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Alex B:
In MC you must first change the focus inside the "table" by opening a cell for editing (F2 or right-click > rename). After that you can use tab, shift-tab, up arrow, down-arrow, page up and page down for going to other cells. (If you don't edit the value in the first opened cell it will stay intact when you move away from it.)

Daydream:
But I can't use left arrow or right arrow to get to where I wanna press F2. I need a mouse. Which is unlike list views in any database around. But I was hoping...

Your tip is good but in my opinion this style is unsafe: user navigates while in editing mode; a mistype and I'm lost as to how many keystrokes and in what direction I should go to rectify the problem (problem made worse when landing on a list field with multiple values). Navigating and then editing seems more friendly.

glynor:
Did you know you can expand the Tag AW to take up the whole left hand pane as well (cover up the tree)?

brossmac:

--- Quote from: Daydream on October 28, 2011, 10:52:46 pm ---But I can't use left arrow or right arrow to get to where I wanna press F2. I need a mouse. Which is unlike list views in any database around. But I was hoping...


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Select a field in the file list and hit F2.  You can then Tab to move to the next column or Shift-Tab to go to the previous column.  The up and down arrows can move you between rows.

Daydream:

--- Quote from: glynor on October 29, 2011, 10:04:24 am ---Did you know you can expand the Tag AW to take up the whole left hand pane as well (cover up the tree)?

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I do, although I found out about that rather late; and by accident :)


--- Quote from: brossmac on October 29, 2011, 02:07:20 pm ---Select a field in the file list and hit F2.  You can then Tab to move to the next column or Shift-Tab to go to the previous column.  The up and down arrows can move you between rows.

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I got it, when AlexB mentioned it.

Look, sometimes the expendable Tag pane is the best solution. But other times list view works best (say I'm collecting music clips - not only music videos - and their naming it's always a mess, so there's still more manual work then I'd like to admit, for filenaming structure to fields). So I bulk rename, Fill prop. from filename, Pane tag them to death. If there's still a few particular inconsistencies it's faster to fix them by hand then to invent a suber-uber-complicated technique that can only be used 3 times. So I move around and type and the expectation is that everything will behave like the rest of the world when navigating/typing something. Learning Tab - Shift-Tab - Up - Down, instead of the normal 4 arrow keys looks backwards to me, and there should be a pretty good reason for it which right now I'm not seeing. Also doing this while pretty much being in edit mode for every field from here to there... I don't get it. If I navigate and I overshoot (the only mistake possible when just navigating) I get back fast, fingers still on the 4 arrow keys. If I navigate while in editing mode (F2->Tab or Shift-Tab) crazy things can happen since every field from here, all the way to there, can be edited by mistake.

It's not an end of the world problem but I find it curious that while in TheaterView the navigation is hell-bent on using only the 4 arrow keys (with implications bigger than one might think), in standard view Edit modes and Shift-Tab combinations are required.

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