What does Shift+ Right Arrow do and how can I disable it?

[Jorge24]

When I press Shift + Right Arrow Key or Shift + Left Arrow Key, a sort of search bar appears at the bottom where I can type in file names from the current director that get autocomplete.

What is that search bar called and can I disable it somehow?

It's a problem because in thumbnail view mode, left/right arrow keys are used to move the selection left/right so when I try to mark/highlight files by pressing Shift+Right or Shift+Left, it opens that bar at the bottom instead.

[Gral]

This "search bar" is actual COMMAND LINE.
You can disable it by adding or change "RestrictInterface" key value to "2" under [Configuration] section

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RestrictInterface=2

[Jorge24]

This "search bar" is actual COMMAND LINE.
You can disable it by adding or change "RestrictInterface" key value to "2" under [Configuration] section

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RestrictInterface=2

Thanks, although for some reason I still can't use Shift+Right/Left to mark images in thumbnail view.
The command line bar doesn't show up anymore but pressing the shortcut doesn't do anything at all now.

Any ideas?

[Jorge24]

Or maybe I should put in a bug that is not possible to shift select multiple files in thumbnail view?

[Sir_SiLvA]

Or maybe I should put in a bug that is not possible to shift select multiple files in thumbnail view?

Its not a bug so no.
How about rtm and learn that SPACE is the key to select files in thumbnail view?

[Jorge24]

Or maybe I should put in a bug that is not possible to shift select multiple files in thumbnail view?

Its not a bug so no.
How about rtm and learn that SPACE is the key to select files in thumbnail view?

I think using SPACE is fine when you want to select a few files that are not next to each other (e.g. selecting files #2, #5, and #7 out of a group of 10 files) but when you want to select several files that are next to each other being able to use Shift+Arrow Keys is much faster and convenient.

With the space method you have to press Right arrow every time to change to a file and then press space every time to mark the file.
With the shift method, you just hold down shift so the only key you have to keep pressing is right/left arrow and you can even hold down the arrow keys to select them quickly without having to press a key each time.

So to me space isn't a replacement. To me space is like what Ctrl+Click is for selecting files vs shift+clicking so not being able to shift+arrowkey select in thumbnail view feels like a bug to me.
It works fine outside of thumbnail view so why shouldn't it be supported in thumnail view as well?

[Hacker]

Jorge24,
You might want to try Insert.
Does Shift-Right work for you in Full view?

HTH
Roman

[petermad]

With the space method you have to press Right arrow every time to change to a file and then press space every time to mark the file

You can just put SpaceMovesDown=1 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini file - then space works like the Insert key.

If you really want Shift+LeftArrow and Shift +RightArrow to work for selecting/deselecting files you can put this in your usercmd.ini file (located where your wincmd.ini file is):

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[em_ReverseLeft]
cmd=cm_Reverse,cm_GoToPrev,cm_GoToPrev

and put this in the [Shortcuts] section of your wincmd.ini file:

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S+LEFT=em_ReverseLeft
S+RIGHT=cm_Reverse

[Jorge24]

@petermad thanks! that worked great!
@Hacker thanks as well!