Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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First, in-place renaming (cm_RenameOnly / Shift+F6) is a very useful feature for me.
And the opportunity to simply switch to the next/prev file via the up/down keys is also great.

However, here is the point that hits me almost daily:

Assume there is a bunch of file with a certain filename structure:

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2022-12-02 - Logfile 1 - Server - Description.txt
2022-12-02 - Logfile 2 - Server - Description.txt
2022-12-02 - Logfile 3 - Server - Description.txt
Let’s further assume we want to change the word “Server” for every file.
  1. Starting with Logfile 1, we activate in-place renaming and change "Server" into "Whatever".
  2. When pressing the down arrow, in-place editing switches to Logfile 2 (great!) *BUT* it selects the entire file name (bad!).
    This way, we have to navigate to "Server" again – which is especially annoying for long file names.
My suggestion: When pressing Ctrl+Up/Down, just keep the position of the cursor where it was before. If the cursor was at char position x, just keep it at x.
This would make navigation in the file names faster and in-place editing way more convenient…

Any opinion on that?
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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funkymonk wrote: 2022-12-03, 08:55 UTC First, in-place renaming (cm_RenameOnly / Shift+F6) is a very useful feature for me.
And the opportunity to simply switch to the next/prev file via the up/down keys is also great.

However, here is the point that hits me almost daily:

Assume there is a bunch of file with a certain filename structure:

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2022-12-02 - Logfile 1 - Server - Description.txt
2022-12-02 - Logfile 2 - Server - Description.txt
2022-12-02 - Logfile 3 - Server - Description.txt
Let’s further assume we want to change the word “Server” for every file.
  1. Starting with Logfile 1, we activate in-place renaming and change "Server" into "Whatever".
  2. When pressing the down arrow, in-place editing switches to Logfile 2 (great!) *BUT* it selects the entire file name (bad!).
    This way, we have to navigate to "Server" again – which is especially annoying for long file names.
My suggestion: When pressing Ctrl+Up/Down, just keep the position of the cursor where it was before. If the cursor was at char position x, just keep it at x.
This would make navigation in the file names faster and in-place editing way more convenient…

Any opinion on that?
(for such a thing the multirename tool (CTRL+M) is better. there you would just enter search: Server, replace: whatever)
apart from that support++
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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funkymonk,
I can imagine it would be useful to me in other cases as well. Support++.

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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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Sir_SiLvA wrote: 2022-12-03, 13:07 UTC
(for such a thing the multirename tool (CTRL+M) is better. there you would just enter search: Server, replace: whatever)
apart from that support++
That is not what I meant. "Whatever" is just a placeholder for different strings. Thus, the multirename tool (CTRL+M) is not suitable.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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Just open your favorite text editor from MRT and do all the changes there, if the 'whatever' string is different for each file.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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funkymonk wrote: 2022-12-04, 13:40 UTCThus, the multirename tool (CTRL+M) is not suitable.
Why not use ranges? [N1,25]Whatever[N32,] in this case.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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Fla$her wrote: 2022-12-06, 02:56 UTC
funkymonk wrote: 2022-12-04, 13:40 UTCThus, the multirename tool (CTRL+M) is not suitable.
Why not use ranges? [N1,25]Whatever[N32,] in this case.
The lengths of the strings to be replaced or that will replace are not always the same. Thus, constant char positions in MRT are not helpful.
True, that was not visible in the original example -- sorry, I wanted to keep it simple.

Anyways: It would be great to keep the cursor at the same position where it was on the file before, just to avoid manual seeking through the entire file name. That would really help, especially for long filenames.

Thus: Up/Down would behave as before but Ctrl+Up/Down would keep the cursor at the same position.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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Why not use the menu button - edit names in the multi-rename tool? This gives you the full power of a text editor of your choice. Just make sure to not insert or delete any lines.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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ghisler(Author) wrote: 2023-01-03, 09:51 UTC Why not use the menu button - edit names in the multi-rename tool? This gives you the full power of a text editor of your choice.
I use the editor option every now and then when renaming a bigger number of files. However, in most cases i just have to rename 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 files. Then, the option with the editor is simply overkill and does not mean any speed up.

I'm contrast, the suggested feature (Ctrl+up/down in inline renaming) would certainly mean a speed up (to me at least).

I would really appreciate this feature as I miss it very often, i.e. every second day. Thank you in advance.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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ghisler(Author) wrote: 2023-01-03, 09:51 UTC Why not use the menu button
Why isn't this menu available as a standard context menu? There should work both right mouse click (on the file list) and "Context menu" key there.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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It's not a "per file" option, so it's not shown as a context menu for individual files.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names (keep the position of the cursor)

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Context menu in general is NOT limited to per file options only. Right click any TC panel and you will see "Search...” in the context menu. Right click free space and you will see different set of context menu options (also with "Search..." present).
MRT ignores these possibilities and shows nothing in such cases:
- when nothing is selected on the list (open MRT and simply right click any line on the list);
- when you right click the free space below the directory/file list.
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Re: Improvement for in-place editing of file names

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Sir_SiLvA wrote: 2022-12-03, 13:07 UTC(for such a thing the multirename tool (CTRL+M) is better. there you would just enter search: Server, replace: whatever)
That!
Sir_SiLvA wrote: 2022-12-03, 13:07 UTCapart from that support++
And that too!
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