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Posted: 05 May 2006, 15:02
by AbteriX
Tomas Kopal wrote:
SHIFT+HOME in step 4) will take care of the spaces, but the key is a bit farther away
.
We use
3.) CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT
to select the name part only (start from pos1)
and
4.) SHIFT+LEFT
to de-select the dot (to have the name part only)
SHIFT+HOME
makes no sense here, 'cus the hole file name will be selected, not only the name part.
Or did i miss some trick?
Posted: 05 May 2006, 15:11
by Tomas Kopal
AbteriX wrote:
SHIFT+HOME
makes no sense here, 'cus the hole file name will be selected, not only the name part.
Or did i miss some trick?
Ooops, sorry, I didn't read it right, just ignore me
.
Posted: 05 May 2006, 15:33
by AbteriX
Tomas Kopal wrote:
just ignore me
.
No,
you are welcome
Posted: 05 May 2006, 15:44
by KNUT
Tomas Kopal wrote:[...] just ignore me
Done
Posted: 08 May 2006, 14:46
by egbert
ok ok, I withdraw my proposal
Posted: 12 May 2006, 22:53
by Klettermaxe
egbert wrote:ok ok, I withdraw my proposal
Absolutely not necessary. I like your idea because it would provide a
really quick and easy way of renaming a file.
Posted: 16 May 2006, 00:18
by egbert
Klettermaxe wrote:egbert wrote:ok ok, I withdraw my proposal
Absolutely not necessary. I like your idea because it would provide a
really quick and easy way of renaming a file.
Right, let's try to convince those keyboard artists
Posted: 15 Nov 2006, 14:33
by Klettermaxe
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.