On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Frank Dietrich wrote:
> Hi, > > how can I force the internal viewer to start in hex view mode? When I > want to have a quick view into a large binary file, it's annoying when > the viewer starts in ASCII mode. I then only can decide to wait until > the file is loaded and then toggle with F4, wait if mc will quit > because of less memory or kill mc. > > Is there any shortkey like SHIFT-F3 for ASCII view? > > regards > Frank Speaking purely as a user, I find the following to be true: View a file with F3, then hit F4. The view changes to hex view/edit. Close the file. Open another file with F3. It comes up now in hex view/edit mode, unless you hit F4 which now turns that mode off. So one suggestion would be to open a small file, hit F4, then exit the small file and open the large one. Also I would not be surprised if one could change the default mode for opening to be hex mode, but I never tried to do that. Thus, I hope that my little suggestion can get you past a difficult situation without too much trouble, until you get a serious answer from one of the development team. Theodore Kilgore _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
