large file
Hallo, I just tried to inspect a really large file (/var/spool/mail/User) with mc. File size about 5 GByte, about 90 million lines. I've searched for the first occurance of Scanning / - that's the beginning of lots of error messages. mc (started with f3) doesn't find these lines with f7, but it shows them (thousands of them) at the end of the file. grep -n -m1 '^Scanning /' shows the first occurance at line 52,915,470 Running mc in f3 mode and using f5 for goto line: doesn't work (or shows another part of the file). Ok - such large files may be very seldom ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3
Hallo, Holger, Du meintest am 15.10.12 zum Thema Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3: I do all my coding in mcedit, I usually have about 8 windows with mc opened and copying between them is important to me. I usually use shift-mouse method. [top post and full quote reordered] To copy text from one mcedit instance to another, mark the text via [F3], copy it to a file (dflt: .mc/cedit/cooledit.clip) via [ctl]+[f], switch to the other mcedit and load the text via [F15] (maybe [shift]+[F3]). This will work for all instances of mcedit if run by the same user. In newer versions of mc ctrl f writes per default into ~/.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.clip Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3
Hallo, Theodore, Du meintest am 15.10.12 zum Thema Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3: To copy text from one mcedit instance to another, mark the text via [F3], copy it to a file (dflt: .mc/cedit/cooledit.clip) via [ctl]+[f], switch to the other mcedit and load the text via [F15] (maybe [shift]+[F3]). This will work for all instances of mcedit if run by the same user. Ah, but suppose that one wants to copy out from something being edited with mcedit into some other place? For example, you are writing code and you would like to discuss some code snippet with a colleague. So you open pine and start an e-mail and want to copy into the e-mail. What then? Then I copy the marked text with ctrl f to (p.e.) /tmp/my.txt and send this file as an e-mail attachment. That's a simple way. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Midnight Commander Guide
Hallo, mailinglists, Du meintest am 25.09.12 zum Thema Midnight Commander Guide: there are some key bindings which don't work here, maybe due to my terminal emulator (such as Alt-?). But for sure Ctrl-I doesn't redraw As someone pointed out, it's a backtick and Ctrl-l. I'll see if I can conveniently change the font where those key bindings are listed... Just additional: sometimes (especially with some remote terminals) the function keys don't work. But (p.e.) esc 3 instead of f3 seems still to work. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Midnight Commander Guide
Hallo, Du meintest am 23.09.12 zum Thema Midnight Commander Guide: I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf For those who really don't want to look at the PDF and are just curious about the content, I put the HTML version here: http://www.nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.html It'll have a bunch of LaTeX formatting interspersed with the text, but much of it should be readable. Fine! Perhaps you may add ctrl f(when editing a file) shift f5 (when editing a file) f15 (shift f5 or shift f3) copy a name f16 (shift f5 or shift f3) rename a name Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Again: Default size of filesize?
Hallo, Alexander, Du meintest am 03.11.10 zum Thema Again: Default size of filesize?: Someone did not understand my last question. Let me rephrase: When I use MC, how do I change the default numbers-of-characters that are being used for displaying the filesize-column? As standard, the filesize is displayed 7 characters wide (if I have counted it correctly). Where do I change the default length of the filesize column, preferably for both tabs? If reading german is no problem for you: http://arktur.de/FAQ/content/37/208/de/midnight-commander-zeigt-datum-falsch-an.html may show the place not only for the timestamp column. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Editing with mc
Hallo, Jobst, Du meintest am 29.08.10 zum Thema Re: Editing with mc: 1) I don't know a short cut key to get to the beginning or to the end of a file I'm editing, what am I missing? CTRL-Home will move you to the top of the file you are editing. CTRL-End ditto end of file. That's what I'm expecting, but the cursor moves only to the beginning or the end of the line! Same unexpected behaviour here; mc-20100509_git (Slackware-current) Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Editing with mc
Hallo, Keith, ke...@karsites.net meinte am 29.08.10 in mc zum Thema Re: Editing with mc: 1) I don't know a short cut key to get to the beginning or to the end of a file I'm editing, what am I missing? CTRL-Home will move you to the top of the file you are editing. CTRL-End ditto end of file. That's what I'm expecting, but the cursor moves only to the beginning or the end of the line! [...] echo $TERM tells xterm (running the machine via putty). Maybe that's the reason. When I go to the real keyboard (and not via putty) then echo $TERM tells linux, and Ctrl-end works as described. With old and new versions of mc. I use konsole terminal emulator part of KDE, under XFCE. [...] Ctrl keys work OK on konsole. Under putty most (nearly all) ctrl keys work. Only ctrl end and ctrl home seem to resist. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Editor save confirmation on hardlink file
Hallo, Aleksey, Du meintest am 15.05.10 zum Thema Editor save confirmation on hardlink file: I often edit some config files that are hardlinks, and mc always asks me File has hard-links. Detach before saving and by default answer Yes is selected. Usually I press Enter (because I think this is Save-Yes/No question) and then I need to recreate hardlink. This is very annoying. Is there a way to 1. disable this dialog at all and always keep hardlinks, That's no good idea. On my system I have files where I have to answer yes and other files where I have to answer no. And I like to be asked ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
invoking '^' in Listing Mode
Hallo alle miteinander, f9/left/Listing mode leads to a menu Listing mode (that's ok). It offers [^] in two places - if I touch them with the mouse a new menu history is shown. But how can I go to this menu only with keys (and not with the mouse)? Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: jump to letter shortcut?
Hallo, May, Du meintest am 29.10.09 zum Thema jump to letter shortcut?: I tried to find it in manual but without luck- is there a shortcut to jump to letter in MC? e.g., I hame a zillion files in a directory and would like to jump to the first that starts with P? Do you search ctrl s letter(s)? Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Question about auto-save setup
Hallo, Juan, Du meintest am 15.09.09 zum Thema Question about auto-save setup: In the 4.6.* days I used to disable the Auto save setup feature so that way every time I started mc it showed the current working directory on the left panel and a default location on the second one. I'm not sure if that was a feature or not, but I really miss it on the new version. The steps to reproduce this on 4.6.1 were: 1- Configure mc the way I want it and disabling Auto save setup. 2- Save the configuration. 3- In the right panel go to /my/preferred/directory 4- Position left panel. 5- Save the configuration. Is there a way to do the same thing on the 4.7.* versions? May be panels.ini is the bad guy who disturbs auto_save_setup=no. ~/.mc/ini leaves unchanged, but ~/.mc/panels.ini is changed on and on. Perhaps I make panels.ini write-protected ... 1) go (left and right) into the desired standard directories, 2) go left 3) exit mc 4)lsattr +i ~/.mc/panels.ini (lsattr -i unprotects) It's a bad hack, I know. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: wrong width of date/time column
Hallo, Frank, Du meintest am 15.09.09 zum Thema wrong width of date/time column: there is a problem showing file date and time in 'full file list' mode using LANG=de_DE.UTF-8. For dates (today-180 days) the date format is 'dd. Mon ' and for dates (today-180 days) the date format is 'dd. Mon hh.mi'. Which leads in a truncatated first digit of the day, as the column is only 12 characters width. Using LANG=C shows always the date in format 'Mmm dd hh:mi'. Is there an option for this behaviour? http://arktur.de/FAQ/content/37/208/de/midnight-commander-zeigt-datum-falsch-an.html Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: mc takes 30 sec to load
Hallo, Michelle, Du meintest am 30.01.08 zum Thema Re: mc takes 30 sec to load: [...] Maybe it was on the Debian BTS or the debian-user list. DO not remeber exactly but it has something to do if you have used mc to access a FTP server or a NFSA share and then if you close it and open it the next time WITHOUT the same connection (e.g. you are OffLine) then the DNS lookup will fail after 30 seconds and mc continue normal... Strange ... that bug must be new in the slackware packet mc-20090514. mc-4.6.1_20070309 didn't search such a long time, nor did earlier versions. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Mc Digest, Vol 59, Issue 10
Hallo, chris, Du meintest am 01.04.09 zum Thema Re: Mc Digest, Vol 59, Issue 10: ... mark-a-block and save it ! [...] Menu says copy to File... C-f 'Save Block' would be better !! 'Insert file... F15 how do you do F15 That depends! ... Sometimes it's shift f5, sometimes it's shift f3. Same game with F16 for renaming a file. Sometimes it's shift f6 (ok), sometimes it's shift f4, and shift f6 offers deleting the file (F8). Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: copy/rename (edit mode)
Hallo, Felix, Du meintest am 17.10.07 zum Thema copy/rename (edit mode): For years I've seen that in X, Shift-F5 Shift-F6 actually do as expected. But on the virtual consoles, I've only seen that they do that when running *ubuntu (and maybe Debian too?). In Fedora, Mandriva SUSE on virtual consoles, Shift-F3 is copy with edit destination name, and Shift-F4 is move with edit destination name. It's strange, and I have not yet found any structure. Sometimes f11 and f12 are taken from the right keys, and f13 is represented by shift f1. And sometimes f13 is represented by shift f3. It happens with some keyboards, it happens with some connections under Putty. All with the same distribution (Slackware 11.0), on several machines. No (simple) system, no (simple) structure. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: viewing tar archive
Hallo, Ethy, Du (ethy.brito) meintest am 18.07.07: How can I start mc to show a tar file contents like a directory view?? Have you tried the return key? And f3 should show tar -l. Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
mc shows parts of the old screen after f3
Hallo, mc, I'm using an elder mc (4.5.50) in an install environment (old glibc etc.). When I look with f3 into a file, some parts of the directories screen are still shown (lines, hints etc., a bit broken). With ctrl-l (repaint) I get a fine screen, but that's a silly way (and the full installation of mc doesn't need this key). Is there any key or other directive which tells mc not to show parts of the old screen? Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: mc shows parts of the old screen after f3
Hallo, ich meinte am 05.07.07 zum Thema mc shows parts of the old screen after f3: I'm using an elder mc (4.5.50) in an install environment (old glibc etc.). When I look with f3 into a file, some parts of the directories screen are still shown (lines, hints etc., a bit broken). Now I've found the bug - magic didn't fit to file. Strange ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: mcedit and mail
Hallo, Pablo, Du (pablo) meintest am 10.06.07: Is mail menu usable? How? A config to do before? you need the programme /usr/bin/mail - just install mailx or mailutils. Sorry - doesn't work. The program /usr/bin/mail exists and works fine, but mail under mcedit doesn't work. further you'll want your mail to be delivered, thus you might need to install an MTA (esmtp, exim, postfix, sendmail etc.)... sendmail works - I see much root mail (and other mail). Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: mc doesn't like underscores in dir name
Hallo, Pavel, Du meintest am 31.05.07 zum Thema Re: mc doesn't like underscores in dir name: the problem is caused by bad substitution of directory names by codes in octal form, which is fixed by: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/mc/mc/src/subshell.c?r1=1.92r2=1 .93 The correct patch is: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/mc/mc/src/subshell.c?r1=1.95r2=1. 96diff_format=u I have just changed the slackware packet mc-4.6.1_20070309-i486-2.tgz It's in the Slackware-current branch but it fits for Slackware-11.0 too. Many thanks! Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
mc doesn't like underscores in dir name
Hallo, mc, I'm working with mc 4.6.1 on some slackware installations (10.x and 11.0). As described in [EMAIL PROTECTED] (de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc) I've problems with dir names and file names containing underscores under slackware 11.0. mkdir -p /tmp/s_t starting mc, going into /tmp - that's ok going onto s_t and pressing enter shows a warning, but mc goes into the directory. touch a_b and mc jumps one dir higher (/tmp) and makes this file in this directory. Editing a_b: no problem. Deleting /tmp/s_t: no problem. The same steps under slackware 10.x: no problem. Another guy reports the same problem with openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 and i586 with mc-4.6.1-63.5. How can I get a better working mc? (please excuse my gerlish!) Viele Gruesse! Helmut ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
underscores (strace output)
Hallo, mc,
here ist the strace output (sorry for the long log):
chdir(/tmp/s_t) = 0
getcwd(/tmp/s_t, 4096)= 9
stat64(/tmp/s_t, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64(/tmp/s_t, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
write(4, cd , 4) = 4
write(4, \`echo -e \'\\057tmp\\057s\\137t\'`\, 31) = 31
write(4, \n, 1) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, , 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, c, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, d, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, , 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, `, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, e, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, c, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, h, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, o, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, , 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, -, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, e, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, , 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \', 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \\, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 0, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 5, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 7, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, t, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, m, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, p, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \\, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 0, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 5, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 7, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, s, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \\, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 1, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 3, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, 7, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, t, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \', 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, `, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \, 100) = 1
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, \r\n, 100)= 2
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
-- start of error?
read(4, bash: cd: /tmp/s\\137t: Datei ode..., 100) = 62
select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6])
read(6, /tmp\n, 4097) = 5
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([]) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted)
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(19708, [{WIFSTOPPED(s) WSTOPSIG(s) == SIGSTOP}], WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) =
19708
waitpid(19707, 0xbfd34380, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [CHLD])
ioctl(4, TCFLSH, 0x1) = 0
kill(19708, SIGCONT)= 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(19708, 0xbfd342f0, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = 0
waitpid(19707, 0xbfd342f0, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
write(2, Warnung: Kann nicht in /tmp/s_t ..., 42) = 42
--- Warning --
open(/tmp/s_t, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
fstat64(5,
