Re: How to switch two -> single panel modes?

[Cade Foster <ahx2323 gmail com>]

On 10/28/2013 09:29 AM, Miven wrote:
> > Hello.
> > Does anyone know how to hide the second panel in one keyboard hot key?
> >
> > Currently, we may do this by pressing <M-t> three times and manually set
> > user_format (from "panels.ini") from
> > user_format=full name type size:4
> > to
> > user_format=half name type size:4
> > and vice versa.
> >
> > Thanks.
> I don't know of a way, but ALT-T seems to cycle through the Listing Modes:
>
> Full File List
> Brief File List
> Long File List <-- this one is single panel
> User Defined
>
> This begs a question:
>
> In my panels.ini I have this:
>
> ...
> list_mode=user
> user_format=name|size
> user_status0=half type,name,|,size,|,perm
> user_status1=half type,name,|,size,|,perm
> user_status2=half type,name,|,size,|,perm
> user_status3=name
> user_status4=half type,name,|,size,|,perm
> user_mini_status=1
> ...
>
> What are these user_status[0-4] lines for? Apparently user_status3 is the format of the user_mini_status, but 
> what are the others for? I can change them, but they don't seem to do anything.
>
> I have a guess that they have something to do with this:
>
> static const char *
> panel_format (WPanel * panel)
> {
>      switch (panel->list_type)
>      {
>      case list_long:
>          return "full perm space nlink space owner space group space size space mtime space name";
>
>      case list_brief:
>          return "half 2 type name";
>
>      case list_user:
>          return panel->user_format;
>
>      default:
>      case list_full:
>          return "half type name | size | mtime";
>      }
> }
>
> Perhaps sometime in the misty past, the user was allowed to define these himself, instead of being 
> hard-coded. Come to think of it, that would be a nice feature.

user_status[0-4] options used for list_long, list_brief, list_user and 
list_full listing modes respectively.