Re: Mc Digest, Vol 63, Issue 5

[Renato <rennabh gmail com>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:32:00 +0200
Renato <rennabh gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:00:49 +0300
> chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I've never used 'ls -h' yet.
> > If you want to see the file size, wheter ascii file or any tpye,
> > yes, I usually setup my left panel to show: short format,
> > with the latest on top. Then the size is only seen for the selected
> > one. RHS panel, I use 'full mode display, alfa-ordered,
> > which shows the date and size of all files.
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > just discovered mc. Wondering, is there any option for having
> > > sizes of files in human readable format (as in 'ls -h')? Couldn't
> > > find it
>
> Oh, i'm sorry, i meant 'ls -lh' 
>
> I can see the file size in mc, what i would like is to see it in KB,
> MB or GB on the base of it's order of dimension... it's really
> difficult for me to understand how many gigabytes 273838492738
> kilobytes are...'ls -lh' does that neatly. 
>
> Renato

Any one on this? It seems to me like a rather important usability issue

Renato