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Unity back & forward navigation in editor

atm Unity doesn’t support the go back button on the mouse to navigate selection

current best workaround:
https://github.com/BedtimeDigitalGames/Unity-Editor-History
supports mouse back & forward

other solutions
  • request on forum for back button (2024)
  • script that adds buttons to inspector to go back to previous selections
  • unity forum post with download to back & forward button in inspector (2020)
  • github repo back & forward button 2018, only works in 2 panel mode
  • github repo selection back & forward commands (2019)
    • adds to menu, mouse, and buttons. includes nice documentation
    • report of some code issues
  • third party repo, no mouse navigation, but a editor window
    • select asset (this is added to the selection history tab)
    • go to the selection history tab and select the previous asset
  • unity-cutcopypaste-nav

UX
most recent

forum thread from ex Unity dev.

  • lists various solutions
  • most solutions don’t handle multi selection
  • official feature request is now marked as released

this feature is a great example of a local tool