How to highlight just the name (not the extension) for renaming?

Question

Is there a way to turn it off so that when you're renaming a file, it doesn't highlight the extension?

Answer 1

Use something else than Nautilus' List View mode. It works fine in the Compact View and Icon View modes. Apparently it's a regression: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627110

Update:
This is now fixed in the development version of Ubuntu 11.10 (Nautilus 3.0.1.1).

Answer 2

When I right click a file and select Rename, or press F2, the extension isn't highlighted.

To answer your question: you don't have to do anything.

Answer 3

You should try pressing F2 twice and extension will highlight.

Answer 4

to get only name without extension:

${var%.ext}

where ".ext" is extension

following a test script. to effect changes alter the commented line

for name in `find ./path -iname "*pattern*.ext" `; do
    new_name=${name%.ext}newextension
    if [ "$new_name" != "$name" ]; then
        echo “$name => $new_name”
        # mv “$name” “$new_name”
    fi
done