Re: Right click and selection

In article <[email protected]>,
   Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's something I don't like about ROX's current behaviour. If you
> have one or more files/directories selected and right-click over another
> file that isn't selected, the selection doesn't change and any actions
> in the menu apply to the previous selection instead of the item you've
> just clicked.

> I can't remember what RISC OS does/did, but I'm pretty sure most other
> file managers replace the selection with the item you've clicked over
> and it's what I'd expect to happen. I've accidentally deleted the wrong
> thing at least once. Please could this feature be changed.

> Another feature of other file managers I miss in ROX is shift-click to
> select everything between the current selection and the clicked item.

     At the risc of being labelled anti-social, that particular feature of
file managers is one thing which I absolutely hate (it only gets used by
accident). My reasoning? My definition of the word 'between' is particular
to a given context - most often it is not what the file system 'thinks' it
is.

                         Keith

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