Re: mc Digest, Vol 101, Issue 6

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

yes a movie [singular].
IIRC <enter> was a clever extension, applicable for
some extenstions. Eg. for *.tgz <enter> open the
panel 'on' the dir-tree.  The more common [original]
use of the interpreted menu is eg. <F3> to view/play
ONE single file. How do you want to view/play MULTIPLE files?
What would prevent you from selecting multiple DIFFERENT
extensions?

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> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:46 AM, chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
> > PH wrote:--
> > }} when I execute mc.ext on some files, while I have multiple files
> > selected
> >  in the panel, errors are presented {{
> > ->  locate  mc.ext  == /etc/mc/mc.ext
> > ->  ls -l /etc/mc/mc.ext ==
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16829 2009-07-14 22:33 /etc/mc/mc.ext
> > ->  less /etc/mc/mc.ext == ...
> >
> > So /etc/mc/mc.ext is a NON-EXECUTABLE text, in a syntax like eg. bash
> > which is
> >  interpreted [by the 'main' interpreter] -- it seems.
> >
> > How do you apply it to "multiple files" simultaneously ?
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> That is the configuration file for the MC extension feature (mc.ext
> for short). To use the rules within, you must actually use MC. :)
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> Select multiple files in MC, then press enter on a file for whom a
> matching rule exists, which executes the command based on rules in
> mc.ext, by way of temp shellscript, which is when the errors appear
> which I'm talking about. (For example to view a photo or watch a
> movie.)
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