disabling F4 opening large files
Dear list, when I press F4, midnight opens selected file in my editor. This happens for all files, even for video, mp3, iso image,... This obviously makes no sense. Is there a way to disable F4 for specified files ? in mc.ext, I see only the binding for F3 and ENTER Open= View= Which brings me to my second point: Is it possible to disable executing an executable when pressed ENTER ? many thanks, Martin ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: disabling F4 opening large files
Hello Martin, On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:01:51 +0200 Martin Vegter martin.veg...@aol.com wrote: Dear list, when I press F4, midnight opens selected file in my editor. This happens for all files, even for video, mp3, iso image,... This obviously makes no sense. Is there a way to disable F4 for specified files ? in mc.ext, I see only the binding for F3 and ENTER Open= View= Which brings me to my second point: Is it possible to disable executing an executable when pressed ENTER ? Maybe it should just ask confirmation when attempting to open a binary file? Regards, -- wwp signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: disabling F4 opening large files
when I press F4, midnight opens selected file in my editor. This happens for all files, even for video, mp3, iso image,... This obviously makes no sense. Is there a way to disable F4 for specified files ? in mc.ext, I see only the binding for F3 and ENTER Open= View= Which brings me to my second point: Is it possible to disable executing an executable when pressed ENTER ? Maybe it should just ask confirmation when attempting to open a binary file? I would prefer no action at all when pressing F4. I can define rules for: Open= View= but AFAIK, there is no option for Edit= or is there? ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: disabling F4 opening large files
On 18:06 Tue 29 Apr , Martin Vegter wrote: when I press F4, midnight opens selected file in my editor. This happens for all files, even for video, mp3, iso image,... This obviously makes no sense. Is there a way to disable F4 for specified files ? in mc.ext, I see only the binding for F3 and ENTER Open= View= Which brings me to my second point: Is it possible to disable executing an executable when pressed ENTER ? Maybe it should just ask confirmation when attempting to open a binary file? I would prefer no action at all when pressing F4. I can define rules for: Open= View= but AFAIK, there is no option for Edit= or is there? I think there is. Read ./home/YOU/.config/mc/mc.ext: #Open (if the user presses Enter or doubleclicks it), # #View (F3), Edit (F4) ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: disabling F4 opening large files
I would prefer no action at all when pressing F4. I can define rules for:
Open=
View=
but AFAIK, there is no option for
Edit=
or is there?
I think there is.
Read ./home/YOU/.config/mc/mc.ext:
#Open (if the user presses Enter or doubleclicks it),
#
#View (F3), Edit (F4)
I have tried following, but that does not have any effect:
include/video
Open=([ $(id -u) != 0 ] [ $DISPLAY ] mplayer %f
/dev/null 21 )
View=%view{ascii} mediainfo %f
Edit=
When I click F4 on a video file, mc still tries to open in in my text
editor. What am I doing wrong?
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Re: disabling F4 opening large files
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Martin Vegter wrote:
I would prefer no action at all when pressing F4. I can define rules for:
Open=
View=
but AFAIK, there is no option for
Edit=
or is there?
I think there is.
Read ./home/YOU/.config/mc/mc.ext:
#Open (if the user presses Enter or doubleclicks it),
#
#View (F3), Edit (F4)
I have tried following, but that does not have any effect:
include/video
Open=([ $(id -u) != 0 ] [ $DISPLAY ] mplayer %f
/dev/null 21 )
View=%view{ascii} mediainfo %f
Edit=
When I click F4 on a video file, mc still tries to open in in my text
editor. What am I doing wrong?
Martin,
I can not comment about what you are doing wrong but what I understand
about F4 is that it is supposed to open the raw file, whatever it is. This
means to look into what is inside the file, for the purpose of editing it
or otherwise seeing what is really there. That means if for example it is
a binary file then one may be privileged to see plain text or, possibly, a
bunch of hex numbers in a nice rectangular array. One might keep in mind
that this is exactly what some people want to see, and they are glad to
have a convenient way to do that.
Cheers,
Theodore Kilgore
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