> The multiscreen patch, that allows you to keep many instances of > editors and viewers open within one mc session has been merged > in the master branch and is available from version 4.7.3 on > (if I am not mistaken).
I understand a 'session' to be from logon to logoff. I believe you mean 'one VT/console' ? > If I remember correctly it adds a menu with all the running > instances of editors and viewers and the names of the files > edited or viewed should be visible from within this window. That's fantastic! So why is it never discussed? No heavy duty users here, who would need it - I doubt that. For the typical use that I've described you'd want allso the mc/S which were open in a path, ready for use on 'that' project, even if no file was current being viewed, edited. What are the 'steps' to exercise your described feature? > Alternatively, you can consider using screen or tmux and as > mc now shows pwd in the terminal title, keeping track of which > instance does what is quite trivial. Are you refering to screen's ability to show multiple files or multiple copies of one file, on a single display, so you would not have multiple screens open with a single one visible? There are obvious advantage re. clutter, in having a whole screen dedicated to a file-view. And screen would 'compress' 20 VTs of 4 tasks to 4 screens, which still need keeping track of. So the managment problem is reduced, but not eliminated. `pwd` shows <where you are now> but doesn't tell you <where to switch to for the emailed-advice from J on project P>. But a list of 'open' paths, which YOU have created, will allow you to recognise where to go. NB. mc copied the power/convenience of RECOGNITION over remembering from NC, which we should acknowledge. > Oh wait, I vaguely remember, that I already suggested this to you, but > got no reply or something The gmail inconvenience and my disinclanation to do twitter-kiddie style, plus the fact that every connect/dial-up costs me, is my reason for not doing 'one line exchanges'. > I have noticed that you came up with a good subject in the > body of the message, so all you need to do now is to make > a small step further and actually paste it into the Subject > field of the message. Do you really think I'd overlook such a trivial improvement, if it was possible? All I'm able to do on this: FC1 > konqueror is reset the default: To: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> to: To all: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]>, [email protected] I can't change the subject-field. Thanks, == Chris Glur. On 9/13/10, Yury V. Zaytsev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 16:32 +0200, chris glur wrote: > >> 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. > > There is really no need for this nowadays. > > The multiscreen patch, that allows you to keep many instances of editors > and viewers open within one mc session has been merged in the master > branch and is available from version 4.7.3 on (if I am not mistaken). > > If I remember correctly it adds a menu with all the running instances of > editors and viewers and the names of the files edited or viewed should > be visible from within this window. > > Alternatively, you can consider using screen or tmux and as mc now shows > pwd in the terminal title, keeping track of which instance does what is > quite trivial. > > Oh wait, I vaguely remember, that I already suggested this to you, but > got no reply or something... Hmmm. I definitively need to refresh my > memory. > >> PS. sorry, this web-based gmailer is crappy. I only use it for >> mail-lists, >> because gmail is good for filtering spam. > > Is it preventing you from typing the actual subject in the Subject field > of the email as previously requested many times? > > I have noticed that you came up with a good subject in the body of the > message, so all you need to do now is to make a small step further and > actually paste it into the Subject field of the message. > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev > > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
