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Right you are! Thanks again.

First of all, thanks for your patience with a newbie. I've recently moved to FC/XE as my file manager of choice. Part 1) The Help file (Tools - Settings - Select items - Tab General) defines "hot item" as "the item beneath the mouse." I can't find a definition of "focused it...

joby_toss wrote:Just hold the right mouse button down for more than 2 seconds.

Perfect! That does the trick. Thank-you very much!

QUESTION: Where is this in the documentation? If it's not there, how on earth did you discover this?

This still doesn't allow the user to mouse click to sticky select. To achieve that, put a checkmark by "Select with right mouse button." After being puzzled for several days, I just figured out: this setting causes one to lose the ability to right-click and get the context menu for files....

In order to select multiple files in FreeCommander, and have them stay selected -- without using <Ctrl> or <Shift> keys -- one uses the "NC-Mode (sticky selection)." Nowhere in the Help file does it explain what "NC" means. This stumped me for a while, until I was looking at othe...

Aha! One solution to achieving the same result as checkboxes is: Tools - Settings - Select items, and go to the tab titled "NC-Mode (sticky selection)". Put a checkmark by "Select items in NC-Mode" and that's it. How simple is that! No need to add secret codes to the configuratio...

I don't get it. this is far from Select Checkbox I have to agree with ravellar. With checkboxes, one randomly clicks any boxes, and they all retain their status. No need to hold down <Ctrl> or <Shift> keys. Dreamer's workaround is nothing like that... unless I haven't modified the .INI file correct...

Dreamer,

Thanks for your wonderful help.
That last one sounds complicated! I think I'll just use what I've got. It's not perfect, but good enough.

Wow! It works! Thank-you very much. Actually, it works a bit TOO well... When I'm using dual-pane layout, and want to switch between panes, HotKeyP intercepts my <Tab> presses, and makes them into <Shift-Tab>. So I have to use the mouse to move between panes. What I am really after is just to use <T...

I downloaded HotKeyP. And yes, I do need some help. :>) * The CHM help file for HotKeyP doesn't work under Windows 8. All other CHM files open fine. * I think I see how to convert a key press into a command to run a program. But I don't see how to convert one key-press into another key-press (i.e. c...

Free Commander's default keyboard shortcut for <Tab> is to switch back and forth between the two panes. I'd like to expand that to include the tree pane. I don't see an option for that anywhere in the list of keyboard shortcuts. And since I often work with just one pane, it would be nice if it swit...

alf5000 wrote:Shift+Tab

But tell me, please, where is that found? I don't see it in the list of keyboard shortcuts.

Excellent! Thank-you.
I'm a new convert, coming over from PowerDesk, which I've loved for years.

Free Commander's default keyboard shortcut for <Tab> is to switch back and forth between the two panes. I'd like to expand that to include the tree pane. I don't see an option for that anywhere in the list of keyboard shortcuts. And since I often work with just one pane, it would be nice if it switc...