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.
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

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.
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