Don't commit rename when defocus

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meteorquake
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Don't commit rename when defocus

Post by meteorquake »

Typically when you are renaming something and focus to something else, the rename is committed. Explorer does this too.
It's a characteristic though that I never want to happen. If I focus to something else it's to check or grab a fragment of text to use for the renaming etc; I can't think of any scenario where you would focus to something else when you'd completed typing the name but failed to commit it, it's always a name you don't want committing yet.
I wonder if there could be (or is?) an option to prevent the name committing that currently happens :)
Cheers! David
TheBestPessimist
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Re: Don't commit rename when defocus

Post by TheBestPessimist »

Never thought about this before, but now that you mention it, i realised that annoys me too in explorer.
void
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Re: Don't commit rename when defocus

Post by void »

Restoring the label edit focus after alt tabbing or clicking back to Everything is quirky..
I will explore an option to do this.

Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, Shift + F2 to open the advanced rename.
The advanced renamer will stay opened when you alt+tab.
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