Re: mc tip

[Jon M <jon tech uk gmail com>]

Indeed - Lynx-like motion is also my top tip.
IMHO it should be enabled as default.
Remember to save settings!

My other tip: ALT+S or CTRL+S for file searching.
Allows searching for names - with wildcards:
Example:
CTRL+S then sy jumps to first file starting with sy
CTRL+S then *sy jumps to first file containing sy
Further presses of CTRL+S jump to next matching file

If your keyboard or terminal does not have function keys:
ESC [num] does equivalent of F[num]
Example: to exit mc hit ESC then 0 (same as F10)
But why would you ever want to do that?

Jon

On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 19:00 +0200, Kertész Zoltán wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> I'd like to share one tip regarding mc.
>
> mc is the first program always to install on a new Linux, and the
> following setting is the first to make to mc once installed.
>
> Navigate to Options/Panel options and there (on the top right) at
> Navigation tick "Lynx-like motion".
>
> What this does it activates the navigation within mc with the four
> arrow keys (up and down the tree, left is out of and right is into a
> folder). It is called Lynx-like motion as the Lynx text based browser
> has this - I have to admit - really intuitive way of navigating. It
> comes extremely handy on headless systems, speeding up getting around
> in mc. I found that this is really handy, try it and see if you find
> it useful too :)
>
>   Cheers,
>
>     Zoli