[Gprename-users] A lost bugfix?

[Lacrocivious A. <alt...@ya...>]

It has been so long ago now that I cannot be certain,
but I had thought that at one point the files selected
for renaming would remain selected after a naming
conflict warning prevented the renaming action from
occurring.

At present, it appears that if multiple files are
selected for renaming, if there is a naming conflict
and associated warning/abort, the file selections are
lost upon dismissing the warning dialog. This is
inconvenient when the selections are, for example,
widely separated in the directory listing.

Below I have pasted the original request for this fix.

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There is one thing I would like to see, but which I
suspect needs to wait for another release. That is the
handling of multiple selections upon encountering an
existing filename conflict with the selected renaming
operation.

Specifically, if I have chosen a few dozen files to
rename, particularly in scattered groups rather than
contiguous entries, if one or more of the filenames I
wish to rename conflicts with existing name(s), then
upon acknowledging the error dialog I lose all my
selection markers. This means I have to reselect,
avoiding the conflicting file.

If there was another conflicting name beyond the
first, then I will get another conflict error on my
second attempt, and so lose my selections again. This
repeats until my selections no longer contain any
conflicting filenames. Sometimes this takes quite a
few selection passes ;-)

At some point, it would be useful to provide a dialog
which lists *all* the conflicting files within the
selected range(s). Further, upon aborting the rename
operation, it would be useful to retain the selection
highlights so that the offending files can be
deselected either singly or in ranges, just as they
may have been selected in the beginning, singly or in
ranges.

Perhaps the conflicting files might be highlighted
differently from 'normal' selections in the list,
making it more obvious which ones need deselecting.

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