I think it was already a feature, but was deleted recently. When selecting file and pressing [del] key it moves the file to the trash bin, but it does not select the next file so I can delete multiple files just by pressing [del] multiple times. Right now it just removes one file and does not select the next, and pressing [del] one more time just enters select mode. It was/would be a really great feature to select the next file after deleting as when you need to delete a few files, but not that much that you will select them first and then delete.
there was a recent discussion about this, that maybe you missed.
having delete move the next file has accessibility down sides if someone accidentally hits the delete button too many times, it could result in data loss.
iirc the discussion centered around Shift-Del which permanently deletes the file, whereas regular Del only moves it to the trash.
so maybe split the baby and have Shift-Del go into select mode, but have regular Del go back to the previous mode.
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I’d actually agree with the earlier discussion and think it’s the more common use case to protect the user from accidentally deleting files.
Is there any reason you go about deleting like that, instead selecting multiple files (shift + arrow keys) and deleting in one go?
That sounds quite… inconsistent 
if it depends on the command if a file gets selected or not, then the user won’t be able to know what to expect anymore.
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trying to accommodate those diehards, ya know.
Actually not a ‘feature’… more of an issue that long went overlooked.
I remember the dialogue ‘do you really want to do this?’ which most people end up disabling…
So what we do now is to select all the files we want, then delete. That will work great if you have 100 jpegs and 12 png files, Ctrl_A then control_click to remove the PNG files.
I also developed the habit of Shift-Deleting stuff which was quite hard to break (muscle memory… like driving a car with a gear lever and gears all in a different order…).
So now it’s much better that some folks lose track with their muscle memory - but it fails safe… and that’s what counts.
I noticed this last week, after dumping a website’s images in a folder, then holding down Delete, thinking they’d scroll down and disappear until I’d removed all the thumbnails and could then choose which of the fullsize images I wanted to take out.
I learned that trick in about 3 seconds… it’s not hard.
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I’m trying to delete a few temporary files for example (just happened before I’ve started writing this). So to delete them without aiming at them with a mouse pointer I need to hold shift with 1 hand and spam arrows with the other one then release them and press [del] key with the hand that was on arrows or both on arrows and shift to delete a bunch of files. Instead of just spamming [del] a bunch of times. But there is more. For example the files I want to delete have a file between them that I want to skip I have to release shift and after that press arrow and hold shift again. You might say it’s not that hard, but there is more. If there is a file I want to delete surrounded with 2 files I want to skip: In select mode I can’t select less than 2 files in a row with a keyboard this means that I have to delete the ones I’ve selected and then move to the one surrounded by files I want to skip, press [del] once to delete (which is already inconsistent), move with arrows to the other bulk of files and go in select mode again.