Final (?) Version of the Midnight Commander Guide

2012-12-18 Thread mailinglists
Hi, A few months ago I posted a PDF guide to Midnight Commander to this list. Thanks everyone for their feedback - I've made minor changes to it. The final version can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/beetle_b/midnight-commander-guide/raw/default/mc.pdf And the general blog post about it is

Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread mailinglists
Nat writes: > Maybe you could add that the copy and move dialogs (F5 and F6) have a > very useful history. I probably should. It's one of those features I occasionally notice but never remember to use. I can see how useful it could be, though. It's not just in copy/move, but in many dialogs.

Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread mailinglists
Carsten Richter writes: > 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 lis

Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread mailinglists
> also, looks like a really great reference doc! > thanks for doing it, I aim to read it in full as I'm sure I'll learn stuff > from it, I've been using mc since I've used Linux, but, there are heaps of > things I never learned Thanks for the sentiments. -- Heard the one about the dyslexic devil

Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread mailinglists
> 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

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread mailinglists
Felix Miata writes: >> This document was designed for screen viewing and/or projection, > > Your statement is an oxymoron. Screen documents are written in one form or > another of XML. However, only I can And your first statement is factually incorrect. As the one who made the document, only I