On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:11 PM, 5l0|Z <xarxo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I started using mc recently, and I'm already in love with it, as a > programmer. > But there's just a couple of thnings, that kinda slowing me down, mainly: > > 1- How can I run something in the background, (say an flv) by a-highlighting > it b-F2 c-@ (do something with it) Now if I type something like 'vlc &' vlc > will run both '&' and the flv (in separate vlc instances) > Now I don't want that, I wanna type vlc & and run the highlighted flv in the > background.
You can write a script which starts video player in background, and call that script. > Now I could just type its name in the command line and append it > with a &, but what if the file name was too long? Use Alt-Enter, it inserts current filename into the command you type in. > 3- The renaming issue, if I wanna rename a file, I'd have to write down its > full path all over again, which is very slow. ? I use wildcards. E.g. I select all *.log files, F6, use wildcards *.log and *.txt in the "mask:" and "to:" fields and boom, all files are renamed. _______________________________________________ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
