[Feature Request] Add a "Paste as Link" and/or "Create Link" option to right-click menu

[Wxnzxn]

When I was moving some folders to my non-SSD hard drive and linking them from my home folder, I found that to be unnecessarily complicated in nemo.

I'd love to see a simple "Paste as Link" or "Create Link" option in the right-click menu. I know nemo is capable of creating links like that, so I assume it would be easy to add. Ideally I imagine "Paste as Link" to create a link to the file or fiolder in the clipboard, and "Create Link" to create a link of the selected file or folder in the current folder.

If this is perhaps already easily done, maybe via add-ons or plugins, I am not aware of it, but I'd love to hear about it.

[mtwebster]

Not well documented, admittedly, but if you start dragging a folder, then hold alt when you release, you can decide what action to perform - copy, move, or link. Or, you can control-shift-drag, and the link will be made on the fly, without interaction (the drag mouse pointer changes accordingly to show your intended action)

[Wxnzxn]

Thanks for the answer!

I'd still like to see it implemented as I described, as that's the workflow I've gotten used to, but with that info I can see that it's really not a high priority. And I'll probably adapt easily.

A small thing I just noticed when playing around with it, though, is that it can be a bit annoying because if you hold alt and then click the file/folder to drag it, it drags the window instead. That's actually something that made it a bit annoying, because intuitively I wanted to do it this way, and not drag the file, then press alt.

[bitboy85]

What about creating a Nemo action like this?

---

[Nemo Action]
Name=Create Link
Comment=Create a Softlink to the selected file
Exec=ln -s "%F" "%P"/New_Link
Selection=S
Extensions=any;
Icon-Name=emblem-symbolic-link

Name[de]=Verknüpfung erstellen
Comment[de]=Eine Verknüfung mit der ausgewählten Datei erstellen

---

Put that in a file ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/Create_Link.nemo_action

Sadly "Paste as Link" isn't that easy because you need to check if the clipboard contains a valid file or folder path.

[mtwebster]

"Make link" is in the menu - it always was - but we made a change in 2.6 to hide certain (what we considered) less-used items for starting users. You could access them by going to Nemo preferences, and enabling full context menus.

For 2.8, there is a toggle button in the context menu to access this, so Make Link will be easy to reveal - permanently - for those who wish it.

[FM33]

It seems I have the advanced contextual menu, but I can't find that toggle button nor preference for this. Where is it ?
2.8.4 WebUpd8 - Ubuntu 14.04 x64

[JosephMcc]

The button is in the upper right hand corner of the menu.

[FM33]

Yes, thanks Joseph.
It's discrete. Missed it.

[MarcoAlbanese]

Yes, also I missed it. Perhaps it would be better to put advanced options in an express submenu 'advanced' or otherwise to find a way to highlight graphically the fact that exploding context menu is a different operation from the "open with document viewer".
The first menu item in fact is the only one in which 2 operations can be done. It is a little bit not intuitive.
It is not easy for me to propose because I don't know if there are similar behavior in other components.
However I thank you for having shown me where it is (actually I could find it alone :-) ) and for sure now we are speaking about a minor problem. Thank you

[MarcoAlbanese]

Probably the best would be moving the current small button '+' for the explosion of the menu externally to the current rectangle containing the menu.
It could be located in the upper right corner inside a small frame or better in a small tab