Currently, when you click rebuild, you get a pulldown menu with five options:
It would be nice if those choices could be expressed as radio buttons.  The choices would be laid out before you - you could simply click on the radio button you want (if not the default) and then click Rebuild.  This would be slightly faster than the click, hold, drag, select, release, click that the current pull-down menu requires for selective rebuilding.

Now this might seem like a superfluous request, but when you're doing a lot of tweaks to a single page and you update it rapidly, repeatedly, rebuilding with each change (and you're somehow superstitious or otherwise opposed to linking templates to files) then this radio button rebuilding might just save you nanoseconds, nanoseconds that can pile up in a day, accumulating into time enough to spend away from these blasted machines we love so well.

lol, sure, why not? Or how about checkboxes so you can select to rebuild, say, index files AND category archives at the same time but not individual entry archives. Then if you make changes to several templates you can rebuild them all at once instead of having to do several rebuilds or using up server resources by rebuilding the whole thing when you don't need to.

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You could always replace it with radio buttons.

I myself prefer the compactness (is that a word?) of a dropdown menu.

Frugle

This is a great suggestion -- but how exactly do you modify a template that creates a form? I understand how to create radio buttons directly in a form statement, but -- this is a template from which a form statement is generated ... how exactly would you modify rebuild_confirm.tmpl to display choices in a radio button group, with multiple selections ... ? It may be more work and headache than it's worth ...

Good news: the next version of Movable Type, codenamed "Project Athena" will have a Rebuild Dialog that uses checkboxes as opposed to a select. That is not a radio button, but damn close IMHO.