After decades of using mc I found a fantastic use of Panelising: display all the files which have "Class:" and <whatever> on the same row, or "Class:" & <class 1> & <Class 2>
I set the display for <full width one panel only> because when I eg. run `pTLC` from the <top of my dir tree, which 'mirrors' my physical storage space>, I typically get 2 dozen entries, where a typical one may look like: /ofcB/FlcabL/drawMid/HngFl/OCG/GrnAFROX <-- long path needs FULL screen Which means that one of the list of paper-record's relating to project TLC is located in real/physical-space: officeB, FilingCabinetLeft, MiddleDraw, .....GreenFolder-marked-AFROX. So the panel allows you to collect all the files which describe documents related to project "TLC". I'm wondering now if it would be possible to <search in the panalised selection for file/s containig String1>, probably I've tested that it's not possible. So then I just hit <F3> [or <F4>] to view/edit the description of that paper doco, to see what it's about, and if it's one of those that I need for what ever I'm doing. Obviously some papers relate to multiple projects. Then I just write in the file, a line with: "Class: do cat fish" and then I'd have a "pDogCatFish" script. The scripts are 3 or 4 lines of awk code, which USEnet specialist helped me code. I *DO* remember that when I was testing the system, if there were actually N entries of eg. "Class: TLC" the panel only showed N-1 entries. And it was always the top entry that was missing. Right now I can't remember if that was the 1st alphabwtical or the most recent, but a did a work around which AFAIK was eg. a dummy file called "==TLC==" which became the unseen. 'top one'. AFAIK, later, this list reported that the <missing panelised element bug had been fixed>. I don't remember using C-R or C-x. IIRC I used the <menu> to setup 'panelised' mode, and keyed in eg. `pTLC` or `pCatDog` and moved it down to the <panelise position>. There is a facility to 'recall the history of commands'. BTW a simple one-liner <find grep/awk> can list all the files which contain "Class:" and "cat" and "dog" [on the same line], but mc-panelising collects them all together for detailed viewing/editing. == Chris Glur. On 1/21/12, 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. Refresh external panelize (Steven Haryanto) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:45:19 +0700 > From: Steven Haryanto <stevenharyantol...@gmail.com> > To: mc@gnome.org > Subject: Refresh external panelize > Message-ID: > <cab_9sak42zxx80y3d_krrdivunp+pgmz1uf4t9ofic5-azw...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > Recently finding out (again) about External Panelize, quickly becoming a > favorite of mine. I'm trying to replace 'watch'-ing some files with this. > Is there a way to make C-R re-executing the command? That would be much > more convenient than C-x ! down down* Enter. I'm willing to use another key > binding, but how do you instruct mc to execute a certain command in > External panelize? Is macro the right way here? > > Regards, > Steven > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/attachments/20120121/238d2705/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > > End of mc Digest, Vol 93, Issue 3 > ********************************* > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
