On Tuesday 2005-September-13 02:15, Maurice Beckles wrote: > I think I found an error with mc.
PEBKAC. > (By the way I am a newbie) I was Of course you are. You are posting graphical screen shots of text-mode screens to a mailing list. You are running as root in those. You are proclaiming a bug to the **developers' list** when in fact you have a simple and probably documented usage issue! I say it's "probably documented" because in truth I am not all that familiar with mc documentation. I have been using mc for years and occasionally have looked things up in the online help, but mostly it Just Worked for me. And your particular issue, I learned about through usage. I'm not a newbie in the common sense ... 5-6 years in GNU. But even as newbie, my first thought when something went wrong was that I was doing something wrong. Rarely have I thought I found a bug. > trying the ctrl-o option to see if I could use my shell while having > mc suspended. However when I switched back to the shell it freaked > out and would not allow me to enter any commands and also gave me an > error when I went back to mc. The shell is busy. This is a feature. Yes, it is annoying but when you understand it you don't have this problem. In mc hit Ctrl-o again. Hit enter, in the shell. Ctrl-o to get back to mc. All done. > After closing mc and going back in the problem stopped. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc