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 abo

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, mailinglists, Du meintest am 25.09.12 zum Thema Midnight Commander Guide: >> 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

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

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Du meintest am 23.09.12 zum Thema Midnight Commander Guide: >> 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

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread Guus Bonnema
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:56:17 -0700 mailingli...@nawaz.org wrote: > > I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: > > > > http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf > Man, this rocks! Excellent job. Many problems and solutions discussed plus a lot of tips. And I like the present

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread Jan Synacek
On 09/25/2012 11:25 AM, Carsten Richter wrote: > Nice work, > > 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 > the display wenn it's messed up. I need to do the Ctrl-o twice. > It's Alt-` (backtick) and

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-25 Thread Carsten Richter
Nice work, 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 the display wenn it's messed up. I need to do the Ctrl-o twice. I also would like to know how to change the default keybindings. I was able to change

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-24 Thread Nat
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 18:19 -0700, Mueen Nawaz wrote: > Hi, > > I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: > > http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf > > The basic idea is to introduce it to someone who doesn't know about > it. > > Let me know if you can think of anythin

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-23 20:37 (GMT-0700) mailingli...@nawaz.org composed: Felix Miata wrote: 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

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

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-23 18:50 (GMT-0700) Jim Mehl composed: Felix Miata wrote: . http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html 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. PDFs are for prin

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread Jim Mehl
On 09/23/2012 06:37 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2012-09-23 18:19 (GMT-0700) Mueen Nawaz composed: I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf The basic idea is to introduce it to someone who doesn't know about it. Let me know i

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Mon, September 24, 2012 11:19 am, Mueen Nawaz wrote: > Hi, > > > I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: > > > http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf > > > The basic idea is to introduce it to someone who doesn't know about > it. > > Let me know if you can think of an

Re: Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-23 18:19 (GMT-0700) Mueen Nawaz composed: I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf The basic idea is to introduce it to someone who doesn't know about it. Let me know if you can think of anything to add. An acc

Midnight Commander Guide

2012-09-23 Thread Mueen Nawaz
Hi, I've written a guide to Midnight Commander in presentation format: http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf The basic idea is to introduce it to someone who doesn't know about it. Let me know if you can think of anything to add. Thanks, -- If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be