Subject: Tools for heavy-duty mc usage. A typical task, like 'how to drive the Huawe 2552+ wireless terminal from linux', may need multiple viweres to be open: for a man/s, an email/s, a NwsGroup-article/s, the log of the task...etc. So if you've got 3 such tasks being investigatated, you can easily have 20 files: hence mc/s running. So, when you get your email or News, and it's got stuff relevant to task B, you need to know which of the 20 mc/S to switch to.
I've raised this problem here and on *linux* groups before, but it seems that users can manage with their full-featured-browser, which does every thing that they want. I've been using a tool that I hacked that starts off with lsof <but show me only the pid-numbers of "/mc">, and combined with `pstree -p` which allows the pid-numbers to be related to the specific Desktop & VT, which allows you to view a list of files open for mc/s and see which Desktop & VT to switch to, to attend to the eg. newly arrived email item. Here's a little tool which helps me to manage the Deb-Lenny test installation [on a small scrap disk, because Debian hasn't proven itself to me yet] which has no X yet, but is my only kernl2.6* installation: 1. 6 VT/s with mc/s just isn't enough. 2. when you have to re-boot [for these damned USBs to settle] you don't want to loose all your settings. So if you setup your user-menu [I use <f2>,6} to: echo "openvt mc " >> /root/reStartFiles pwd >> /root/reStartFiles ; %f >> /root/reStartFiles [I'm writing this without checking eg. the \n], you create a file of instructions which will: 1. open a root VT without having to enter the password 2. run the mc at the path which you had before rebooting 3. probably `cooledit <%f>` would even open the file that you were busy with before rebooting; but I find that setting my working side of mc to <ordered by latest used>, I don't need to have the file identified, other than that it was the most recent, ie. top of the list. So you generate a [previously execute enabled] file with lines like: openvt ; mc <the previously used path> ; <possibly cooledit thepreviously usedFile> Which restores your set of mc/S: working before you rebooted. == Chris Glur. PS. sorry, this web-based gmailer is crappy. I only use it for mail-lists, because gmail is good for filtering spam. 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Re: MC in console (Iain Mac Donald) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:40:45 -0400 > From: Frank McCormick <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: MC in console > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > MC in the console is displaying garbage characters instead of line > drawing in my Debian Squeeze . > I use UTF8 on this machine-could that be the problem? > I have tried reconfiguring console-setup with ISO and selecting > various font options but that didn't change anything. > Suggestions please ? > > Thanks > -- > Frank<[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:36 +0200 > From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> > To: Frank McCormick <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: MC in console > Message-ID: <1284050616.8385.85.ca...@mypride> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:40 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> MC in the console is displaying garbage characters instead of line >> drawing in my Debian Squeeze . >> I use UTF8 on this machine-could that be the problem? >> I have tried reconfiguring console-setup with ISO and selecting >> various font options but that didn't change anything. > > aptitude show mc > > locale > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:14:02 -0400 > From: Frank McCormick <[email protected]> > To: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: MC in console > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:36 +0200 > "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:40 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> > MC in the console is displaying garbage characters instead of line >> > drawing in my Debian Squeeze . >> > I use UTF8 on this machine-could that be the problem? >> > I have tried reconfiguring console-setup with ISO and selecting >> > various font options but that didn't change anything. >> >> aptitude show mc >> >> locale > > > fr...@squeeze:~$ aptitude show mc > Package: mc > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 3:4.7.0.6-1 > Priority: optional > Section: utils > Maintainer: Debian MC Packaging Group > <[email protected]> Uncompressed Size: 6,574k > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgpm2 (>= > 1.20.4), libslang2 (>= 2.0.7-1) Recommends: mime-support > Suggests: perl, zip, unzip, bzip2, links | w3m | lynx, arj, file, > xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer, dbview, odt2txt, gv, catdvi, djvulibre-bin, > imagemagick, python, python-boto, python-tz Description: Midnight > Commander - a powerful file manager GNU Midnight Commander is a > text-mode full-screen file manager. It uses a two panel interface and > a subshell for command execution. It includes an internal editor with > syntax highlighting and an internal viewer with support for binary > files. Also included is Virtual Filesystem (VFS), that allows files > on remote systems (e.g. FTP, SSH servers) and files inside archives > to be manipulated like real files. Homepage: > http://www.midnight-commander.org > > fr...@squeeze:~$ locale > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > fr...@squeeze:~$ > > fr...@squeeze:~$ mc -V > GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.0.6 > Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish > With builtin Editor > Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database > With subshell support as default > With support for background operations > With mouse support on xterm and Linux console > With support for X11 events > With internationalization support > With multiple codepages support > Data types: char 8 int 32 long 32 void * 32 off_t 64 ecs_char 8 > fr...@squeeze:~$ > > Thanks > > -- > Frank<[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:19:20 +0200 > From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> > To: Frank McCormick <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: MC in console > Message-ID: <1284052760.8385.88.ca...@mypride> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:14 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:36 +0200 >> "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:40 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> > > MC in the console is displaying garbage characters instead of line >> > > drawing in my Debian Squeeze . >> > > I use UTF8 on this machine-could that be the problem? >> > > I have tried reconfiguring console-setup with ISO and selecting >> > > various font options but that didn't change anything. > > Very good, now I have to tell you that I use this & UTF-8 on Karmic / > Lucid / Hardy and have no problems whatsoever. > > Are you using mc in a terminal emulator (which one) or raw console? > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:25:32 -0400 > From: Frank McCormick <[email protected]> > To: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: MC in console > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:19:20 +0200 > "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:14 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:36 +0200 >> > "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:40 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> > > > MC in the console is displaying garbage characters instead of line >> > > > drawing in my Debian Squeeze . >> > > > I use UTF8 on this machine-could that be the problem? >> > > > I have tried reconfiguring console-setup with ISO and selecting >> > > > various font options but that didn't change anything. >> >> Very good, now I have to tell you that I use this & UTF-8 on Karmic / >> Lucid / Hardy and have no problems whatsoever. > > Yes I checked and MC in a console runs fine in the latest Ubuntu. > >> >> Are you using mc in a terminal emulator (which one) or raw console? > > Runs fine in terminal...its the console which is the problem. > > > -- > Frank<[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:33:19 +0100 > From: Iain Mac Donald <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: MC in console > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:19:20 +0200 > "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Very good, now I have to tell you that I use this & UTF-8 on Karmic / >> Lucid / Hardy and have no problems whatsoever. > > I am using mc 3:4.7.0.6-1 on Squeeze with console, xterm and > xfce4-terminal all without problem. Locale is en_GB.UTF-8. > > Regards, > Iain. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > > End of mc Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7 > ********************************* > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
