First think after de-lurking, let me thank all MC developers (is Pavel the only one?) for making MC possible.
I was big fan of Norton Commander at DOS many winters ago, (and I've seen many DOS boxes with NC in AUTOEXEC.BAT). I was postponing my move to Win as long as I could. IMHO, MC =~ NC is *much* superior over M$ Window's filemanager (=FM), but unfortunatelly FM does 80% of work of NC/MC, and was free, so NC was quished and "taken out" by "innovating" monopoly. Now, when I found MC, I plan to use MC as my interface for both Win and Linux. I am really thrilled to have NC again - do you know the feeling when you need to copy files, and your fingers will hit F5 without you thinking about it - like you do not think about clutch and gas pedal when shifting in car - you just do it. Unfortunatelly my C is rusty now, so I cannot help with development. But I still would like to contribute to MC community. First, simple suggestions: (1) Is it possible to configure mail list server to add "[MC]" to subject, if not there? Other lists have that, it's convenient ... (2) can we display URL of MC homepage, *and* URL of MC FAQ, in many places, like: * email footer in this list * first help page (at least as text) I downloaded MC for Win from some freeware site, and was not aware it is part of GNOME and has homepage. I might be dumb, but it was not obvious to me... So, I may be right person to write dumbed-down manuals.... 8-( (3) At MC homepage, can we place link to FAQs into more prominent place? As I read on useit.com site (about program usability), people do not *read* on internet - they just *scan* the page. I was scanning and missed link to FAQ on my first reading 8-( (4) FAQ is huge plain text file. At least table of contens should be clickable. I propose to convert text to POD (perl docs) format, and then to HTML. I can do it. And add more HOW-TOs... ;-) (5) I am playing with colors. Looking into archives, it is FAQ. (and it helped me - thank you guys.) I may add some questions/answers as I learn something. Currently I am trying to set a "white theme" - with white background, for ssh terminal. Having every color option at new line would help a lot... 8-( I'll ask more later... (6) About forgetting F-keys: Quoting Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) Forgetting keys. There are two known cases when it can happen. ... > > Currently my sollution is to have mc alias that first > > overwrites /.mc/ with contents from /.mc.good/ so that it never looses > > my key settings. Smart. I like it. > Well, I think I was wrong that it was fixed. I checked src/profile.c, and > it overwrites the existing profile without making backups. So if you > close xterm by Alt-F4 at the wrong time, you lose your configuration. > Only the hotlist is backed up, but not anything else. So typical for mc - > lots of good intentions and no consistency :-( This bug bite me, too, before I realized what is going on. Bad news, this bug will bite a novice when just experimenting with MC - and might scare her away from MC forever. Maybe keys/colors should be in another .ini file, saved only by request? I am not complaining: I like to MC be better - realise full potential! Thank you again for keeping MC alive! Peter _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc