Re: IBM Systems Mag sez "All Hail the Midnight Commander!"

2018-11-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to think I am in an X environment when I am not, wants to run an X-dependent application, and can't. But I have never found any adequate substitute for MC. Theodore Kilgore On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, James Wonnacott wrote: I've only ever used CLI since I started with Linux in mid 90s and MC is always

Re: Changes in the keymap?

2018-09-05 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Amen to Chris. Though I do not know if the post below was from a developer or from an individual user. But I would say that the key mappings of MC are so well established by long tradition that they really ought not to be messed with. And in particular things like Cntrl-C really do have

Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

2017-09-12 Thread Theodore Kilgore
, and reopen it only if the problem comes back. Cheers, Theodore Kilgore On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Thomas, The output of locale (invoked without arguments) is as follows, between the two lines

Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

2017-09-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
problem it seems to me that what needs to be done is to set up a way to turn all three of these settings on. However, I do not know what I am supposed to do in order to carry that out. Change some configuration file, I suppose, or else do a local override. But I suspect that the settings are

use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

2017-09-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
, but I have no clue about what that magic option might be. Or, it could possibly be some library which deals with graphics and is somehow broken on an AMD-based machine. I am pretty much guessing, of course, but to fix the problem would be nice. Anyone have an idea? Theodore Kilgore

Re: Why does one have to "Press any key to continue" after running a command?

2016-08-23 Thread Theodore Kilgore
xactly clear. Thanks. On 2016-08-23 10:38, Theodore Kilgore wrote: For example: Running Midnight Commander, with the panels turned on, I do a command such as latex Cntl-Enter (using the Cntl-Enter seqiemce tp bring a filename down to the command line, so tha

Why does one have to "Press any key to continue" after running a command?

2016-08-23 Thread Theodore Kilgore
the panel back. Instead, one sees "Press any key to continue" Perhaps there is a good reason for doing things this way, but I cannot figure out what it might be. Also I can not find any option in "man mc" which would look as though it ought to be what one should do to turn

Problem with Shell link

2015-02-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
some good guesses, it is very difficult to work toward a solution in the absence of debug output. Does anyone have any clever suggestions? Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: mc Digest, Vol 120, Issue 7

2014-05-31 Thread Theodore Kilgore
as of now. It could be that there has been some misunderstanding on your part. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org

Key bindings for the Samsung Chromebook

2014-05-25 Thread Theodore Kilgore
the knowledgeable are most welcome. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: disabling F4 opening large files

2014-04-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to have a convenient way to do that. Cheers, Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: What is audio/x-wav D)download or C)cancel anyway?

2013-09-03 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Andrew Borodin wrote: On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 19:41:17 -0500 (CDT) Theodore Kilgore wrote: and why do I get a black screen with this mysterious message at the bottom when I am attempting to play a WAV file in MC running in a terminal (not in X!)? And, of course, I

What is audio/x-wav D)download or C)cancel anyway?

2013-09-02 Thread Theodore Kilgore
and why do I get a black screen with this mysterious message at the bottom when I am attempting to play a WAV file in MC running in a terminal (not in X!)? And, of course, I just get this message, no music. What in the world is happening, here? Just upgraded to Slackware Current on my old

Re: mc Digest, Vol 109, Issue 2

2013-05-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
be an interesting idea. However, I myself own no hardware which uses either one of these protocols. BTW, how do I ask a 800 char question to a user whose twitter-adr only is known? No idea. I don't do Twitter or any other social-media setup. Theodore Kilgore == TIA. On 5/3/13, mc-requ...@gnome.org mc

Re: mc Digest, Vol 107, Issue 3

2013-04-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to buy a new SD card to stick SlackArm on it instead of wiping the old one. Also as I said I think that Debian does have a functioning mc in its repository somewhere. Anyway, it's lots of fun for them that likes things like this. Theodore Kilgore I've analysed why many people HATE mc

Re: mc Digest, Vol 107, Issue 3

2013-04-02 Thread Theodore Kilgore
attempt to get the RPi up and running, back when I first got one of them. As to why Debian seems to bypass mc as part of the basic distribution and seems to want to make people go and get it instead, I have no idea. I have often wondered about that obvious omission, myself. Theodore Kilgore

Re: mc Digest, Vol 105, Issue 7

2013-01-27 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, chris glur wrote: } it happened (and happened on my little RPI too) How did you get mc to run on RPI? I bought 2 RPI. 1 with the default debian OS, and 1 with no CF-card yet. After booting RPI, the first apps I checked for were `mc` `gpm`. Neither existed. I

Re: Funny action on opening a pdf document

2013-01-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: [Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-19] OK. I can not do any more of this on the machine which is in the workplace right now, but I tried it at home on my Raspberry Pi which was having the same problem. It seems to fix the problem well enough

Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3

2012-10-15 Thread Theodore Kilgore
and want to copy into the e-mail. What then? The point is, mcedit needs to be not just friendly to itself but also to other applications. Theodore Kilgore On 10/15/2012 08:54 AM, Martin Mísa? wrote: I do all my coding in mcedit, I usually have about 8 windows with mc opened and copying

Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3

2012-10-13 Thread Theodore Kilgore
times because they get in the way of mouse-copy or mouse-paste. In the mcedit config options, there is indeed a way to turn them off, which would seem to solve that problem for you. Cheers, Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org

Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3

2012-10-13 Thread Theodore Kilgore
wire this as an option in the configuration for MC, too. [...] (cute story, BTW. I don't teach astronomy, but I do teach mathematics and I can see things like that from both sides of the desk) Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org

Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3

2012-10-12 Thread Theodore Kilgore
will pick up everything else with a mouse-copy but will just not pick up the ghost-characters? I myself am not sufficiently familiar with the internals of the MC code to look into this, sorry to say. But it sure would be a nice feature if we had it. Theodore Kilgore

Re: mc Digest, Vol 102, Issue 3

2012-10-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
-visible in an editor. Now if only the mouse could be trained not to copy them ... Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: mc Digest, Vol 101, Issue 10

2012-09-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
that the above helps. Happy mouse-copying. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: go to parent directory with backspace

2012-05-17 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to make the other panel to show the same directory, and you can also use Alt-o to make the other panel go to the parent directory of the current one. BTW, these two items are well documented. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org

Re: What is the difference between Change time and Modify time?

2011-07-31 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Andrew Borodin wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:10:41 -0500 (CDT) Theodore Kilgore wrote: To answer your question, please read the stat(2) man page and find description of change time (ctime) and modify time (mtime) Probably, the built-in help should be more verbose

What is the difference between Change time and Modify time?

2011-07-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to be something which is either redundant or confusing, or possibly both. Therefore, I thought it might be good to ask. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: Unity redefines F10

2011-04-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
be for a few of the mouse draggers actually to learn something about the history and origins of the operating system and environment which they claim to be improving, and then everyone could be much happier. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http

Re: Unity redefines F10

2011-04-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
that the above suggestions might help a little bit, Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: Unity redefines F10

2011-04-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, William Kimber wrote: On Saturday 30 April 2011 04:32:42 Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: Hi! On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 03:52 -0400, Jabba Laci wrote: Do you know how to get back F10 in Unity? I haven't found it yet. Yes

Re: mc from minicom

2010-11-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
reserved. 2. The Learn keys setup option might possibly also be helpful. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: mc editor shows

2010-10-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
and under none of these am I able to find an item labelled Editor. This leaves me feeling a bit frustrated, as well as, possibly, foolish... Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: Irritations and frustrations with improved(?) search functionality

2010-04-26 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: Hi! On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 20:17 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Catch 22. I am supposed to give a complete description of a problem, and then the message is too long. I think you know very well what I am talking about. It's just

Re: Irritations and frustrations with improved(?) search functionality

2010-04-25 Thread Theodore Kilgore
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Re: Bug in internal viewer in mc 4.7.1

2010-03-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Mar 9, Theodore Kilgore did say: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Reynir Stefansson wrote: Indeed. For that matter, why would I want to continue a search after finding one or more occurrences of the search string, and then have

Re: mcedit

2010-03-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
not try to solve his problem by screwing things up for others. Try to think of another way around his problem, instead. Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: mcedit

2010-03-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 16:21 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote: At the same time, I can see that someone else has a different problem and needs not to see them. I can understand his problem, and I sympathize. But please do not try to solve his problem

Re: Bug in internal viewer in mc 4.7.1

2010-03-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Commander is not Firefox and is not used for the same purposes. BTW, whoever fixed the bug about persistence of a search from one file to another does get my thanks! The latest version of MC that I got now will keep the same search instead of forcing one to re-type it every time. Theodore Kilgore

Re: Sync file on write?

2009-12-27 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to the same destination using command-line tools only? And run a time comparison under both circumstances? Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: Sync file on write?

2009-12-27 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I have a USB device and write speed is terrible when I copy more than 1 file to it (it is mounted in async mode

Re: How to change the defaults for file highlighting?

2009-11-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 12:35 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote: So from what I understand you have now made this more permanent by providing a tie-in to the ini file? If so, then that's great. We can all be happy. Yes, from now on you should be able

Re: How to change the defaults for file highlighting? (fwd)

2009-11-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Oops. I didn't reply to the list. Fixed, now. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:44:02 +0100 From: Yury V. Zaytsev y...@shurup.com To: Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu Subject: Re: How to change the defaults for file highlighting? On Sun, 2009-11

Re: How to change the defaults for file highlighting?

2009-11-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 13:39 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Thanks. Now if someone can specify exactly which code version this is and exactly where to get it? [Midnight-Commander] select_flags = ... /* selection flags */ typedef enum

How to change the defaults for file highlighting?

2009-11-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
instead of [ ] Files only ? If there is such an option, I have not succeeded in finding it. Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

2009-11-03 Thread Theodore Kilgore
(follow-up) On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Theodore, Du meintest am 27.10.09 zum Thema Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives: Does anyone happen to know if similar procedures will open a Slackware .txz file

Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

2009-10-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
of them currently work. Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

2009-10-27 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 15:16:57 Theodore Kilgore wrote: Does anyone happen to know if similar procedures will open a Slackware .txz file or not? Slackware 13's mc works fine with .txz packages. Sorry, this is on my list of things to look

Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

2009-10-27 Thread Theodore Kilgore
of fact it does not work over here. Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Re: Mc Digest, Vol 63, Issue 1

2009-07-05 Thread Theodore Kilgore
is a server. And I do not walk off from that one and leave myself logged in. Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Problems with search functionality.

2009-07-02 Thread Theodore Kilgore
toggles off the one selected first in order to enable the second. :-( If this has already been noticed and fixed and I should get a more up-to-date version, then please let me know. Theodore Kilgore --- For some reason, I did not get around to sending this back when I wrote

Re: Mc Digest, Vol 62, Issue 3

2009-06-14 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, chris glur wrote: 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 ? Actually, Chris, I was not complaining about the fact

two questions about Slackware's mc-20090514_git

2009-06-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
? Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

for the wish list: support for reading LZM and LZMA compressed formats

2009-05-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
the problem on my part. Thus, I could in practical terms probably not be of much use in the project. If anyone knows more about how to do this kind of thing and thinks I can help anyway, please let me know. I really would like to see it get done. Theodore Kilgore

Re: annoyances which seem to arise from Unicode

2009-04-21 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: Theodore Kilgore wrote: I wrote in some time ago about the problem of some key bindings not working properly in an xterm. Namely, the Cntrl and Alt key behavior changes from what it is in the terminal. The Alt key bindings for MC cease to work

Re: Mc Digest, Vol 60, Issue 7

2009-04-21 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, chris glur wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:49:40 -0500 (CDT) Theodore Kilgore wrote: and switched over to be root in that xterm. In this event, the root user's copy of the .Xdefaults file is obviously either not read, or is inoperative. My /root/.Xdefaults has got

annoyances which seem to arise from Unicode

2009-04-18 Thread Theodore Kilgore
if one has a copy of the .Xdefaults file, with identical contents, on both machines. Clearly, it does not get read when one makes a connection in from the outside, using ssh. Any suggestions? Theodore Kilgore ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org