OK, your call. I think it's a dangerous option and that confirm dialogs don't work, because users become conditioned to press "OK". This is a known problem in UI design. Simply adding a "confirm" dialog (or a "-i" switch to command-line utilities) doesn't really help that much due to user conditioning and the indiscriminate nature of the dialogs.

I've also encountered the ^-A not working problem. And often other keyboard shortcuts that don't work. Maybe there should a "Select" or "Edit" menu.

As to your original request, since pspz asked for comments, I don't think switching to the Download view should be eliminated due to your scenario.