Re: mc Digest, Vol 113, Issue 4

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

I'm reminded of the <pan Newsreader Mail-list> which had waves of
arbitrary feature requests. Yesterday , when I tried again after
years to use it; the chaotic, apparent random controls arrangement
struck me..

mulinux from the 90s [linux on a single fd0] had a Mail/News program
like `pine` but PROPERLY stuctured:--
mail
.....
news
 groups...
 headers ....
 articles ...
  fetch
  reply
  ....
You could say that Server/s is higher-up in the heirarchy, but that's
seldom adjusted, so it's an exception.

Similarly `links` is an improvement of the american randon-chaos
design of `lynx`.

These Xmas-tree-like M$-utilities come from adding facilities later,
instead of being built to a sound design - from the start.

`mc` is based on the decades old *proven* NC design. Don't break it!
Although wouldn't it be better if:
* editor: Ctl-F *appended* instead of possibly over-writing a file: like NC.
* repeated view & search in files defaulted to the previous search args.
??


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> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:32:33 +0200
> From: Marco <lists homerow info>
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> Subject: Re: Suppress directory not empty message
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> On 2013?08?05 Marco wrote:
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> > When deleting a directory tree mc displays the following message:
> >
> >   Delete directory "<directory>"?
> >
> >   [Yes] [No]
> >
> > I hit ?Yes?, then another message pops up:
> >
> >   Directory not empty.
> >   Delete it recursively?
> >
> >   [Yes] [No] [All] [None] [Abort]
> >
> > I hit ?All? since I want to delete the entire tree. This is very
> > cumbersome. Is is possible to suppress both messages entirely or at
> > least suppress the second message?
> >
> > Is it possible to suppress the deletion window displaying the
> > deleted files list with the [Skip] [Abort] buttons as well? Since
> > the deletion/copy/move processes often take several minutes, mc
> > becomes totally unusable until those operations are finished. The
> > only way to continue working is to open up a second mc instance.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything relevant in the manual.
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> So apparently there is no way of suppressing those messages?
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> Marco
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