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Backspace in Open File Dialog

#1

When I open the ‘Open File’ dialog I expect to be able to navigate up the folder hierarchy using backspace. This does not work. Is this not supported, or does it just not work for me?
Turning on debug commands indicates the key is ‘left_delete’, although nothing is printed at all in the console with the dialog open.

I am running Linux, debian 12.

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#2

Sublime uses native file dialogs (on Linux, that would be GTK3 dialogs). If that’s a feature of those dialogs, then that should work I would imagine.

If they don’t do that by default then there would need to be some customization to GTK to allow it.

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#3

Thanks. Got it working following https://askubuntu.com/questions/1046296/navigate-to-parent-folder-with-backspace-key-in-open-file-dialog

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