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Options, User Preferences, Right Click Customization, put a check mark in the upper left box 'turn on time-sensitive right-click. Also look into the system variables added in 2021 so with trim or extend you won't have to use the RMB or hit enter.

Dadgad, I may be younger than you but I am 66 and retiring at the end of this week! (May 29,2020) I moved from board drafting in 1988 to AutoCAD V2.6 (R8) and over the years always tried to embrace the new commands and UI while keeping many old school functions. I like a good customized Ribbon and all the contextual tabs. Good luck everyone.

I have always used Right Click Customization, love it. Set the options how you want them, including the duration of the Long Click which is defaulted to 250ms, but may or may not be what works best for your own personal style and flow.

@rkent, I was just cracking wise. I thought you might enjoy being referenced as one of the young guns! You are LEGEND on the board, and words cannot express the high esteem in which I hold you. You not only know all the magic handshakes of the CADeratti, rumor has it that you started a lot of them. WOW, retiring? CONGRATULATIONS for a job which I have no doubt was done in an exemplary fashion. While, yes in 1963, I was in Drafting class when the school-wide announcement was made that JFK had been shot, and much as I really enjoyed that class, it wasn't until 2008 when I jumped into the mix and started using AutoCAD. I pity my dear friend who hired and indoctrinated me. He had been using CAD since about '82 or '83. He had worked as a CAD Manager on projects in Dubai with hundreds of CAD techs onboard. He's a Brit, was trained on the Board. I am highly driven to explore options and outside the envelope approaches. I will never be as good a draftsman as he, but I have rocked the old boat, and shown him and our team lots of more modern ways to do things. I remember how happy I was when I finally modeled a full 3D threaded bolt, a few weeks into my internship, and shared it with him. He had been skeptical about it being possible. When I started working for him, all of our 3D modeled parts were TRACED for our fabrication drawings. It gave me great pleasure to stumble upon, and introduce the SOLPROF command, shortly thereafter, which had already been in AutoCAD for a number of years, and saved us huge amounts of time. I am always eager to check out EXPRESS TOOLS with a new release. That was well before I discovered CADTutor and the amazing online instructional resources. Do you ever use the ACTION RECORDER? Not that it is new, I know it is quite old, but I use it all the time, and really love it. I know lots of members have shied away from it, and yes it has some limitations, but once you get used to using it, it can be a great tool. As one who doesn't write lisp, and when I have tons of drawings to do in short order, I might create 4 or 5 new ActionMacros in a day. I think it is severely under used. One of my personal favorites of your posts was the one in which you created overlayed or clipped viewports, with different viewstyles beautifully displaying some roof framing, seemingly through the decking. Very clever, have never needed to use it, but I did replicate and save it for future reference. Unfortunately it has probably gone to .DWG Heaven on one of my multiple "gave up the ghost" CAD laptops! If you still have it, please post it. I gave up after looking through a few years of your old posts. That would make a great Tutorial! DAMN, I just spent a LONG time trying to find that post, as I wanted to link to it. It was a beautiful drawing. I did find your earliest review of the Ribbon, wherein you opined that the OOTB Ribbon was pretty much useless. In 2012 you stated that as of the addition of Contextual Tab States the Ribbon became the BEES KNEES. Back in the old days there were lots more questions of the kind I like to jump in on, because I could actually be of assistance! Of late most of the questions on the board are LISP related. I trust that unlike Tankman, Jack O'Neil, Nestly, JD and other old forum members, you won't stop visiting just because you have hung up your pencil! Enjoy all the extra time you will have in your workshop! CHEERS!!!

Could be PICKFIRST (System Variable) which allows you to select objects before you start a command when set to 1 or PICKADD (System Variable) which allows subsequent selections to be added to the current selection set if set to 1 or 2 which also keeps objects selected after the SELECT command ends. You can track them with SYSVARMONITOR (Command)