Easy renaming of files

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-01-28 10:45 (GMT+0100) Egmont Koblinger composed:

> Marco wrote:

>> when I hit F6 to rename a file the “to:” field is pre-populated with
>> the path of the other panel. That's handy if you want to move files,
>> but annoying if you want to rename the file and the renaming just
>> adds an extension or removes two characters at the beginning of a
>> 50-character file name. If I start typing I have to retype the
>> entire file name.

>> Is there an easier way to rename files, for instance a shortcut to
>> pre-populate the field with the current file name?

> Shift+F6 should do it.

But it doesn't when running on a tty in runlevel[2,3,5] in every distro I can 
recall using. In the tty case it's inexplicably Shift-F4, just like copy with 
edit name instead of Shift-F5 is Shift-F3. Why? I know it has something to do 
with 10 function keys vs. 12 function keys, but shouldn't there be a simple 
solution? Is there?

Also, File Commander is much smarter than MC on group copy/move. In FC when a 
group of files is selected in a fullscreen pane and the highlight/focus is on 
a DIR, F5/F6 copies/moves the group to the highlighted DIR without need for 
further typing beyond confirmation. Has no one ever asked for this 
intelligence in MC?
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