Public bug reported: 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. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045528 Title: Not able to SHIFT click when renaming a file. Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1045528/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp