Re: [Nautilus-list] select all, unselect all and invert selection patch

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Darin Adler wrote:

> On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 01:17  PM, Benedikt Roth wrote:
>
> > the attached patch improves the behaviour of the 'Select All' menu item
> > and adds two new menu items to the 'Edit' menu: 'Unselect All'
> > and 'Invert Selection'.
>
>
> I personally think that Unselect All is not a very good addition. And 
> I think that Invert Selection is a pretty strange feature. 


It's actually a very useful feature.  Say you have a directory of 300 
files and you want to keep 5 of them.  Select those 5 and hit 'Invert 
Selection'.  Now all but those 5 are selected for further manipulations.

-b

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