Let users click directly on filename position with invalid char

[tobwen]

Assume I want rename a very long filename.
Therefore I oftentimes copy an URL or a text from webpage and insert it into the filename edit field.

Unfortunately the inserted filename chunks contain sometimes invalid chars like

/
:
"

A popup dialog informing me about the invalid chars.
Since my cursor position is at the end of the filename I want to re-position it at the critical position with the invalid char via mouse click.
This is not possible. The error popup re-appears.
The only way is to tap 35 times on the <left> cursor key to move the cursor to the critical position.
This interrupts my workflow and is annoying.

Can you allow re-positioning via mouse click in the next release?

Thank you

[highend]

Just cleanup your clipboard before pasting the url / string into the edit field?

E.g. via:

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copytext regexreplace(<clp>, "(/|:|[""])");

And you can put that on a button or use it as a user defined command and add a keyboard shortcut to it...

[jupe]

Not sure if you are aware of this existing option too,

Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Rename | [x] Auto-replace invalid characters

and you can set your preferred replacement char here:

Configuration | Colors and Styles | Templates | Dropped Messages | Character to replace invalid characters

[tobwen]

Not sure if you are aware of this existing option too,

Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Rename | [x] Auto-replace invalid characters

and you can set your preferred replacement char here:

Configuration | Colors and Styles | Templates | Dropped Messages | Character to replace invalid characters

This is great and better than what I expected
Thank you

[tobwen]

Sorry, I have to re-open this thread.

As I found out the suggested option works only when typing chars on keyboard.

When I paste it from clipboard then it does not work.
Can this invalid-char-prevention be applied to inserted clipboard content too?
Thank you

[admin]

Sure? Works here.