Re: mc Digest, Vol 120, Issue 4

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

Consider <copy list of files> to be an ATOMIC action.
Else there's no end to the specification of HOW it's done:
going down to the level of quantum-physics of the hardware.

BTW, it would add value, if F7/search's arg was saved,
eg. as default, as you step a sequence of F3/F4.
Perhaps a key-combination already exists?
That's why continually adding features has it's disadvantages?

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> Hello there,
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> it's not the first I realize that mc does copy a folder contents by
> order of filesystem entries, not sorted according to how the mc panel
> is sorted. If I understand the technicals behind this, I wonder if we
> could not send files in a way they are sorted exactly like the way we
> see them or the way a human would expect them.
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> This can be disturbing when you start transferring a long list (or few
> files but big ones, or over a slow network) and go on the other side
> (remote..) and expect the 1st file to make use of it. Bad luck you're
> not receiving the "first" expected files.
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> This seem to only happen when you copy a folder, not when you select
> several files then copy it (in that case, WYSIWYG).
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> Any thought?
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> Regards,
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