Re: mc Digest, Vol 151, Issue 2

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl lowlevel cz>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, chris glur wrote:

> ] Depends on what is wrong and what you want to change. I used to maintain
> ] my skin under /usr/share/mc/skins - you may find there examples.
> ---------------
> Yes, that dir has: 95,749 bytes in 26 files !!
> Apparently these are all just samples.

No, just select F9/Options/Appearence...

I'd like to point out one thing I found - using xterm-256color changes the 
look of the mc, switching back to TERM=xterm the bold works again...


> I didn't find the WORKING file which matches the syntax of these samples.
> I need bold-font: white chars on black background.
>  Please!
> That's why we can't afford to <upgrade>: you could spend the rest of
> your life studying the manual.
> ----------------------------------------------
> > This gmail garbage does NOT allow to change <Subject:>
> > nor even see the current value, while composing.
>
> ] It allows, it is just in the pop down menu on the upper left.
>
> No!! You don't want to scroll up to the top and lose your place.
> While I'm editing this in mc, because gmail can't handle it:
> mc shows me ALWAYS at the top like:
> * the PATH/File, Size, Cursor position, time.
>
> Gmail won't show you that, because they want to keep you
> confused and stupid.
>
> And I don't want to send a signal half-way around the world to
> California, so that google can track my actions, by handing me
> one item at a time, which I need to individually request.
>
> In the 90's I had complete OSs eg. [ETHOberon] on 1M4 fd0:
> could Cut/Paste multiple copies of multiple texts on same screen;
> to keep the <mail headers> always visible & editable.
> Editable off-line. Accumulate all to-be-sent mail and send with
> ONE artillery-shot.
>
> How do you send 8 different mails to different destinations,
> with a limited on-line access time, via gmail?
>
> Google just wants to engage your attention, by treating you like
> a suckling: handing you single items on demand, and having an
> opportunity to interspers the dialog, with their commercialism.
> ----
> Thanks: esc + 0 works, when F10 is blocked.
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