Thanx for all the tips Marc.
Sometimes I wish there was a UNIVERSAL FAQ with a standard set
of generally accepted hotkeys for programmers to follow. There
is no reason it could not apply to all OSes. Take the 'b' key
for instance. I dont hava problem with it backing up a page,
but why not also have the pgup key do the same? How long has
it been since anyone has seen a keyboard which did not have
the extended keyset? cheeze.
I never worked at a unix terminal, never saw a meta key.
this is a clue to the basic Linux problem, where things the
unix users are usta with their hardware are not those home
users are familiar with. They are making progess on this.
F1 standard help. F10 standard exit. but what's wrong with
also using the esc key? how does it conflict with meta?
Can you even buy a pc kybd now without 12 F keys? Why not
use them all? no default standard is the only reason I see.
hmmm. mousitus also. the idea that you should do everything
with a click no matter how cumbersome.
> MC and FreeBSD don't play well together so I'm still fighting
with
> the keys.
>
> Different terms cause different behaviour (rxvt, xterm, konsole, Eterm).
> > Back in the Linux Mandrake User Guide and Reference manaul,
> > there is the list of figures.[period] no index. no mention
> > of MC. Nor is MC listed in Idiot's guide to Linux, nor in
> > Linux for Dummies.
> >
> Yeah. That's to be expected since MC isn't considered an integral
> part to any OS or distribution. It's just one of those nice
> things to have. I remember a buddy of mine telling me MC
> wasn't included with his Red Hat. Not sure what version.
> The GNOME version of MC sort of got all the attention.
but no index at all?? what kind of manual is that?
> Slackware, for instance, includes a lot of stuff in its ap1
> directory where MC is as well as stuff like mp3 players,
> CD ripping tools, various editors, MySQL, extra shells and such.
> I don't think most of that stuff is in the Slackware book because
> they're not a main part of the base OS nor needed for X functionality.
> Too much space would be needed to include topics on everything
> a particular distro might include.
how many pages is the slackware manual?
I've always written dos batch programs, beats any gui menu.
'AA' launches Arachne, NPT for neopaint, MDR for modem doctor,
and d.bat opens up the file manager on that drive. a.bat for
the floppy, e.bat the cdrom... just the single letter gets me
the drive.
but to do that with mandrake, would I havta be at the cli? or
would it work in the gui... with the 'learn key' thing?
and didnt I read that ctrl-alt-bksp was spozeta exit the gui
and leave me at the cli? what I get is the logon gui.
> There's a man page for rtfm, btw. It's pretty funny.
will do.
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