moin!
i'm using a debian-packaged mc 4.6.0.
mc forgets to reset the x window title when it exits.
a cmdline switch to replace the mc prefix in the window title would be
very helpful. i usually have dozens of xterms with mc open, some of them
are root consoles and some on remote hosts. it's impossible to manage
them if they are all titled mc -
a single esc keypress should be translated to esc esc after some
timeout. the timeout could be made depandant on the slow terminal
setting and/or could be automatically adopted based on measurements of
previous key sequences. dunno if this is simply doable with curses ...
the text viewer should support syntax highlighting.
the type/ keyword in mc.etx should use file -z, not plain file.
for now i simply created wrapper script for file and put it in the
path in front of the regular file, but i think this will potentially
cause trouble. using file -z allows things like:
type/^(ASCII )?troff.*gzip compressed
Open=gzip -dc %f | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | sensible-pager
View=%view{ascii,nroff} gzip -dc %f | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc
which is obviously by far more reliable than some magic based on file
extensions (don't you hate having your rotated+compressed log files
formatted like man pages?).
cooledit issues:
under some weird circumstances cooledit eats files (makes them
zero-length). i think this happens if the directory containing the file
is renamed below cooledit's feet.
similar, but by far not so fatal is that cd-ing below cooledit makes it
save the file to the wrong (new) directory.
c is treated like c++. that's somewhat annoying.
c++ style comments are not recognized after preprocessor directives.
vim marks #if 0 -ed code as comment. this would be a nice feature to
steal. :)
complex sh syntax highlithing, in particular bash syntax is totally
screwed. see these examples:
cont=$((${delay2[i]}+$now-$(date '+%s')))
${mailclasses:1:$((${#mailclasses}-2))}
fil=$(egrep -i /([0-9]{2,3} - )?${i% $dsh *}( $dsh |( $dsh
[^/]+)?(/.+)?/([0-9]{2,3} - )?)${i##* $dsh }\$ /tmp/xm-$$ | tr '\n' '\\')
dfil=$ddir/$i - ${sartist:+$(escape ${artist[cntr]}) $dsh }$(escape
${title[cntr]}).$ext
a backspace unindents option (as known from the borland IDEs for
example) would be very nice.
the type of white-space used by auto-indent should not be based on the
fill tabs with spaces setting. instead, the leading whitespace from
the above line should be copied. otherwise it's impossible to use a
tabbing style like
tabif (...)
tabtabif (cond1 function(par1,
tabtab par2))
tabtabtabstatement;
(which is _the_ tabbing style).
intelligent home which alternates between column 1 and the first
column with non-whitespace on it would not hurt.
some basic file locking would be nice. i often end up editing the same
file in two windows.
dunno if this is simply an issue of terminfo: a lot of advanced key
combinations (in particular [shift-]ctrl-move) are not recognized in
xterm, even though they produce keycodes.
as a consequence of this, it is impossible to insert selection into the
x-clipboard - entries should be added to the menu.
otherwise mc rules - i admit to be an addict. :)
greetings
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