Why are the projects divided into opened and closed when the same value is saved in the entries' "action" anyway? about filehistory HOT 4 CLOSED

The open and closed lists are separated basically for sorting purposes. The main purpose of the plugin is to provide better access to the files that have been closed, and these files should be first in the quick panel list and by chronological order. I think this is important. The opened files basically provide quick access to the files that you have open and should be at the end of the quick panel list.

I guess we could append the opened files to the end of the list, but then it is more difficult to discard the old history entries when the list starts getting large (see settings global_max_entries and project_max_entries). Keeping the lists separate makes sorting and list size maintenance simple and combining them is also easy.

Personally I would like to keep it the way it is.

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Okay, if that's what it's supposed to do (list opened after closed) then it's okay since it makes it easier to work with the separate lists. For some reason I never really understood why opened files were saved at all but the most practical usecase seems to be when working with multiple projects.

However, we can remove the action key in this case.

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We use the action key in the quick panel to show whether the user opened or closed that file last. If we remove this key then we lose the context (opened or closed) when we combine the two lists together.

Yes, the opened files are very helpful when working on multiple projects.

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Pushed changes to no_action_key branch.

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