[Wish] Improved renaming of files

[stanis]

In standard rename/move dialog in can jump with cursor over words in path/filename when I press Ctrl + left/right. But in Shift + F6 rename function Ctrl + left/right makes only that the cursor jumps to start or end of the filename.

Please, is it possible to make it same as in rename/move dialog - jumps with Ctrl + l/r over words? Thanks a lot

[SanskritFritz]

2stanis
As a workaround, you can use this method:
http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/AutoHotkey:_Inplace_rename_with_dialog

[StickyNomad]

I also miss the improved 'character stopping' with inplace rename _very_ often.
At least the often used filename-separators underscore and minus ( _ , -) should act as stop-characters here in addition to whitespaces.

And when inplace-rename a file in branch view, one should be able to CTRL-jump to the first backslash in the shown path, thus easily reaching the beginning of the filename. To make it short: inplace rename should accept the same stop-characters than the copy/move dialog IMO.

As this was already requested a while ago, I hope it is still on the Authors wishlist. If not: Christian, please?

[hambaba]

support

[WatchUer]

Support too!

[wanderer]

Fully agree, especially with the "branch-view" wish.

[capebio]

Hi - had quick look on forum and couldn't find anything on this topic
- could it be an original thought?

TC seems to have missed out a fairly obvious function for synchronising, namely to compare to directories with different / changed filenames, and to update the one name based on the old file, without updating the file itself. Why?
Scenario:
You have a laptop you take with you everywhere, but it has limited hard drive space. You therefore backup your images to an external harddisk. After this you resize the images on your laptop so they fit on your meagre 100gb harddrive. Subsequently you update the image names on your laptop, but not your external. Now you have a problem... if you synchronise with the external, you will either make your backups much smaller with an updated name or make your laptop images much bigger with the outdated name

Would something like this be possible?
I see that the files would be different, so comparing file contents would be out. Is there any way to do it based on exif info (I don't suppose TC can deal with exif?)
Any helpful suggestions?
Shot
Dave

[StatusQuo]

Please search the forum for "exif plugin" or "exif date" to find postings like this:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=88389&highlight=exif+plugin#88389
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=94331&highlight=exif+plugin#94331

[icfu]

Why hasn't this been implemented in TC 7?
Explorer has no problems with inline renaming and support of stopper chars.

Icfu

[sas2000]

Support ++

[StatusQuo]

At least the often used filename-separators underscore and minus ( _ , -) should act as stop-characters here in addition to whitespaces.

Please avoid this "feature" (at least optionally) wherever possible.
This can be a real torture with file names like

c:\path\host_10-0-0-1_255-255-0-0.cfg

or

c:\path\http-www-host-com-pub-tools-packer-somename-versions-1-1-2.html

related thread

[fenix_productions]

As StatusQuo wrote: it could be optional.

Code: Select all

EditMovement=X

where:
0 - old method (default),
1 - new method.

Currently I am thinking about next step:
- if user points to "1" TC could search for

Code: Select all

EditMovementChars=XYZ

where:
XYZ - whatever characters you like.
It the case "EditMovementChars" would not be specified, every special character should be important (as described above).

[StatusQuo]

2fenix_productions

EditMovementChars=XYZ

That sounds like a great solution, satisfying all needs. Support+++

[leopoldus]

Support+++++

P.S.
StatusQuo, you can find a solution for your objection at the related thread

[StatusQuo]

2leopoldus

StatusQuo, you can find a solution for your objection at the related thread

Not really, but thanks anyway.