On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:17 am, Mark Goldstein wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Lev Lafayette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Midnight Commander is a *great* interface. For those old MS-DOS heads
> > from the eighties, it's like Xtree Pro/Gold, but *better*.
>
> Well, Norton Commander is closer to MC than Xtree.
>
> One very powerful feature of MC is "macro" parameters. I'm using it quite
> often. E.g. I have different releases in 2 directories and I want to check
> differences between files one by one. I'm opening these directories in 2
> panels and use command
>
> diff %f %D/%f (compare file under cursor in the current panel with
> file with the same name in the other panel).
I do this in the edit menu, so I can simply hit F2, then d or D (I commented
the default d and D entries). I also colourised the output to make the changes
stand out, like when you open up a patch file in mcedit:
+ t r & ! t t
d Diff against file of same name in other directory
if [ "%d" = "%D" ]; then
echo "The two directores must be different"
exit 1
fi
if [ -f %D/%f ]; then # if two of them, then
diff -up %f %D/%f | sed -e 's/\(^-.*\)/\x1b[1;31m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
-e 's/\(^\+.*\)/\x1b[1;32m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
-e 's/\([EMAIL
PROTECTED])/\x1b[36m\1\x1b[0m/g' | less -R
else
echo %f: No copy in %D/%f
fi
D Diff current directory against other directory
if [ "%d" = "%D" ]; then
echo "The two directores must be different"
exit 1
fi
diff -up %d %D | sed -e 's/\(^-.*\)/\x1b[1;31m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
-e 's/\(^\+.*\)/\x1b[1;32m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
-e 's/\([EMAIL PROTECTED])/\x1b[36m\1\x1b[0m/g' |
less -R
fi
To edit your menu file, go to "Command" | "Edit Menu File" and select "Home".
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