Total Commander

This is a topic that has been discussed a lot from what i've seen in the forum. I'd like to add a wish. I'm not sure it has not been asked before but a quick search did not help so i'm posting it: when in in-line rename mode, right-clicking outside the rename-box should act as if ENTER has pressed (save the new name). It would help very much if the mouse is used to activate in-line rename and do a simple edit (like adding one character).

I'm not sure I would agree, as it would change existing behaviour. As it is people are used to a rename being cancelled by right clicking another file. If this changes, they would wonder why it wasn't.

One thing I would be about inline renaming, is for it not to cancel when another operation finishes. Say you start unpacking a rar file or copy a something in the background and then use inline renaming. As soon as the other dialog closes, the lister is refreshed and your rename is cancelled. Annoying.

mnerec wrote:I'm not sure I would agree, as it would change existing behaviour. As it is people are used to a rename being cancelled by right clicking another file. If this changes, they would wonder why it wasn't.

The in-line renaming is canceled if you left-click somewhere outside the rename area. That's why i suggested right-clicking. Currently, when right-clicking, the default popup-menu appears.

mnerec wrote:One thing I would be about inline renaming, is for it not to cancel when another operation finishes. Say you start unpacking a rar file or copy a something in the background and then use inline renaming. As soon as the other dialog closes, the lister is refreshed and your rename is cancelled. Annoying.

I know. Many people find this annoying. There are some things that can be done for this though. There is a way to stop the panels from automatically refreshing ("Noreread" ini option).

Wow, i just noticed: in TC7betas, there is a new "Refresh" option in the Configuration! No more direct-ini-editing...

Edit: I think your wish has been granted! Check the "Refresh" option out.

wanderer wrote:Wow, i just noticed: in TC7betas, there is a new "Refresh" option in the Configuration! No more direct-ini-editing...

Edit: I think your wish has been granted! Check the "Refresh" option out.

Golly! It looks like you're right! Thank you wanderer, and thank you Ghisler

There seem to be a tiny bug in it though:
* If you have files A, B & C and make TC move file A in the background while you inline rename B,
* then when moving A is finished, B & C are moved one line up visually, except that the inline rename of B is visually in the same place as before.
* That means line 1 shows B and line 2 shows the inline rename of B.

mnerec wrote:Golly! It looks like you're right! Thank you wanderer, and thank you Ghisler

You're welcome. The "thanks" of course go to Christian.

mnerec wrote:There seem to be a tiny bug in it though:

Interesting. I'll try to reproduce it. I suggest you report this as a bug though in the TC7 Bugs forum.

wanderer wrote:I suggest you report this as a bug though in the TC7 Bugs forum.

Done.

wanderer wrote:

mnerec wrote:There seem to be a tiny bug in it though:

Interesting. I'll try to reproduce it. I suggest you report this as a bug though in the TC7 Bugs forum.

Well, this does not occur in TC7pb3. Have you seen this in TC6.56?

wanderer wrote:when in in-line rename mode, right-clicking outside the rename-box should act as if ENTER has pressed (save the new name).

Any chance on that? It's very useful, especially if you have a few files to rename (minor changes) and use both keyboard and mouse. After all, seeing the context menu of the file while in rename mode doesn't seem very useful.

Thanx.

I'm not against such feature, but please only as an option, because I personally prefer that only pressing ENTER executes the renaming. Any other action should cancel it.

Agree to StickyNomad: only optional please.
Accidentally typed text could otherwise get applied too easy without noticing it.

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Accidentally typed text could otherwise get applied too easy without noticing it.

Direct hit! That's exactly my point

StickyNomad wrote:but please only as an option

That is acceptable since it would be better than what we have now (which is nothing! )