I had been looking for a way to do this, but my attempts to comment-out everything modifying the url hash were pretty disastrous.

Hey I am having problems getting this to work, in fact I can't get any functions that you have posted to work properly which makes me think I am missing some sort of vital information on how to properly set them up despite looking at several tutorials.

Here is what I have in my start panel;

<<silently>>

<<set $CaveState = 0>>

(function(){
var bs = String.fromCharCode(92);
Wikifier.formatters.unshift({
    name: "continuedLine",
    match: bs+bs+"s",
    handler: function(a) {
        a.nextMatch = a.matchStart+3;
    }
});
}());

History.prototype.display=function(d,b,a){var c=tale.get(d);this.history.unshift({passage:c,variables:clone(this.history[0].variables)});
this.history[0].hash=this.save();var e=c.render();if(a!="offscreen"){removeChildren(document.getElementById("passages"));
document.getElementById("passages").appendChild(e);if(a!="quietly"){fade(e,{fade:"in"});}}if((a=="quietly")||(a=="offscreen")){e.style.visibility="visible";
}if(a!="offscreen"){document.title=tale.title;document.title+=": "+c.title;window.scroll(0,0);
}return e;};

History.prototype.restart=function(){window.location.reload();};macros["return"]=macros.back={handler:function(a,b,e){
var el,d="";var steps=1;if(e[0]){if(e[1]=="steps"){if(isNaN(e[0])){throwError(a,"parameter before 'steps' must be a number.");
return;}else{if(e[0]<state.history.length){d=state.history[e[0]].passage.title;steps=e[0];
}}}else{if(tale.get(e[0]).id==undefined){throwError(a,"The "+e[0]+" passage does not exist");
return;}for(var c=0;c<state.history.length;c++){if(state.history[c].passage.title==e[0]){d=e[0];
steps=c;break;}}}}else{d=state.history[1].passage.title;}if(!d){return;
}else{el=document.createElement("a");el.className="return";el.onclick=function(){if(b=="back"){while(steps>=0){if(state.history.length>1){state.history.shift();
}steps--;}}state.display(d);};el.href="javascript:void(0)";el.innerHTML="<b>«</b> "+b[0].toUpperCase()+b.slice(1);
a.appendChild(el);}}};Interface.buildSnapback=function(){var c=false;removeChildren(document.getElementById("snapbackMenu"));
for(var a=state.history.length-1;a>=0;a--){if(state.history[a].passage&&state.history[a].passage.tags.indexOf("bookmark")!=-1){var b=document.createElement("div");
b.pos=a;b.onclick=function(){var p=this.pos;var n=state.history[p].passage.title;
while(p>=0){if(state.history.length>1){state.history.shift();}p--;}state.display(n);
};b.innerHTML=state.history[a].passage.excerpt();document.getElementById("snapbackMenu").appendChild(b);
c=true;}}if(!c){var b=document.createElement("div");b.innerHTML="<i>No passages available</i>";
document.getElementById("snapbackMenu").appendChild(b);}};

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You can see I am using both your 'eliminate back button' code and the one that allows the '\' key to eliminate line breaks, but neither work in my story. (The '\' key actually results in '\s')

Any direction would be greatly appreciated for a brand new Twiner!