Select the next file after rename, without jumping to new position of renamed file

[teejee2008]

I don't have many complaints with existing file managers on Linux, but there is one feature that is missing from every one of them (but exists on Windows) that I miss occasionally.

Specifically, it's the ability to complete a rename and simultaneously move to renaming the next file without using the mouse. This is most useful if you're renaming a series of files, where the renaming will move them (because of how the directory is sorted).

For example, imagine you're in a directory with X.txt, Y.txt and Z.txt, along with many other files. You want to rename all three of them, but not in a way that is regular enough for a bulk rename tool - like, such as X.txt -> A.txt, Y.txt -> Q.txt, Z.txt -> 9.txt.

In Windows, you can use tab for this. It will finalize the rename for the current file, and open the rename input for the next file (so it would go from X.txt to Y.txt to Z.txt).

Linux file managers don't have this feature. The only way to finalize a rename with the keyboard is enter, which will also force you to follow the file to its new location, meaning that, to do the described renames, you'd have to scroll back down to the initial position of the three files twice (once after renaming X.txt, and once after renaming Y.txt).

If you use the mouse, you can finalize a rename without following the file, allowing for the less annoying workflow of right clicking on the next file to be renamed, but obviously a keyboard shortcut for this would be ideal. Please make this a feature (or maybe it is already, and I just don't know because I haven't tried it yet).

I'm sorry for this incredibly long description, but I've been annoyed by the lack of this feature many times, and suggested it for several different file managers, but it's apparently an obscure windows feature and people generally don't understand what I mean when I talk about it. -- Kevin Mills

[Kzer-Za]

Personally, I would prefer the current behavior: when the renamed file is still selected. I hope there will be an option for it.