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<h2><u>The Edit menu</u></h2>
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The first three items in this menu are <b>Cut, Copy</b> and <b>Paste</b>, and as you'd expect they have the standard shortcuts:
<b>Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C</b> and <b>Ctrl-V</b> (by default: all the shortcuts mentioned in this Help assume that you haven't <a href="ConfiguringShortcuts.htm">altered them</a>).<br>
If you Cut a file or directory, it will be immediately removed from the display and 'deleted' (see below for what that doesn't mean). If you change your mind, you can use <a href="UnRedo.htm">Undo</a> to retrieve it.<br>
<br>(Copying and) Pasting a symlink behaves as you would wish: the new symlink has the same target as did the original.
This normally applies to relative symlinks too; to alter this behaviour see <a href="Options.htm">here</a>.
<br><br>The fourth item is <b>Paste as Directory Template</b>. Occasionally you may wish to replicate a directory and all its subdirectories,
but without their contained files. To do so, Copy the directory, select the destination dir, then use this menu-item.
<br><br>The last item in this section is <b>Cancel Paste</b>. Since 4Pane 4.0 pasting usually happens in a separate thread, which allows large, time-consuming ones to be cancelled if you wish. Note
that this doesn't always work, particularly when pasting from a slow device like a usbpen or over NFS.
<br>Talking of time-consuming pastes, since 4Pane 5.0 a paste's progress is displayed in the statusbar.
<br><br><br>Creating a file or directory is straightforward. The only thing worth mentioning is that, if a file-view pane has focus,
the dialog gives you the choice of making a file or a directory; if a dir-view, you can only make a directory.
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Next comes Linking. You can choose to make a <b>Symbolic Link</b> (Symlink) with <b>Alt-Sh-L</b> or a <b>Hard link</b> with <b>Ctrl-Sh-L</b>
(note that the same metakeys are used to make the corresponding link in <a href="DnD.htm">Drag'n'Drop</a>). As with Pasting, you need first to have Copied the item(s) to be linked, then clicked on the directory in which you want the link(s) to be created.<br>
When you call Link, a dialog appears in which you can:
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<li> Choose a name to give the link: either keeping the same name as the link's target (providing you're not making the link in the same directory!); using the same name plus an extension e.g. foo -> foo.lnk; or providing a new name of your choice.</li>
<li> Change your mind as to which sort of link to make.</li>
<li> If a symlink, choose whether this should be absolute or relative e.g. /home/me/foo or ../foo</li>
<li> If you are creating links to more than one file, you can make these choices 'Apply to all' of them. This isn't possible if you are choosing a new name for the links.</li>
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The next two items are <b>Trash</b> (<b>Del</b>) and <b>Delete</b> (<b>Sh-Del</b>). These have similar meanings to normal, but different mechanisms. Neither actually deletes anything; instead files are moved to a newly-created temporary directory.
This means that you can <b>Undo</b> a Delete! The difference between Delete and Trash is that the Delete temporary dirs are (really) deleted when 4Pane exits. The Trash ones are never lost, unless you use <i>Options > Empty the Trash-can</i>.<br>
There are three consequences of this. The first two are bad: Deleting a directory containing thousands of files and subdirectories will take a long time (on a slow computer a <i>very</i> long time); and Deleting a very large file e.g. a 4GB iso image, will take forever if it's on a different partition.
The good news is that, were your computer to crash before you have a chance to Undo an accidental Delete, the file will still be available, probably in a dir called ~/.cache/4Pane/.Trash/DeletedBy4Pane/05-07-18__13-53-14/ where '05-07-18__13-53-14' is the timestamp of the Deletion.<br><br>
Third in this section is <b>Permanently Delete</b>. This does what it sounds like: deletes without saving the files. So it would be a good choice for getting rid of large items you are entirely sure you
no longer want; but beware, you can't undo this!<br><br>
Then come <b>Rename</b> (<b>F2</b>) and <b>Duplicate</b> (<b>Ctrl-D</b>). Both of these are simple and obvious when applied to only one file or dir. However you can also do <a href="MultipleRenDup.htm">multiple rename/duplicate</a>.<br><br>
Undo (<b>Ctrl-Z</b>) and Redo (<b>Ctrl-R</b>) are next. They are discussed <a href="UnRedo.htm">here</a>.<br><br>
Finally you can view information about the current selection, and change its permissions etc, in <a href="Properties.htm">Properties</a>.
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