GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 639243
Two-Click Renaming (Feature Request)
Last modified: 2011-02-23 18:16:38 UTC
I don't find any keyboard shortcuts for renaming files, and RightClick->Rename becomes a pain very quickly. Suggested: If the user LeftClicks on a file which is already selected and the double-click timeout has expired, the filename is highlighted for in-place editing, just like Rename does when selected from the context menu. Cheers.
CTRL+M for batch renaming and SHIFT+F6 (or just F2) for renaming in-place...
Thanks for your reply. You're right, F2 or Shift-F6 are the ones I was looking for. These don't appear in the menus, on the bottom row of buttons or in the manual page. Would it be possible to add any existing keyboard shortcuts to the context (right-click) menu? That would certainly help. In Settings->Keyboard_Shortcuts they don't appear either. I have F6 Rename files but it actually brings up a file moving tool. I should have looked in the application help files. One looks wrong but the other is good:- F2 Refresh files in the active file list SHIFT+F6 Rename a file I can appreciate that this kind of thing gets out of control with so many different places to look for the answer and Gnome shortcuts to worry about as well. It's great that the manual page lists the location and function of the user configuration files though. [Most don't.] My config file has some shortcuts listed and is probably from a previous version but I don't think I changed them. Thanks again and Regards.
Created attachment 180874 [details] screenshot gcmd already has context menu for renaming files (see attached screensshot). As for misleading docs for F2 - fixed. Thank you for your bug report.
Thanks for the changes. Sorry if my suggestion about the context menu wasn't clear. What I meant was that where it says "Rename" there, it would be great if it could say "Rename (F2)", i.e. teaching the user about the shortcuts. Cheers.