Re: mc tip

[Jane Trembath <jctrembath gmail com>]

Years ago I wrote an mc tutorial which gets 90% of the traffic on my website. Hope it is of use to you, Bryce.

www.trembath.co.za/mctutorial.html

Regards,
Jane

On 24 Nov 2015, at 0:43, Jon M <jon tech uk gmail com> wrote:

> 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
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