[gcmd-usr] Advance Rename Tool WOW! (also a tip about bookmarks)

[Ken Taylor]

I have been a gnome-commander user for longer than I can remember. 
However, I am too hard headed to explore new features in an application. 
I discovered that F2 would allow me to rename a file and I have renamed 
thousands of files that way. Even when I am renaming a bunch of files 
from "The Very Best Of Rock 'N' Roll~ Box 3  Vol. 2 - 01 - song title - 
artist" to "01 - song title - artist" after moving the files to a 
directory hierarchy music/The Very Best Of Rock 'N' Roll/Box 3  Vol. 2"

This afternoon I decided to explore the File; Advance Rename Tool. 
Fantastic!  Select the files to be renamed, Ctrl-M, Add the rename 
scheme (a little copy/paste/edit), check the proposed results and 
Apply.  Brilliant! Why did I not try that MANY years ago?  The only 
downside I found was that when I was working on loooooooooong file names 
the dialog window would span my two 24" monitors. The file name I was 
working on was on the left monitor and the action buttons were on the 
right side of the right monitor. That might give me a sore neck but no 
where near as bad as my sore wrist from manually shortening a bunch of 
file names :-)

Thanks and keep up the good work Uwe!

Ken

Clayton, NC USA

p.s. Breaking my hard headed mold of doing things the hard way I 
recently started playing with Bookmarks in gnome-commander. If you use 
bookmarks you may find that when you call up the Bookmarks dialog with 
Ctrl-D the bookmark tree under "Home" is collapsed. The keyboard 
shortcut to expand the tree is the "+" key. I am sure that is documented 
somewhere but I sort of found it by accident. A lot quicker than 
reaching for the mouse...