XYplorer Beta Club

Mesh wrote:

admin wrote:
"The focused one should be completely ignored" is against the very definition of focus. In Windows the focus is on the item that will be acted on. Everything out of focus should be ignored.

If there are no selections, then the focused item is the one to use. But if there are selected items, they should take preference over any focused items, because the selected items will be the ones deliberately acted upon by the user. That's why.

I think F2 being inline-rename which by its nature acts upon one item is aptly defined as working on the focused item. If you want to act on multiple items you use Batch Rename (Shift+F2) which is defined as working on the selected items. All clean and neat.

admin wrote:
I think F2 being inline-rename which by its nature acts upon one item is aptly defined as working on the focused item. If you want to act on multiple items you use Batch Rename (Shift+F2) which is defined as working on the selected items. All clean and neat.

I understand that. But I must admit that I probably would have simply gone the route of renaming the first selected item, rather than working on the focused item - for the same reason - that if there's a selection, the user deliberately made that selection. The focused item has nothing to do (most of the time) with what the user has chosen to act upon.

Well.

Now, 10 months later, I must admit I don't like the new renaming behavior (In a nutshell: F2 now always inline-renames the focused item and does not change any selections.). I just cannot get used to it.

So, who will cry when I take it back? Or better: Should I provide a tweak that allows to keep the new renaming behavior from v9.20.0006?

Generally I act always on selected items only, not on focused.

This patch (F2 = rename focused only) i never had used.
I use F2 on an selected item and Shift+F2 on an group of selected items.

So i F2 works as
if one item is selected THEN in-line rename this item
if an group is selected THEN call batch rename (based on the tweak)
it would be fine with me.

tweak wrote: ; Tweak: Set to b|r|s|k|e
to open Batch[Default]|RegExp|SearchReplace|KeepChars|SetExtension
when calling Rename on multiple files.
MultipleRenameDefault=

Yes, exactly like this.

So i F2 works as
if one item is selected THEN in-line rename this item
if an group is selected THEN call batch rename (based on the tweak)
it would be fine with me.

And Shift+F2 rename focused item, independently from selection

I'm a very late comer to this discussion but, for what it's worth, I never put any semantic value to "focused item" in regards to a directory list, only selected item.

So my guess would be an extension of Stefen's: