Re: Re: Bug: sizes of big dirs

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hi, Radovan!

> (hmm, Your name looks Czech, maybe I could write Slovensky, but
> I rather always write english, so my mails are "portable"  ;-)

You could better try it with Pavel Machek, developer of VFS (virtual file
system) for MC.

> You didn't dissapoint me, but, sorry, maybe I must dissapoint You.
> Reading some of the docs, I thought, that GNOME is the preffered
> version and the text-mode version could be abandoned in future. But
> what I'm more interested in, is the text-mode version.

I don't think you can find such docs in mc-4.5.55.

> I was only afraid, because for a long time (since August 2000 till
> March 2001) there seemed to be no progress ( I dont' look to CVS, I'm
> only looking for new releases, and there was no new release).

That's because its main developer Miguel de Icaza was to busy with the
GNOME project.  Fortunately, I could continue his efforts.

> On the other hand (looking at the Windows Commander on M$ Windows),
> we should either get to such a text-mode version, that will have
> _all_ keys working under X, or the Gnome version is good alternative.

GNOME edition was never meant to be a better MC, i.e. something that MC
users could use with the same keyboard shortcuts etc.  It was a hack to
make a filemanager for GNOME quickly.

A better MC for X is called XNC.  You can take it from
http://xnc.dubna.su/

> E.g. on local X don't work Ctrl-arrows (jumping to next/previous
> word), and on remote (from X-Win32 on Windows) Delete acts as
> Backspace for me.

I think that "Options"->"Learn Keys" can help you.

But there are things that "Learn Keys" cannot do.  You can use
--with-tm-x-support while configuring MC - this would link MC with libX11,
so that it will recognize more keys when it's running in xterm.  But this
functionality is very limited now.

> (But maybe I'm lame to make all keys work, or maybe set-up of
> Slackware 8 is different from what mc expects, or someone should pass
> me a good introduction to terminals, terminal database files e.t.c.)

Maybe MC should just suggest using "Learn Keys" more agressively.  I
recently met another MC user who had problems with keys and wasn't aware
of "Learn Keys".

On the other hand, I would like to avoid implementing another "clippy" -
"It looks like you have never used this terminal before.  Do you want to
configure some keys?" :-)

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin