Not able to SHIFT click when renaming a file.

[Nate Wiebe]

If you press CTRL + L to bring up the address field, left click in one spot, then hold SHIFT and left click in another spot. It will highlight the text between the two selections.

You are unable to do this when renaming a file. It makes highlighting large portions of a name very tedious and should be fixed.

Running Ubuntu 12.10 and also on 12.04 both with the latest version from the repos.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Nate Wiebe (natew)]

I would, but since 12.10 is using an older version of nautilus, I'm guessing the chance of the fix being applied to 12.10 is pretty slim unless you backport it. Also, I'm hoping that Ubuntu move onto another file manager that doesn't theaten to remove features every release. The gnome team has some warped vision that I don't agree with anymore. I'd prefer using Marlin over Nautilus any day.

I'm thinking this fix wouldn't require too much effort. I may even attempt a patch myself if I get the time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's fixed in the current nautilus version