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feat: navigation stack with back/forward buttons, hotkeys, and mouse support#79
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…support - Add NavEntry type, navHistory and navIndex fields to WorkspaceState - Add navBack / navForward actions; openFile pushes to history - Register navigate-back (Alt+Left) and navigate-forward (Alt+Right) commands - Listen for mouse buttons 3/4 (browser back/forward) to dispatch nav actions - Add back/forward arrow buttons to Ribbon near the search input - Add ribbon-nav CSS for the new buttons - Add unit tests for all navigation stack scenarios Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Add navigation stack for browser-like functionality
feat: navigation stack with back/forward buttons, hotkeys, and mouse support
Aug 28, 2026
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Users navigating with mouse back/forward buttons (or keyboard) had no way to move through visited notes. This adds a global navigation history stack wired to the Ribbon, hotkeys, and mouse side-buttons.
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WorkspaceStategainsnavHistory: NavEntry[]andnavIndex: numberopenFilepushes{ path, title }to history; consecutive identical paths are collapsed; opening after going back truncates forward entries; history capped at 100Actions
navBack/navForwardmove the pointer and activate/re-open the entry without re-pushing to historyUI — Ribbon
←/→arrow buttons appear beside the search input (VS Code placement); disabled + dimmed when no history exists in that direction:Input wiring
navBacknavForwardnavigate-backcommandnavigate-forwardcommandBoth hotkeys are user-rebindable via the existing hotkey system.