[plug] UI idea

[Cameron Patrick]

Chris Caston wrote:

> Has anyone ever considered having a check box next to each file? When
> you tick the check box file is selected. When you untick it the file is
> deselected. You could also have a "select all" button.

What you describe is remarkably similar to what Norton Commander used
to do (and its Linux clone, Midnight Commander, does something like it
too).  You select a file and hit "insert" and it places a little tick
next to it and moves down to the next file.  "*" would toggle the
tickedness of all files in the directory.  I'm pretty sure there was a
way of marking files that matched a particular regexp too.  If any
files were ticked, operations like copy, move and delete would then
use all of the ticked files instead of (as well as?) the one currently
highlighted.

Cameron