selecting multiple files

[Takis Diakoumis <takisd alphalink com au>]

hi

i'm not sure if i'm being anal here but aside from the view hidden files
thing buried in preferences (a topic that has probably been exhausted
and hopefully will be addressed) as opposed to the view menu, the
biggest issue i find (and this could be only me) is selecting multiple
files using the keyboard. 

basically i expected that holding down the shift key and down (or up)
arrow would select multiple files. instead it just moves down and
highlights each individually. to select multiple files i have to hold
down the ctrl key and click the mouse - which is fine but a little
annoying.

is there perhaps some setting somewhere i've missed that will let me do
this? is there an alternative to selecting mutliple files using the
keyboard (and i don't mean ctrl-a which selects all files as expected)??

any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

Takis