Mark mode
aminnairi opened this issue · comments
It would be great to include another selection in order to mark multiple non-adjacent files.
The rationale is that there already is a linewise mode that helps visually selecting multiple files, but this mode will only allow selecting files that are adjacent.
[ file1.txt ]
[ file2.txt ]
[ file3.txt ]
[ file4.txt ]
file5.txt
Here the files marked as [...]
are the files that would normally get marked using the linewise mode.
However, if one would like to quickly delete/yank/bulk rename (see #264) this would mean doing it in two steps, and it can be faster to do it in one take.
The solution I would like to see in Felix is to add another keybind, I see it as a file to the list of selected files.
This would allow the user to select only the files file.txt
, file2.txt
, file4.txt
without having to highlight the file3.txt
if this one file is out of the way for the actions needed to be applied to those files.
[ file1.txt ]
[ file2.txt ]
file3.txt
[ file4.txt ]
file5.txt
However, for now, if one would like to only, let's say, delete those files, it would require using a linewise mode with a delete, followed by another delete. And for more complex file selections this can become quite tedious to do.
Hence why this would be great to introduce a new mark mode so that we can mark files for differents actions.
Here is an example of what the documentation would look like.
m (lowercase) Switch to the mark mode.
- V (uppercase) In the mark mode, mark multiple adjacent files. Press ENTER to confirm.
- v (lowercase) In the mark mode, mark one file.
- d In the mark mode, delete the marked files.
- y In the mark mode, yank the marked files.
- r In the mark mode, bulk rename the marked files.
- "ay In the mark mode, yank items to register a.
- "ad In the mark mode, delete and yank items to register a.
- "ar In the mark mode, bulk rename items to register a.
- "Ay In the mark mode, yank and append items to register a.
- "Ad In the mark mode, delete and append items to register a.
- "Ar In the mark mode, bulk rename and append items to register a.
Another name for this mode could be the selection
mode which is a little bit more obvious if mark
is reserved and can be used for another feature (like a real mark and quick jump like in Vim).