> That (to me) is the main reason to use the -d... But then I prefer to use
> keyboard shortcuts to switch the focus...
I have "jr" aliased to joe -readonly so I use that as a viewer too.
Besides copying, I save blocks into /tmp a lot.
If fvwm has a keyboard shortcut for changing the focus I have
It would appear that on May 13, Alan Corey did say:
> FreeBSD used to have midc set up driving a script that drove mc after
> doing other stuff, so I used that.
>
> Spent over a day using mc -d and no crashes yet. An unexpected benefit
> is that now I can copy from mc's viewer instead of having
>> > alias mc="mc -d"
>> > alias mcm=/usr/bin/mc
>>
>> Or instead of mcm, 'mc' (quotes included) for an unaliased mc command.
>> Works both in bash and tcsh.
>
> I didn't realize that quoting a command disables any defined alias...
>
> It's a good thing to know, but for my purposes mcm is easier to
It would appear that on May 9, Sébastien Pérot did say:
> > alias mc="mc -d"
> > alias mcm=/usr/bin/mc
>
> Or instead of mcm, 'mc' (quotes included) for an unaliased mc command.
> Works both in bash and tcsh.
I didn't realize that quoting a command disables any defined alias...
It's a good thi
On 9 May 2012 18:01, Joe(theWordy)Philtesbrook wrote:
> It would appear that on May 8, Alan Corey did say:
>>
>> I'd have to remember the alias (or type alias and pick from the list).
>
> Which is exactly why I suggested putting:
>
> alias mc="mc -d"
> alias mcm=/usr/bin/mc
Or instead of mcm, 'mc
It would appear that on May 8, Alan Corey did say:
> > I'll agree with that... Though that isn't what I meant when I said the
> > above. Setting a temporary alias inside an xterm, roxterm, Eterm, konsole
> > or even an actual console such as tty1, would be more work than just typing
> > the "mc -
> I'll agree with that... Though that isn't what I meant when I said the
> above. Setting a temporary alias inside an xterm, roxterm, Eterm, konsole
> or even an actual console such as tty1, would be more work than just typing
> the "mc -d" as one would have to do it for each xterm, roxterm etc...
It would appear that on May 6, Paul Westell did say:
> Joe:
>
> > Of course, an alias only works for actual CLI.
>
> Au contraire! Any environment variables you set within a command-line-box
> (xterm, kterm, ...) should persist until the window is closed, but there are
> other ways to beat the
Joe:
> Of course, an alias only works for actual CLI.
Au contraire! Any environment variables you set within a command-line-box
(xterm, kterm, ...) should persist until the window is closed, but there are
other ways to beat the GUI into submission.
If your login takes you straight into a GU
It would appear that on May 1, Alan Corey did say:
{While "Replying to several comments at once here" so not all "> >" are me...}
> I don't have any wheel mice. I consider them to be an evil invention
> by Microsoft designed to cause repetitive strain disorder.
As bad as a wheel mouse can be, H
Alan
>> I have nothing good to say about starting MC with the -d option and highly
>> reccomend recompiling. Disabling mouse
>> support will still allow gpm copy/paste functions while not operating in a
>> GUI.
> Why? Does it crash if you remove mouse support or something?
I was describing behav
Replying to several comments at once here:
> If _MOST_ of the time your only clicking to restore focus, and you would
> consider disabling mouse support in a configuration file, have you tried
> setting an alias in your ~/.bashrc {or equivalent} file???
>
> Mine says:
>
> alias mc="mc -d"
>
> Now
> I have nothing good to say about starting MC with the -d option and highly
> reccomend recompiling. Disabling mouse
> support will still allow gpm copy/paste functions while not operating in a
> GUI.
Why? Does it crash if you remove mouse support or something? And I've
never seen the GUI vers
It would appear that on Apr 30, Paul Westell did say:
> > I haven't time to keep up with personally compiled applications. But am
> > totally dependent on whatever version of mc I can get from the {insert
> > currently booted distro here}
>
> You might be able to get away with adding a single fi
> I haven't time to keep up with personally compiled applications. But am
> totally dependent on whatever version of mc I can get from the {insert
> currently booted distro here}
You might be able to get away with adding a single file to 'upgrade' mc. If you compile --with-ncurses (not slang),
> I haven't time to keep up with personally compiled applications. But am
> totally dependent on whatever version of mc I can get from the {insert
> currently booted distro here}
You might be able to get away with adding a single file to 'upgrade' mc. If you compile --with-ncurses (not slang),
It would appear that on Apr 28, Keith Roberts did say:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Alan Corey wrote:
>
> > I think its great that its there, but is there way way to turn it off
> > other than starting mc with mc -d?
> >
> > Most often I'm just clicking in a window to give the window the focus,
> > a
It would appear that on Apr 28, Alan Corey did say:
> I think its great that its there, but is there way way to turn it off
> other than starting mc with mc -d?
>
> Most often I'm just clicking in a window to give the window the focus,
> and at least once a day I click the wrong place and mess u
I think its great that its there, but is there way way to turn it off
other than starting mc with mc -d?
Most often I'm just clicking in a window to give the window the focus,
and at least once a day I click the wrong place and mess up the sort
order. I try to not click column headings an
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Alan Corey wrote:
To: mc@gnome.org
From: Alan Corey
Subject: disable mouse sort order?
I think its great that its there, but is there way way to turn it off
other than starting mc with mc -d?
Most often I'm just clicking in a window to give the window the focus,
and at le
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