On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:14:23 +0200 "Riccardo Paolo Bestetti" <p...@bestov.io> wrote: > One feature I like about MC is "quick view" (C-x q), or the ability to > use one of the panes to quickly preview files. However, I have noticed > that it doesn't work as well as the file viewer (F3). Some examples: > > - When quick view is open, hovering on some types of files (especially > zip files and derivatives such as epub, docx, jar) results in a big > red popup that needs a keypress to be dismissed, and then their > content is not displayed
There is a bug in zip-files detection. I hope, it's fixed[1]. It'll be in the master branch at next weekend. > - Some of the files that ca be successfully rendered in the viewer (e.g. > HTML, images*, PDF) show up as plain text/binary dumped as ASCII > instead in quick view It's a feature[2]. Quick view shows file in the raw mode to avoid any delays required to get some info of the file. > - Directories show the string "Cannot view: not a regular file" but it > might be a good feature to show the contents, or maybe a short > description of it ("X images, Y documents") Again, to calculate directory statistics, or get some info of file, we need some time. Any delay can annoy users. [1] https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4404 [2] https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4117 -- Andrew _______________________________________________ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel