On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Theodore Kilgore<kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have used mc for years and can't live without it. :) >> >> I recently updated to mc 4.7.0-pre1 so I can see what's new and the >> first thing I noticed was now directories are marked as part of -/+/* >> operations by default. For - and + there is a "Files Only" checkbox, >> but I can find no such thing for *. I have three questions: >> >> 1) Can I make "Files Only" checkbox remember its setting? >> 2) Is there a setting to toggle whether * marks dirs? >> 3) Or maybe a global "Files Only" to make -/+/* behave like previous MC? >> >> I also realize it's a -pre1 so maybe the options related to this new >> functionality simply don't exist (yet) or are not in the UI. >> >> I often use the Compare Directories function to compare files in two >> directories, which marks the differences. In my case I actually want >> to find the duplicates, so I would press * in one panel to invert the >> selection and press F8 to delete the duplicate files... now it selects >> the duplicates along with every subdirectory (since they were not >> marked as part of the compare operation). It's not a big deal but if >> there are many subdirectories it can take a while to un-mark them >> (since there is no "Directories only" option in -/+ that I can find). >> >> If you need more info, or if I should create a ticket instead, please >> let me know. >> >> Thanks for the great work! > > I have not yet tried any pre- version, but I have been running a recent SVN > tree version for a while, now. The switch from marking files with > Cntrl-Alt-Plus to marking files _and_ directories is something which seems > to have come in recently. I have also found this change to be annoying, > irritating, inconvenient, and, under some circumstances, positively > dangerous (think of someone who wants to delete files and not recursively to > delete subdirectories, for example, or who wants to move all files but not > recursively to move all subdirectories from an FTP site and discovers that > one has initiated a very different course of action and it is too late to > stop it!). > > I think it is natural that one might naturally want to mark files for some > purpose, and not sudirectories. Why change a thing like that?
There are certainly times when I would want it to mark subdirectories, and it is indeed something I have desired MC to have -- I'd just like to be able to decide when it will include dirs and when it won't. I like having options. :) _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
