On 7/8/2018 6:41 AM, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Stan Brown
writes:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:25:06 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
The tablet is a touch tablet, which makes makes it a pain to make the
inputs, and I have never found how to do the operation mouse
operation
Click, Shift Click to select multiple files on the touch screen.
Ctrl+A selects all files in the current folder.
Â*Yes, but Keith might have wanted to select, say, 7 files, or a
range of
files, rather than all of them.
Of course there's also the command prompt.


Some combination of control, alt, and shift,
allows extending a selection with "holes" in it.

It's control-alt that allows mousing and selecting
separate items. They don't have to be touching one another.

I know those, and I think Keith does too: I think he was just saying
he was finding them near-impossible on a touch-screen device (no real
keyboard or mouse).

You can also select "chunks" and add them while holding
down those keys.

https://s22.postimg.cc/xe221hskx/extended_selection.gif

Â* Paul

Not sure how I'd select a chunk and add it to an existing selection -
the action of starting to select the chunk would I think deselect
anything already selected. But no matter! I think Keith's comment
above was about the difficulty of using a touch screen as the _only_
input.

You might need some sort of sticky keys solution,
where pressing some keys sequentially, builds up
a hotkey-combo for you.

Having had the misfortune, of using a tiny touch
device just a couple days ago, I can sympathize with
the problems of operating them. What rubbish!!!

I'm thinking "Bluetooth keyboard for the win".
If you need to do extensive data entry, and not
watch music videos on it, then get a keyboard.

Â*Â* Paul
If you need to do extensive data entry work, get a laptop.

I find it amazing that people praise the smartphone and touch tablet,
and then run down to Walmart and by keyboards and other peripherals to
make it a laptop.

While the keyboard idea is great, with my small tablet there is one port
that accepts the power cord, the keyboard, etc.

When you have to do things like remove thousands of files, it needs to
be plugged in, so it is difficult to have a keyboard or mouse attached
to the tablet, and have sufficient energy that it will not die during
the task you are trying to do.
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