chris glur <crg...@gmail.com> writes: > -------------- >> 2. The ghost tabs and ghost single space characters are not >> transferred........................................ >> anywhere else when mouse-paste is done........ > > You mean an exta comminication between the mouse-paster and the editor? > Such complications are to be avoided.
We already have them. You have to shift click to copy and paste with the mouse. Should we get rid of that as well? I have a good old friend who detests syntax highlighting - he did most of his programming before they became popular. Many people consider a spell checker bloat. You have to realize that you're arbitrarily drawing a line as to what's acceptable and what's "artsy". Anything beyond Edlin's capabilities is artsy to some. >> I understand that there is an option to turn these ghost characters on, >> or to turn them off. > GOOD! Show me how ? In the editor, press F9, go to Options and then General. Then outside of the editor go to Options and "Save Setup" - this will ensure the behavior is saved for future Midnight Commander sessions. Given that it can be turned off, is there still a problem here? I can understand it would be a serious usability issue if one can't and your grievances would have a lot more weight, but I think it's fine as it is as long as the user can choose it. I suppose one could argue which should be the default mode. > No. My requiremet trumps yours. > The most primitive requirement is UNIQUE. > All further fancy-facilities are merely ONE of an infinite fad posibility. And some of those fancy-facilities is why people use Midnight Commander. Also, I'll add that Midnight Commander lets you use a different editor if mcedit doesn't suit your needs, which makes things much more flexible for the user. -- In an Astronomy class (toward an Astronomy major, not that gen-ed rubbish) the professor did not tell us we would have to remember constants, and he asked them as questions. They were short questions, and weren't worth a lot. One of them was: What is the orbital period of Saturn? (2 pts/100) I started thinking about Bode's law and the posibility I could calculate it from an approximate radius I would get from that law... if I could remember it. But when you expect a 72% to be an A on a test, you have bigger fish to fry. Then I got it. It was right, it should work, and no one would have to be nailed to anything. I wrote: One Saturn-Year I didn't get credit for it. A couple years later a sophomore was telling me about this funny question he had in the same class. He showed it to me. It read: What is the orbital period of Saturn? (Do not put one Saturn-Year) I was so right that it had to be guarded against. Yet those were 2 points I would never have. (as told by SetupWeasel on Slashdot) /\ /\ /\ / / \/ \ u e e n / \/ a w a z >>>>>>mu...@nawaz.org<<<<<< anl _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc