Search 'hot-list'
..yes...
Theodore Kilgore was describing:
view/F3 anf edit/F4 both have have search file
facilities, which have mutually diferent behavious. And seem inconsisitent ?
Since users are likely to have search requoirements which are
common to may files/mcS/sessions, it would be
usefull to have 'search hotlist/s'.
I was recently forced to use DOS and was reminded how
frustrating it is to be forced to RE-enter strings.
Users and programms merge,in that much common activety
is repetative. So, eg. linux's 'pick an action/string
from recent history to repeat' is usefull.
A definition of 'computing' is:
do sub-tasks once only, and then just 'recall' them
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Today's Topics:
1. two questions about Slackware's mc-20090514_git
(Theodore Kilgore)
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Subject: two questions about Slackware's mc-20090514_git
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First one:
There is some behavior about searching, to which I am not accustomed.
Namely, when one uses F3 to view then / or F7 allows one to search. That
is, of course, as usual. If one is editing a file with F4, then again F7
is used for doing a search. That is, of course, also as usual.
But what seems to me to be new is that if I do a search, then close the
file, and want to open either it or another file in the same directory and
do another search for the same thing, now the contents to be searched for
are gone and need to be re-entered in the search window. I could just
swear that the content of the search used to be persistent, and now it is
volatile. Now, even if one is opening the same file again, that which was
being searched for has disappeared. I think it was much more convenient
the other way.
Second one:
Again we have the feature in the editor that tabs are marked thus:
--err_code = reg_w(gspca_dev, 11);
--if (err_code 0)
return err_code;
This is not a bad thing if one is doing some kernel coding and has to obey
the rules. It certainly does distinguish tabs from spaces. But look what
it did when I used the mouse to copy it over here! Since some kind of
meta-characters are used, why exactly do they have to be seen and copied
thus by the mouse?
Even worse, when I create a new file called codesample.txt and use the
mouse to copy over the same three lines, now I literally have the arrow
characters in the file, not tabs. But of course they are supposed to
be tabs, not arrow characters. So it was OK to move the snippet of code
over, but now every line has to be edited by hand. Ouch.
Well, one might think that I was stupid and what I really ought to do is
to use F3 instead of having opened it with F4. But if I do that then at
the beginning of each line I have spaces instead of tabs. So, as far as
having to edit each line after copying, the result is equally unpleasant.
Interestingly, if I use less to open the file to be copied from, and
copy into a file which was opened by mcedit, then, upon checking, it
appears the tabs do get preserved. But no arrow symbols appear even
though the tabbing has survived the mouse-copy operation. Weird. Also
inconsistent.
Therefore, the question boils down to the following:
Is it somehow possible to mark tabs (that is nice for coding, obviously)
but when one copies using the mouse from one file to another, the tabs are
preserved, and appropriate marking for them is used or introduced, but
the marking for them (if it was already present) is not transformed into
actual characters, which then need to be manually removed from the copied
text?
Theodore Kilgore
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