After this thread came up I had an attentive look at my personal use of the 'Quick Rename' feature (F2).
To cut a long story short: I only change the extension for testing purposes, e. g. if I want to see, if an exe-file is a self-extracting zip-archive.
As Egbert pointet out, normally it's no big deal to mark only the name part of a filename. But it becomes a bit annoying when I decide to tidy up my harddisk-content from time to time. Then I have to rename a larger number of downloaded files with insignificant names (e.g. 45-607.pdf). These files are not related, so I cannot apply a certain pattern in batch rename. In this case it turns out to be very convenient to have only the name part preselected. In order to get this feature right now, I wrote a small script for Autoit3 (
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/). After being started the script waits for the 'Quick Rename' window to appear and then selects only the name part of the filename, i. e. it works with Salamander's F2-key and with the corresponding menu command as well.
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Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 3) ;exact match required
While 1
WinWaitActive ("Quick Rename")
Send ("{END}")
Send ("^+{LEFT}")
Send ("{LEFT}")
Send ("+{HOME}")
WinWaitClose ("Quick Rename")
WEnd
You can continue working as usual while the script is running. To close it, just kill it from the systray (left click - exit).
In my opinion the best quick rename solution would be the one used by IrfanView where the extension is displayed seperately.
To avoid misunderstandings: Servant Salamander is by far the best file manager ever.