I'm reminded of the <pan Newsreader Mail-list> which had waves of arbitrary feature requests. Yesterday , when I tried again after years to use it; the chaotic, apparent random controls arrangement struck me..
mulinux from the 90s [linux on a single fd0] had a Mail/News program like `pine` but PROPERLY stuctured:-- mail ..... news groups... headers .... articles ... fetch reply .... You could say that Server/s is higher-up in the heirarchy, but that's seldom adjusted, so it's an exception. Similarly `links` is an improvement of the american randon-chaos design of `lynx`. These Xmas-tree-like M$-utilities come from adding facilities later, instead of being built to a sound design - from the start. `mc` is based on the decades old *proven* NC design. Don't break it! Although wouldn't it be better if: * editor: Ctl-F *appended* instead of possibly over-writing a file: like NC. * repeated view & search in files defaulted to the previous search args. ?? On 9/5/13, 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 > https://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. Re: Suppress directory not empty message (Marco) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:32:33 +0200 > From: Marco <li...@homerow.info> > To: mc@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Suppress directory not empty message > Message-ID: <20130904153233.GC27101@homerow> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 2013?08?05 Marco wrote: > >> When deleting a directory tree mc displays the following message: >> >> Delete directory "<directory>"? >> >> [Yes] [No] >> >> I hit ?Yes?, then another message pops up: >> >> Directory not empty. >> Delete it recursively? >> >> [Yes] [No] [All] [None] [Abort] >> >> I hit ?All? since I want to delete the entire tree. This is very >> cumbersome. Is is possible to suppress both messages entirely or at >> least suppress the second message? >> >> Is it possible to suppress the deletion window displaying the >> deleted files list with the [Skip] [Abort] buttons as well? Since >> the deletion/copy/move processes often take several minutes, mc >> becomes totally unusable until those operations are finished. The >> only way to continue working is to open up a second mc instance. >> >> I couldn't find anything relevant in the manual. > > So apparently there is no way of suppressing those messages? > > Marco > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 490 bytes > Desc: Digital signature > URL: > <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/attachments/20130904/49654cba/attachment.sig> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > > ------------------------------ > > End of mc Digest, Vol 113, Issue 4 > ********************************** > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
