Re: learning about mc

2015-11-20 Thread hohe72
Alternatively, the config file 'mc.ext' provides the opportunity to bind a command to the actions: Open ([enter]), View ([F3]) and Edit ([F4]). You can, it's worth the effort, have both: the build in editor at [F4] being a fall back in lack of X and your preferred GUI-editor on just hitting [ent

Re: learning about mc

2015-11-19 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
Please keep the list on CC. On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 21:10 +0400, Bryce Martin wrote: > > Can you tell me how to set these things? I'm not sure how to go about > doing it. I've looked for the $Editor and $Viewer environment > variables in the menus, but I can't find them. This should get you start

Re: learning about mc

2015-11-19 Thread David Both
Here is a good place to start. It is a short article I wrote about the basics of Midnight Commander for Opensource.com. http://opensource.com/business/15/5/midnight-commander Please let me know if you find it helpful. Thanks! On 11/19/2015 10:24 AM, Bryce Martin wrote: Hi, My name is Bryce

Re: learning about mc

2015-11-19 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Bryce Martin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to configure MC to open a particular application to view and edit text files. Currently it is using mcedit which is fine. But I was wondering how to make configuration changes like the one I've just mentioned. Set your preferred

learning about mc

2015-11-19 Thread Bryce Martin
Hi, My name is Bryce Martin. I'm Australian and this is my first email to this list. I'm a Maths and ICT teacher working in Abu Dhabi. I want to get better at using MC. I think it is a great software application. Can anyone tell me how to configure MC to open a particular application to view a