I agree the back/forward navigation is mostly ALMOST what you expect. I would actually prefer a global history across documents.
If I click into a hierarchy of nodes I expect that if I go “back” I always go back to where I was before, like the back button in a browser. Since in a browser tab you can navigate pages, it makes sense that the history is per tab. But in vvvv each page opens in a new tab, so it makes sense that if you go back you go backwards through the tabs.
This mostly works if you go like 1 or 2 hierarchies deep, but once you work across documents it usually breaks, meaning you press back multiple times, but never go back to where you were and end up having to manually find the patch.
The tabs also don’t tell/show you which document something is in, making it even more difficult.
I think one way to improve browsing patches is to actually provide an alternative to the tabs, which brings me back to the Document Panel. If it could show open files and their patches in a hierarchy, that would really help.
anyways, +1 for a global history like I in the browser. It’s sort of muscle memory, as the back/forward button on the mouse work in the browser and in vvvv. If they are the same buttons by default, I believe they should work the same way.