Re: A couple of things...

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:25:08 +0200
"Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 7/9/08, tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > #3: I'm pretty sure with 0.0.9 you could select and open multiple files
> >  > normally _without_ opening the context menu, but now emelfm2 only opens
> >  > the first file selected.
> >  > I can understand why you'd want to do this, but is there any way to
> >  > re-enable the old functionality?
> >
> > No. It's a "safety blanket". It's too easy to select different sorts of 
> > things and then activate them. With the context menu, at least you have to 
> > think again about what you're doing.
> >
> On this point it was once suggested on this list to use a <ctrl>+enter
> binding which triggers by default (I think) the open.with dialogue,
> which has preselected the default file.open action. This is how I go
> around the "safety blanket".
Seems to me that this approach would save the user just one <Down> keypress 
compared to opening a context menu.

<Ctrl>p (for file lists) or menu-key (anywhere) will open a context menu from 
the keyboard.

Regards
Tom


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