[Thunar-dev] Minor things part $PREVIOUS++

[Benedikt Meurer]

Harold Aling wrote:
>>That's the expected behaviour. When you delete the selected item(s),
>>nothing will be selected. What you requested was that the cursor/anchor
>>should be moved to the next item, and that's what it does now.
>>
> Ah, sorry if I wasn't clear on what I suggested. I indeed would like
> thunar to select the next available item in the same view I'm deleting
> files in.

This would be rather confusing as default behaviour for ExoIconView.

> I use my keyboard a lot so if I want to delete file A and C in a list of
> (...) A B C (...), I'd like to use this key sequence: <navigate to A
> with the down arrow key><del><enter><arrow down><del><enter>

You can select multiple files at once using Ctrl/Shift, and delete them
using a single <del> key press.

Benedikt