Re: disabling F4 opening large files

[Martin Vegter <martin vegter aol com>]

> > I have tried following, but that does not have any effect:
> >
> > include/video
> >         Open=([ $(id -u) != 0 ] && [ "$DISPLAY" ] && mplayer %f
> > > /dev/null 2>&1 &)
> >         View=%view{ascii} mediainfo %f
> >         Edit=
> >
> > When I click F4 on a video file, mc still tries to open in in my text
> > editor. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Martin,
>
> I can not comment about "what you are doing wrong" but what I understand 
> about F4 is that it is supposed to open the raw file, whatever it is. This 
> means to look into what is inside the file, for the purpose of editing it 
> or otherwise seeing what is really there. That means if for example it is 
> a binary file then one may be privileged to see plain text or, possibly, a 
> bunch of hex numbers in a nice rectangular array. One might keep in mind 
> that this is exactly what some people want to see, and they are glad to 
> have a convenient way to do that. 

Theodore,

I have no doubt some people can find it useful.
However, I don't need to edit raw mpeg or mp3 files, and I would like to
have f4 selectively disabled.

I am not arguing whether this functionality is useful or not, I was just
asking this list whether there is na option to configure it.

It the answer is "not, this is hardcoded", then so be it.

thanks,
Martin