selecting multiple files for copy/cut/delete

[pabouk]

Once you navigated away, you would lose your selection.

Such a limitation would make the multiselect useless for moving and copying files between directories. You probably wanted to say:

Once you start selection in a different directory, you would lose your old selection.

Such simplification is reasonable. I think that selection inside single directory is sufficient in most of the cases of use if you will be able to select directories beside files.

[safetydan]

Once you start selection in a different directory, you would lose your old selection.

Such simplification is reasonable. I think that selection inside single directory is sufficient in most of the cases of use if you will be able to select directories beside files.

Yeah that's what I was going for. The difficulty will be finding somewhere to store the selected items and figuring out some way to display the selection. Check marks or something similar in the list view might work for display. As for where to store the selection, perhaps a flag could be stored against the file entry in dircache? Would make this a dircache only feature though.

[Chronon]

Including this information in dircache does seem reasonable.  I have a hard time imagining that people wishing to navigate between directories for bulk copy (etc.) operations will not have this turned on already.

[gulak]

If I understand it correctly, this limitation

Once you start selection in a different directory, you would lose your old selection.

is no longer valid, with an additional flag in dircache, isn't it?
The ui selection is made in the list view, but the information, which item is selected is stored in dircache.

But you can't really say "here's my code, but you have to accept it on my unacceptable terms" then blame the project for not meeting your external conditions.

Please provide a prove to your accusation. If you can't then I expect an excuse from you.
You can quote my post, but please don't quote some nonsense from yourself and then say I said it.
And, please respect this forum's rule and stay on topic. This thread is about multiselection.

[Llorean]

But you can't really say "here's my code, but you have to accept it on my unacceptable terms" then blame the project for not meeting your external conditions.

Please provide a prove to your accusation. If you can't then I expect an excuse from you.
You can quote my post, but please don't quote some nonsense from yourself and then say I said it.
And, please respect this forum's rule and stay on topic. This thread is about multiselection.

That was a general "you" not a specific. You said the code guidelines were preventing work from being included, my statement was only that they don't prevent it. Authors choosing not to follow them prevents it.

As for on-topicness, I was responding to a post in this thread. I suppose if you follow the transitive property, it's your original statement that was off-topic. Someone's free to split these, of course.

[JdGordon]

dircache probably isnt sensible, but you maybe oculd use the regular file attributs (assuming one bit is free). you ould still be limited to only one folder but that is a good thing anyway. otherwise it owuld be too confusing.

[[Saint]]

Well, I for one would like to see this happen...

Not just for copy/cut/delete either, I imagine this would be usefull for inserting to the playlist also (like, if you wanted to add *most* of an album, but not *all* of it).


[St.]

[gulak]

I imagine this would be usefull for inserting to the playlist also (like, if you wanted to add *most* of an album, but not *all* of it).

You can do this already with the Hotkey (well, with a small modification in one line in the code).

But you can't really say "here's my code, but you have to accept it on my unacceptable terms" then blame the project for not meeting your external conditions.

No, I didn't say it.

You said the code guidelines were preventing work from being included,

No, I didn't say it.

Sorry for that Off-Topic stuff, but it's important for me, to make clear, I didn't say the nonsense I was accused of. I opened another thread, but it was deleted and I hope this won't get deleted again.
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