Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-06 Thread David T-G
John, et al -- ...and then John Buttery said... % ... % Anyway, without getting into a technical discussion about locale % settings and GNU ls...if you want ls to sort stuff the old way, put % this into your shell startup file: How about, still without getting into a technical discussion, a

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-06 Thread John Buttery
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:58:10AM -0500, David T-G wrote: John, et al -- ...and then John Buttery said... % ... % Anyway, without getting into a technical discussion about locale % settings and GNU ls...if you want ls to sort stuff the old way, put % this into your shell startup file: How

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-06 Thread David T-G
John -- ...and then John Buttery said... % % On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:58:10AM -0500, David T-G wrote: % ... % where to learn about how to play with LC_COLLATE to make ls do different ... % % There is WAY more information than any sane person would ever want % to see about locale

Re: [OT] Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, Justin, I wish I could find any diagnostic tool for my KDE of Mandrake 8.1. It does have some problems, like the damn small and vague fonts. It hangs w/o apparent reason from time to time. You use XKill to kill a window on strike, then the whole desktop gets on strike. I don't think it's

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-05 Thread John Buttery
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: Now let's see linux (for me, Mandrake 8.1): 2. The 'ls' don't group directories/files into two part. - If you code something to achieve it, you lose the COLORs. *3. Mutt's file browser - also mix up directories and files, which hurts

Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Charles Jie
There do be something I miss since I moved from MS-windows to linux - the file manager. (But I mean the old style one instead of the web-style.) Its features: . A directory tree at left side - very easy to trace down a branch . A listing of directory content at right side, while - A list

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Philip Mak
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: 2. The 'ls' don't group directories/files into two part. - If you code something to achieve it, you lose the COLORs. Try typing this and see if it does what you want: ls -d `find * -type d -maxdepth 0`; ls `find * -type f

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Smith
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There do be something I miss since I moved from MS-windows to linux - the file manager. (But I mean the old style one instead of the web-style.) [snip] There are loads of X and text-based file managers around. I'm an xterm

[OT] Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Justin R. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Said Charles Jie on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800: 1. The file manager Konqueror is not mature (crash so oftern) If it crashes, then your setup has issues. It has been stable for years... even for opening big directories like /dev. - --

Re: [OT] Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Justin R. Miller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Said Charles Jie on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800: 1. The file manager Konqueror is not mature (crash so oftern) If it crashes, then your setup has issues. It has been stable for years...

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread David Champion
On 2002.02.04, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Jie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - If you code something to achieve it, you lose the COLORs. But losing the colors is a *good thing*. :) color_ls hurts my eyes. Ouch. *3. Mutt's file browser - also mix up directories and files, which hurts

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread David T-G
Rob, et al -- ...and then Feztaa said... % % Alas! Philip Mak spake thus: % On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: % 2. The 'ls' don't group directories/files into two part. % - If you code something to achieve it, you lose the COLORs. ... % ls -d `find * -type d

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Rob 'Feztaa' Park
Alas! David T-G spake thus: % Why not just do 'ls -AlF|sort'? That way all lines showing a % directory will start with 'd', and all lines that are files will % start with '-' That's true. Of course, you throw away the colors when you pipe the output, IIRC... That's true, I suppose. %

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, Philip, Thank you for your idea. This does keep the colors. I rewrite it as: function d() { x=`find * -type d -maxdepth 0` [[ -n $x ]] l -d $x x=`find * -type l -maxdepth 0` [[ -n $x ]] l $x x=`find * -type f -maxdepth 0` [[ -n $x

Re: Wish about mutt's file browser

2002-02-04 Thread David T-G
Rob -- ...and then Feztaa said... % % Alas! David T-G spake thus: % % Why not just do 'ls -AlF|sort'? That way all lines showing a % % directory will start with 'd', and all lines that are files will % % start with '-' % % That's true. Of course, you throw away the colors when you pipe