Re: mc Digest, Vol 155, Issue 1

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

Simplified:
 HOW2 create selectable list-of-dirs. in F2 menu ?

Preferably like existing <hot dirs. listing>;

although less convenient; even dirs. numbered,
 where the number must be entered for the selections, is OK.

==TIA.

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> This query previously posted from a wrong account: Sorry!
> Q: How to create a selectable menu of directories in a F2-menu entry?
>
> A very useful facility would be the ability to move files to an
> evolving list of Dirs, as you browse your empire: possibly a DirTree
> of several mounted devices and partitions; since entropy dictates
> that when you go to buy X, you're bound to see Y & Z, which you now
> remember, that you also need.
>
> I've started editing: <0       Edit a bug report and send it to root>
>    towards:
> 0       Select Dir for current file to move to:
>         read -p "index of DestDir=" DestDir
>         echo "mv %f $DestDir"
>
> Previously, on systems that only had a shell I'd made a hack simulating
> mc's visual/selectable-file-list, with a numbered file-listing, where
> the entered number sets the file which becomes the argument of the
> action.
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> How should I be able to pass the selection of a Directory-Menu to:
>   mv %f <Dir>
> ?
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