Re: mc Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

> 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" <yury shurup com>
  to:
To all: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>, mc gnome org

I can't change the subject-field.

Thanks,

== Chris Glur.



On 9/13/10, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury shurup com> 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