if you could type commands like "cd .."
in the location bar and actually have the url move up one level.  This could be
very useful with file:/// urls but it might also be useful on web pages as well.

It would be, like typing in a relative url in the location bar as opposed to an
absolute url.  And it would make the location bar closer to a command line.

There would be no dir/ls command as, in the case of file url's, the directory is
already listed below.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that there is already an RFE for a button that would effectively do "cd .."

Comment 2

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Sounds an interesting idea, but...

Comment 3

[Justin Bradford]

This request is similar to, but less functional than, the request described in
bug 88178. It is asking for support for relative url entry, which would make
this bug (minus the unnecessary 'cd ' prefix) a subset of the other bug. I say
mark it a dup  licate.

Comment 4

[m_mozilla]

here's a handy bookmarklet I picked up somewhere and put on my personal toolbar

javascript:void(location.href=location.href.substring(0,location.href.substring(0,location.href.length-1).lastIndexOf('/')+1))

it pretty much does the cd .. for you

-matt

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

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