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It would be great if it was possible to select multiple files in the quick file chooser.
It would, though I have no idea how to present the UI for such a thing. Would probably need some special keystroke for accepting the selected file, adding it to a list, and continuing with further selections.
I would think that a multiple selection could be made possible if you keep e.g. the CTRL-key pressed and then select the desired files or directories.
That would be OK for mouse usage but not keyboard usage.
One use-case for multiple selection in the quick file chooser is selection of JAR files in a "lib" directory - e.g. when adding a list of files for editor code completion in a free-form project (not for actual compilation, which is handled OK by Ant). For this particular use case an acceptable input would use wildcards, like "*.jar". More complex regular expressions to match desired filenames may be added later, but at least selecting a bunch of JAR files in one shot would be really helpful.
*** Issue 67865 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I don't plan to spend time on this. Workaround when you need a multiselection: use QFC to get to the right dir, then press Classic button to switch to a different filechooser UI and finish.
Enabling * to be used as a wildcard. Does not support arbitrary multiselection, but usually people just want to select *.jar in some dir or similar. release65/contrib #63790844769d