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.

I know I can just bring up a menu, but it's not _quite_ as convenient...

I had a look through the mailing list, couldn't find anything related in
any of the previous topics so it must be hidden in one of the many long
"new release" threads, which I'll search through later.

What would be just perfect is if there was an alternative keybinding to
open _all_ files selected rather than just the first one, similarly
another thing which could be useful is if you could select which of the
apps associated with a file to open that filetype with, for example by
providing "2" as an argument to file.open to have it open the file(s) with
the second app in that filetype's list, and by defaulting to the first it
wouldn't even change the default behaviour as it is now.

I absolutely understand why this (safety blanket) is the default
behaviour, it is a sensible default, but a simple way around it would be
nice for those who know what they're doing (or at least, those who like to
believe they do ;) ).

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