Select files with the 'Insert' key

[keygen]

Noob question, but I couldn't find a solution after searching..

How do I assign the Insert key to "select file and move to the next one"? (like in TC, FC..)

[Pepper]

Do you mean SHIFT - ARROW UP or DOWN ?

[Mathias (Author)]

That is the normal commander style setup..
Menu > Configuration > Quick Look'n'Feel Setup

And select Commander Styled Look'n'Feel and it will configure everything for the commander styled setup.

If you Only want to change the 'insert' key then you can change it you self in
Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings

Under Selection and Checking items.
make sure that "Auto uncheck files and folder when single selection" is

[keygen]

If you Only want to change the 'insert' key then you can change it you self in
Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings

Under Selection and Checking items.
make sure that "Auto uncheck files and folder when single selecting" is unchecked

That was it, thanks.

Do you mean SHIFT - ARROW UP or DOWN ?

Similar, but with Insert you can skip some files..

[keygen]

I noticed an inconsistency when using this:

After selecting some files with Insert, the focus will be on the file below them. If I then delete/copy the selection, it will work as intended: The currently focused file below them is not selected and will not get processed (copied/deleted) together with the selected files.

But when selecting them with Insert and then using the context menu, that focused file will get processed with the others (for example: it will get packed together with the others into a 7zip archive).

[Mathias (Author)]

MultiCommander is made to follow the commander styled setup first. The Windows Explorer Style setup is there for compatibility. but it is not 100% and it sometimes conflicts with the commander style setup. Specially if you start out in Windows Explorer Setup and then start to customized away options that enabled that. I will see if it can be resolved without breaking anything with commander style setup.

But Im not able to recreate your problem but Im not sure exactly of your problem.  But I guess it might be the Selected vs Checked issue.
Try enable checkboxes. When copy files only checked files will be copied.. (if there are multiple files checked)

[keygen]

Yeah, I think you already know what I mean, but just to clarify and how to reproduce easily. If you have 7zip installed (or I think any program that adds a similar context menu):
1. select a few files with Insert
2. press the context menu button (to the left of the right Ctrl)
3. navigate to 7zip and add the files to an archive

All the Insert-selected files and the currently focused-selected file will be added. If I enable checkboxes in the settings, I can see that the last file gets checked when pressing the context menu button.

When using copy/delete it's different, the last file (the not Insert-selected one) is properly ignored.


So, in short: the context menu creates a slightly unexpected behavior.

[GrantSP]

This sounds very similar to the situation I found as noted here:
http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,431.0.html