On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:22:03AM -0500, Day Brown wrote:
>
> But DC.COM had F6 to tag every file in a directory. Or if I
> tagged a few, F5 to switch the tagged with the un tagged. or
> F7 to clear tags. F2 deletes tagged files, F3 moves them to
> the destination, and F8 swaps the source and destination.
>
All of those things you mentioned above are what MC does.
`*' tags everything. If some files are already tagged it switches
like the F5 you mention above.
INSERT tags/untags individual files
`+' pops up a dialog asking you what you want tagged (like *.html)
`-' Same for untagging a filespec
If you have a mouse the right button can also be used to tag.
F5 Copy file or tagged files
F6 Move file or tagged files (Also for renaming)
F8 Delete file or tagged files
You get quite a few destination options when using those commands also.
> It also shows me the date and size of the file. Another, more
> recent file manager, 'directory freedom' or DF.com lets me
> build macros, calls up a file editor, or executes an executable
> insteadda requiring me to go to the dos command line.
>
MC, just like NC and others of its ilk do all the above.
Pressing Alt-T toggles the display to show everything (like ls -al),
just files (with the size and permissions on the status line),
or a display with three columns showing name, size, date.
You can also set up one custom view.
You can also do the above via the menus
Alt-F9 -->Left or Right panel --> Listing mode...
Pressing ENTER on a file will execute a given program for that
filetype (such as hitting Enter on a html file brings up Lynx).
F3 View files. This will render/format files a certain way
(such as view html files in the built-in viewer)
F4 Edit files. Depending on the file it'll call either the built-in
editor or something else, such as vi/vim if you try to edit a
compressed text file. This way you don't have to worry about
uncompressing, editing, re-compressing. It's all done on the fly.
Of course pressing ENTER on an executable will run it.
You can setup all kinds of stuff in say /usr/lib/mc/mc.ext
I also have a feature-rich mc.menu that allows me to do a bunch
of stuff, especially with compressed files.
> I think there is more functionality missing in MC, but it dont
> cometa mind right now, and- there may be more that MC can do that
> I dont know about, but again, the documentation with DF is several
> times bigger than that of MC.
>
I am sure I already sent a post like this the last time you or
someone else said MC was lacking.
Take the time to actually use it. Use F1 for help and you'll find
all that stuff.
A agree about MC's lack of documentation. I found out by accident
that it has the ability to browse an audio CD like a normal
directory where one can copy out a track as a wav file.
Built-in CD ripping I suppose. Of course it requires you have
the necessary tools (cdparanoia I think).
I pretty much live within MC on Linux.
Marc
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