Remember/save settings in bulk rename

Hi,

it’s very cool there is a bulk rename feature. I used to install Thunar for that. Now, it would be very cool, if it remembered all (!) the settings, or if there was a checkbox to enable saving all settings for the next time. By all settings I mean that it shouldn’t have one checkbox that only acts for the function that is currently selected (replace, insert, remove or change case). Alternatively there should be five checkboxes: One for all next to four others for each single thing, all five visible at all times, independently of the selected function.

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Welcome @scytho to the community!

Is this the right place for feature requests?

Hi, @scytho :slight_smile:

(Usual disclaimer: please note that I'm just another Forum user here. I'm NOT an Ubuntu developer or an Ubuntu MATE developer or a MATE Desktop Environment developer or a "caja" developer)

You wrote:

Hmmm... Is this "Remember/save settings in bulk rename" topic that you've created about a feature in the "Caja " file explorer ("Caja is the default file manager for the MATE Desktop Environment. " - https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/caja/ )?

If you are indeed talking about "Caja" and specifically talking about the "Rename All..." option which I now see that appears as an option of the context menu when you select multiple files in Caja, and then right click on your mouse, I think that feature is provided by the "Python: caja-rename" Python-caja extension, as shown by going to the "Edit" menu of "Caja" -> "Preferences" (which is last option / command of the "Edit" menu") and then clicking on the "Extensions" tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

Some additional experiences and web searches are making me think that this "caja-rename" extension has its home at the web page https://tari.in/www/software/caja-rename/ :

At the end of that web page, I've found the following question and answer:

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Frank
11th April 2022, 06:50 GMT

Hi Tari,
Is there a way, to give the Rename Dialog an accelerator key?
Like this for regular (non-extension) actions in ~/.config/caja

(gtk_accel_path "/DirViewActions/Delete" "")

Tari
27th April 2022, 08:17 GMT

@Frank

Could you please make this request on Issues · tari01/caja-rename · GitHub https://github.com/tari01/caja-rename/issues - thanks. "

So, my suggestion to you, @scytho , is to make your feature request at https://github.com/tari01/caja-rename/issues :

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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