Total Commander

Sorry if this topic has been up previously, but after changing this in the options for the trillionth time I'm getting tired of it...!

daNorse wrote:Sorry if this topic has been up previously, but after changing this in the options for the trillionth time I'm getting tired of it...!

This has been discussed a million times before. So I am getting a bit tired of reading about it again and again. <yawn>
This is a change request and not a bug report, because <F2> does exactly what Ghisler told it to do: reread the current folder. Only a lot of users would like <F2> to perform the same action as in Windows Explorer, i.e. rename a file/folder.
We even had a poll about this change request.
But it has not been implemented for some reason or for no good reason at all.

Karl

wincmd.ini wrote:[Shortcuts]
F2=cm_RenameSingleFile

HTH
Holger

Hi, Holger.

daNorse knows how to change the <F2> key, he is just tired of doing so.
And he might not be the only one: Should F2 become the default for renaming? (The poll was started in Nov. 2003, guess by whom. )

Karl

Hi Karl

daNorse wrote:... but after changing this in the options for the trillionth time ...

I assume there is a difference between options(Dialog) and wincmd.ini.
And sorry, don't know how many other settings he changed again and again.
Maybe someone should give him a hint how to make the wincmd.ini portable.

Holger

[mod]Moved to the Suggestions forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]

Karl thanks for the support -- looks like things arnt moving too fast... but if you wait for something good you dont wait in vain as the saying goes... Just want to say that some things in life are standardaized to make life easier ... something you just expect to behave in a certain way.. like F1 gives the help text and that F2 will change the freaking filename...

And Holger I know all about wincmd.ini -- its just that every time I install TC on a new machine of a friend or whatever (you see Im a big fan of TC since '97 - before I used NC) ...BUT I dont carry with me a cd to do so -- I just download from the Internet... But thanks for the effort anyway...

Support++

Another argument, listed in Christian's poll (see karlchen's link above), is that not only we, TC users, need that, but perhaps also TC needs that, to help it win more users. As I said in the other thread, I know tech-oriented guys, who (surprisingly for me) do not use TC, even though they know about it. And I bet in many cases it's for stupid reasons like the difference of hotkeys that annoyed them first time they tried it.

I use the oportunity to also suggest that the fonts get standardsed to what i the most commonly used ones....