Re: Quick view

2022-10-02 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
On Sun Oct 2, 2022 at 10:53 AM CEST, Andrew Borodin wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:14:23 +0200 "Riccardo Paolo Bestetti" > wrote: > > - Some of the files that ca be successfully rendered in the viewer (e.g. > > HTML, images*, PDF) show up as plain text/binary dumped as ASCII > > instead in

Re: Quick view

2022-10-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen via mc-devel
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 11:53:20AM +0300, Andrew Borodin wrote: - Some of the files that ca be successfully rendered in the viewer (e.g. HTML, images*, PDF) show up as plain text/binary dumped as ASCII instead in quick view It's a feature[2]. Quick view shows file in the raw mode to avoid

Re: Quick view

2022-10-02 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Andrew Borodin wrote: - Directories show the string "Cannot view: not a regular file" but it might be a good feature to show the contents, or maybe a short description of it ("X images, Y documents") Again, to calculate directory statistics, or get some info of file,

Re: Quick view

2022-10-02 Thread Andrew Borodin
On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:14:23 +0200 "Riccardo Paolo Bestetti" wrote: > One feature I like about MC is "quick view" (C-x q), or the ability to > use one of the panes to quickly preview files. However, I have noticed > that it doesn't work as well as the file viewer (F3). Some examples: > > - When

Quick view

2022-10-02 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
Hello, I'm a relatively new user of Midnight Commander. I have recently started using it as my only file manager, as I find other file managers too cluttered or too interwinded with desktop environments. One feature I like about MC is "quick view" (C-x q), or the ability to use one of the panes