request concerning confirmations (and selecting)

[Roland Illig]

zscherni at rz.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
> Imho one thing in mc is a little bit dangerous:
> 
> If there is (are) (a) selected file(s) somewhere in the filelist in the
> activ mc-window (e.g. marked before pressing the insert-key while the
> cursor-bar stood on that file) and the cursor-bar stands on another
> file now and one presses F8 and one doesn't read exactly the
> confirmation-message asking if one really wants to delete that (these)
> (the earlier selected) file(s) and one clicks ok, so the earlier
> selected file(s) is (are) lost and not the file selected in that
> moment, which one could have expected...
> 
> That's why i would like another message in that case which warns, that
> there are other files selected than the one on which the cursor-bar
> stands in that moment...

What about changing the default button to [No] in that case? Would that 
help or are you using the mouse for deletion?

Roland