Re: mc Digest, Vol 127, Issue 6

[chris glur]

OK, I tracked-down this facility on the rPi [newer mc version than my PC]:

man mc == --...
  Command Menu
...
   The  Screen  list command shows a dialog window with the list of cur-
   rently running internal editors, viewers and other MC modules that sup-
   port this mode.
-
So, when I tested it on rPi, I got:
   Panels:[root@raspberrypi]:/home
or in general:
   Panels:[user]:$PWD

What USELESS info !?!

What we need, is the list of INACTIVE panels [corresponding to their active
partners] so that when you've got 20 mc running [in multiple WorkSpaces and
terminals of X] and an event causes you to need access to a certain directory,
you can see which WS/Terminal has already got a mc open [but with inactive
panel] on that particular directory.

* You don't want to open multiple mc in the same directory, which increases
chaos.
* a decent windowmanager [blackbox / fluxbox] shows you which WS/Terminal has
 an mc's ACTIVE panel on a certain directory.
 Although with mc1: Active:dir1 Inactive:dir2  mc2: Active:dir3 Inactive:dir2;
 you'd still need to manually check between mc1  mc2 to find Inactive:dir2.

Doesn't anybody else need this facility?

How do you book-mark 2 dozen mc?

== Chris Glur.
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Re: Screen List (M-`)

[Mike Smithson]

I completely agree. It is useless, but could be *very* useful.
It has the look of something that once was useful, but kinda got
left behind in the transition from one thing to another. What was
it supposed to do?

I guess we need to figure out *exactly* what it should do.

I very often have many mc's running on various workspaces/screens/
whatever with many different directories/edits/views/etc.

Are we talking some kind of IPC between running mc's? I recall
there being an mc-server thingy in the 4.6 series. I never used it
nor do I know what it was for.

Any ideas?


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