In Windows Explorer, if I slow double-click a file, the entire file name + extension is highlighted. In Opus 9, only the file name is highlighted, not the extension.
How can I make Opus behave like Explorer?
If i click a file here, everything is highlighted. What exactly do you mean?
Left-click a file to highlight it. Entire row is highlighted (I have row highlighting turned on).
Left-click again, and only the file part of the name is highlighted, not the extension.
In Windows Explorer, the entire name + extension would be highlighted. How can I get Opus to do that?
Edit the F2 hotkey so that it runs rename inline=all instead of just rename inline. Then the full name will be selected by default when you hit F2.
(I don't think it affects what happens if you start renaming via the mouse.)
When you are editing the filename you can push:
[ul][li]ctrl-a to select all of the name, including the extension.
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[li]ctrl-e to select just the extension (useful for quickly changing a file extension by typing over it).
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[li]ctrl-f for just the filename, excluding the extension (i.e. what's selected by default).[/li][/ul]You can also push F2 repeatedly to cycle through the different parts.
You can change what F2 does by default (so F2 selects the full name straight away; see Christiaan's post above mine) but I don't think you can change what happens when you rename a file by clicking on it.
BTW, in Vista and Windows 7, Explorer does the same thing that Opus does, except without the extra keyboard shortcuts mentioned above. (Opus did it first but it's now standard to exclude the extension when inline-renaming files.) The idea is that people usually want to rename a file without changing its type/extension.
[quote="Christiaan"]Edit the F2 hotkey so that it runs rename inline=all instead of just rename inline. Then the full name will be selected by default when you hit F2.
(I don't think it affects what happens if you start renaming via the mouse.)[/quote]
That´s why i asked. But Sweeks didn´t mention "rename" even in his answer. By the way, if i left click a file, it just opens.
You've either got Single-Click (Point To Select) mode turned on or you're double-clicking the file.
You need to select the file, wait a moment, then click it again. Doing that is like pushing F2 on the file to start inline-rename.
(Not to be confused with using the rename window/toolbar button.)
leo: Thanks for the detailed answer, It's impressive that I actually found something that Opus doesn't have a setting for!
Of course, Opus would be first again on Windows 7 and Vista if it DID have a setting to control this. 
Yeah, right. I have turned it off for so long, i forgot what the single click does normally. 
I was going to suggest (as an alternative) that you configure something like Middle double-click event for 'All files and folders' file type to run Rename INLINE=all, but it behaves weird for me here...
It seems to select the file I middle-click on, but enters the previously selected file (with the selection 'rectangle' around it) into rename mode - instead of the file being clicked on...
Anybody else see that? Seems weird, and I didn't see any other "middle click" related setting that I could change or disable that would affect the behavior.
That's normal Steje. Inline rename affects the file with the input focus (not necessarily the selected file).
Left clicking sets both focus and selection but middle clicking only toggles the selection, leaving the focus alone.
A better example is that you can use Ctrl-Up/Down to move the focus to a file and rename it without affecting any current selections.
Yeah, I get the input focus rectangle vs actual file selection bit... I guess I thought there was a setting that modified that initial middle-click to actually select and focus on the file. Instead the middle-click basically does a + Left Mouse 'selection' of the clicked file, except unlike normal + Left Mouse click, the middle click does not place 'input focus' on the clicked file... This is a little the reverse of Up/Down example since that maneuver DOES move 'input focus', but doesn't do any file 'selection' (unless you spacebar or something).
Oh well.