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> Idk what's happening to the Windows/file explorer teams I'd say whatever it is, it's been happening for a looong time, considering they've still never fixed

> Idk what's happening to the Windows/file explorer teams I'd say whatever it is, it's been happening for a looong time, considering they've still never fixed the glaring bug in previous versions where the down arrow takes you to the second file in the list. Or where you go to save a file (save as), and you put your cursor at the end of the file name to rename just part of it, the cursor randomly-but-not-always jumps to the beginning of the file.

zamadatix 3y ago
I was going to reply but then I realized I already have before! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516321
- recursive 3y ago
  This is hilarious. Somehow I responded to both.
wongarsu 3y ago
At least they eventually fixed the bug where "New/Text Document" thought file names weren't allowed to start with a dot.
recursive 3y ago
I really don't think this is a bug. The first element is focused when you start, but not selected. Pressing down moves the focus down, and selects. If you want to select the focused element, press 'Space'.
- wruza 3y ago
  This collection-/tableview technique is known by maybe 0.1% of users and used by much less. You can also alt-arrow(?) to move the cursor around and select more elements with space. Never seen anyone use that. Instead of clinging onto this cursor nonsense they’d better finally made it work as (no selection, arrows select next/prev, [modifier+]mouse selects as usual) and get rid of a cursor. And make a proper tree view. Everyone does it this way except explorer.
  - innocenat 3y ago
    I would hate if Microsoft "fix" it because it has been this way since at least Win 98 and is what I am used to.
  - recursive 3y ago
    What percent of users navigate explorer with a keyboard at all? I'd hate to lose keyboard selection over this. Ctrl and shift do different things and I use them both.
    - divingdragon 3y ago
      I do this all the time. Every once in a while, navigating with the keyboard in Explorer will cause the window thread to hang up in a busy loop and I have to kill it. I have no idea if this is an Explorer bug or caused by other stuff.

zamadatix 3y ago

I was going to reply but then I realized I already have before! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516321

recursive 3y ago
This is hilarious. Somehow I responded to both.

wongarsu 3y ago

At least they eventually fixed the bug where "New/Text Document" thought file names weren't allowed to start with a dot.

recursive 3y ago

I really don't think this is a bug. The first element is focused when you start, but not selected. Pressing down moves the focus down, and selects. If you want to select the focused element, press 'Space'.

wruza 3y ago
This collection-/tableview technique is known by maybe 0.1% of users and used by much less. You can also alt-arrow(?) to move the cursor around and select more elements with space. Never seen anyone use that. Instead of clinging onto this cursor nonsense they’d better finally made it work as (no selection, arrows select next/prev, [modifier+]mouse selects as usual) and get rid of a cursor. And make a proper tree view. Everyone does it this way except explorer.
- innocenat 3y ago
  I would hate if Microsoft "fix" it because it has been this way since at least Win 98 and is what I am used to.
- recursive 3y ago
  What percent of users navigate explorer with a keyboard at all? I'd hate to lose keyboard selection over this. Ctrl and shift do different things and I use them both.
  - divingdragon 3y ago
    I do this all the time. Every once in a while, navigating with the keyboard in Explorer will cause the window thread to hang up in a busy loop and I have to kill it. I have no idea if this is an Explorer bug or caused by other stuff.