Would it be inapropriate to do small collaborative projects on this MaiList?
It seems a pity for different/isolated mc-users not sharing their efforts. Also combined effort/oversight could bring all the projects UP to the highest agreed-upon level. Eg. perhaps there's a suggestion for improving one that I did: cleanup the use of the ">"/cite when due to line wrap/overflow you get: > a too long line being cut without consideration of > the 'cite' > char; which is auto-inserted. So now if I F3/select the 3 above lines and do: shift/F9 [for F19] I get: > a too long line being cut without consideration of the 'cite' char; > which is auto-inserted. Perhaps a translator from: >>>>>>> Why did you stop? >>>>>> Because I got tired. to 7> Why did you stop? 6> Because I got tired. would be an interesting extension to my simple hack, which just uses IIRC sed and fmt. Of course this is only for Linux users. A util that I need is: * take the first 'number': N ; in this line, eg 23 from [23]Update Kernel with URPMI : done or not ? and search-down, for the first: "23. http://" ie. "Nstring.http://" and append 'that' "http:// ... <eol>" to a <file>. BTW altho' I'm far from a *nix expert, the 'data-transforming/piping' programming style of: A -> B -> C -> D where all the control branches/loops are hidden in the given/system existing utils A,B,C,D, is well worth learning and using. An example, which I initiated, and was refined by others on a *linux* Newsgroup [that's also why I think collaborative tasks on this List would be profitable for all] was: list all the files in the current tree: which are less than <last wednesday When I was reading the now-lost file> old and which contain "apple" and also contain "banana" and also contain "cabbage" == TIA. PS. it seems that to hang a whole bunch of utilities [to process the selected mcedit's <lines>] one needs to have a branching-menu. And I've just realised that 'my task' seems not suitable, because the <F19> is designed to work on the <selected text stretch> which is passed to it. PSS. I didn't find the macro's much good for tasks that need to call the F-keys. IIRC it stops in the macro to enter data. Does any body else use macros which call F-keys? Can you give proven working ones to test/confirm/understand? _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc