Deleting files in multiple panes

[UffeJakobsen]

Subject: Deleting files in multiple panes

I just ran into a rather unpleasant surprise with nnn-5.1

• I was going to copy a couple of files - and selected them in pane 1

• then I switched to pane 2 - and navigated to the destination folder - only to discover that it contained some files that were not supposed to be there...

• so I selected the misplaced files in pane 2 - and pressed 'x' to delete those...

well the misplaced files in pane 2 were deleted for sure - but so was the selected files (for copying) in pane 1 :-/

I know that copy and move works across panes - but honestly I would have thought that "delete" only worked on the pane in focus (as a safety mechanism)

It is rather risky if you get side-tracked by some unexpected event (and as I try to describe above destroy the data that I was about to copy)

Maybe it would be good with an option limit the scope of delete to one pane - or the opposite broaden the scope delete to multi pane ?

Thanks in advance

[darukutsu]

What is more concerning is that if you have multiple nnn sessions opened they share exact same NNN_SEL by default, but indicator is not set.

I know that copy and move works across panes...

At bottom left there's indicator of how many selected files. Why would delete behave differently than copy? There's option to delete 'c'urrent(hovered)/'s'election. There maybe could be option added. But you could also write a script which would parse .selection and apply action based on cwd. I would love to see option to bind userscript to default keys.

[N-R-K]

I know that copy and move works across panes - but honestly I would have thought that "delete" only worked on the pane in focus (as a safety mechanism)

They all just operate on the selection. There's no special logic. For "safety" it's recommended that you use a trash-bin program and set NNN_TRASH to it so that accidental deletions can be recovered.