Different behaviour for marking parts of file names...

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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Different behaviour for marking parts of file names...

Post by *spooky0815 »

Hi,

I know, that this bug is not critical, but I want to give you a feedback.

If you want to rename a file, you press shift-F6. Then you are able to jump between the words via Ctrl-Left / Ctrl-Right. The Cursor stop at the beginning of each word and TC detects special characters like "-" (minus).

When you want to copy / move a file via F5 or F6, the pop-up dialog also allows to rename the file. But here, special characters like "-" are NOT detected when you jump between the words via Ctrl-left / Ctrl-right.

For me, it is an important feature for organising my media :)

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Post by *umbra »

Hi,
actually I see the opposite. Shift+F6 ignores most of the delimiters (but '-' works) while F5, F6 recognizes all delimiters ('-', but also '.', '_', ...). It would be better, if this behavior was unified.
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I confirm that both in-place (Shift+F6) and regular (F6) move dialogs handle '-' character, but only regular one handles other delimiters like '.' and '_'. I agree that same procedure should be used for Ctrl+Arrows in all dialogs.
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

Unfortunately Windows edit controls behave differently when they have auto-complete and when they don't have it. The only way to get a common behaviour would be to turn off Auto-Complete.
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Post by *MVV »

But we talk that F6 edit (with auto-complete) works better than Shift+F6 edit (w/o auto-complete). :)
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

Yes, but how should I add auto-complete to Shift+F6? Doesn't make much sense...
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ghisler(Author) wrote:Yes, but how should I add auto-complete to Shift+F6?
IIRC, you already implemented something similar by adding auto-complete to an editbox and keeping the autocomplete list empty because it did not make much sense there. This way Ctrl+left/right navigation works better while auto-complete list did not appear.
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