Years ago I wrote an mc tutorial which gets 90% of the traffic on my website. Hope it is of use to you, Bryce.
www.trembath.co.za/mctutorial.html Regards, Jane On 24 Nov 2015, at 0:43, Jon M <jon.tech...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed - Lynx-like motion is also my top tip. > IMHO it should be enabled as default. > Remember to save settings! > > My other tip: ALT+S or CTRL+S for file searching. > Allows searching for names - with wildcards: > Example: > CTRL+S then sy jumps to first file starting with sy > CTRL+S then *sy jumps to first file containing sy > Further presses of CTRL+S jump to next matching file > > If your keyboard or terminal does not have function keys: > ESC [num] does equivalent of F[num] > Example: to exit mc hit ESC then 0 (same as F10) > But why would you ever want to do that? > > Jon > > On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 19:00 +0200, Kertész Zoltán wrote: >> Hi :) >> >> I'd like to share one tip regarding mc. >> >> mc is the first program always to install on a new Linux, and the >> following setting is the first to make to mc once installed. >> >> Navigate to Options/Panel options and there (on the top right) at >> Navigation tick "Lynx-like motion". >> >> What this does it activates the navigation within mc with the four >> arrow keys (up and down the tree, left is out of and right is into a >> folder). It is called Lynx-like motion as the Lynx text based browser >> has this - I have to admit - really intuitive way of navigating. It >> comes extremely handy on headless systems, speeding up getting around >> in mc. I found that this is really handy, try it and see if you find >> it useful too :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Zoli > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
