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I would like the ability to retain the selection on files I click. Right now I can do this with <CTRL>-click, but if I'm selecting lots of files (like weeding out bad photos I downloaded from my camera, using either Thumbnails or Quick View), it becomes tedious to hold that control key down. And if I forget once, then I lose all my selections.

There is another file manager program, xplorer2, that has this capability; you toggle it with the "Mark | Sticky selection" command.

I agree, that would be very useful sometimes. You don't want to know the words I say when I lose a big selection

I also agree this could be very useful sometimes

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+1

To realize that, it would be fine to klick the first file with STRG+SHIFT und FC remembers this.

The NC-mode selection provides sticky selection function (settings>select item>NC-mode)

wkrekik wrote:
> The NC-mode selection provides sticky selection function

Thanks, I didn't realize that! ('NC-Mode' is not exactly mnemonic to me; I have used a *lot* of file managers over the years--I think Lotus Magellan was the first one--but I'm afraid Norton Commander wasn't one of them.)

McSwell

Maybe it would be more user friendly to rename the option to "Sticky selection mode (like Norton Commander)" instead of "NC-mode"?

Agree--something with the phrase "Sticky selection" would be easier to understand. I would not object to it mentioning NC, although to be honest, even if I had used NC, I doubt that I would remember that it had a sticky selection capability. (I don't remember what capabilities Lotus Magellan had. Maybe that's just because I'm getting senile--but I suppose that if I were not this old and feeble, I wouldn't have been using Magellan :-!)

McSwell