Search 'hot-list' ..yes... Theodore Kilgore was describing: view/F3 anf edit/F4 both have have search file facilities, which have mutually diferent behavious. And seem inconsisitent ?
Since users are likely to have search requoirements which are common to may files/mcS/sessions, it would be usefull to have 'search hotlist/s'. I was recently forced to use DOS and was reminded how frustrating it is to be forced to RE-enter strings. Users and programms merge,in that much common activety is repetative. So, eg. linux's 'pick an action/string from recent history to repeat' is usefull. A definition of 'computing' is: "do sub-tasks once only, and then just 'recall' them " == Chris Glur. On 6/12/09, mc-requ...@gnome.org <mc-requ...@gnome.org> wrote: > Send Mc mailing list submissions to > mc@gnome.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mc-requ...@gnome.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mc-ow...@gnome.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Mc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. two questions about Slackware's "mc-20090514_git" > (Theodore Kilgore) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:21 -0500 (CDT) > From: Theodore Kilgore <kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu> > Subject: two questions about Slackware's "mc-20090514_git" > To: mc@gnome.org > Message-ID: > <alpine.lnx.2.00.0906112056130.5...@banach.math.auburn.edu> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > > First one: > > There is some behavior about searching, to which I am not accustomed. > Namely, when one uses F3 to view then "/" or F7 allows one to search. That > is, of course, as usual. If one is editing a file with F4, then again F7 > is used for doing a search. That is, of course, also as usual. > > But what seems to me to be new is that if I do a search, then close the > file, and want to open either it or another file in the same directory and > do another search for the same thing, now the contents to be searched for > are gone and need to be re-entered in the search window. I could just > swear that the content of the search used to be persistent, and now it is > volatile. Now, even if one is opening the same file again, that which was > being searched for has disappeared. I think it was much more convenient > the other way. > > Second one: > > Again we have the feature in the editor that tabs are marked thus: > > <------>err_code = reg_w(gspca_dev, 11); > <------>if (err_code < 0) > <------><------>return err_code; > > This is not a bad thing if one is doing some kernel coding and has to obey > the rules. It certainly does distinguish tabs from spaces. But look what > it did when I used the mouse to copy it over here! Since some kind of > meta-characters are used, why exactly do they have to be seen and copied > thus by the mouse? > > Even worse, when I create a new file called codesample.txt and use the > mouse to copy over the same three lines, now I literally have the arrow > characters in the file, not tabs. But of course they are supposed to > be tabs, not arrow characters. So it was OK to move the snippet of code > over, but now every line has to be edited by hand. Ouch. > > Well, one might think that I was stupid and what I really ought to do is > to use F3 instead of having opened it with F4. But if I do that then at > the beginning of each line I have spaces instead of tabs. So, as far as > having to edit each line after copying, the result is equally unpleasant. > > Interestingly, if I use "less" to open the file to be copied from, and > copy into a file which was opened by mcedit, then, upon checking, it > appears the tabs do get preserved. But no arrow symbols appear even > though the tabbing has survived the mouse-copy operation. Weird. Also > inconsistent. > > Therefore, the question boils down to the following: > > Is it somehow possible to mark tabs (that is nice for coding, obviously) > but when one copies using the mouse from one file to another, the tabs are > preserved, and appropriate marking for them is used or introduced, but > the marking for them (if it was already present) is not transformed into > actual characters, which then need to be manually removed from the copied > text? > > Theodore Kilgore > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > > End of Mc Digest, Vol 62, Issue 3 > ********************************* > _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
