Restoring the functionality of Alt-o
Jindrich Novy
jnovy at redhat.com
Mon Jan 31 11:31:52 UTC 2005
Hello Miguel,
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 23:40 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A long time ago I added Alt-o as a binding that would help in
> navigating directories. The idea is that in one panel you press Alt-o,
> and if the selection is on a directory, it will load the contents of the
> highlighted directory into the other panel. If no directory was
> selected, this was a no-op.
>
> At some point this behavior was removed from mc, and now instead it
> just loads the current directory on the other panel, which is not very
> useful for navigating anything.
>
> I remember having this discussion with Pavel but I forget the
> rationale for it. I would like to get this change reverted in CVS. Any
> objections?
The old behavior of Alt-o seems helpful to me, but still many users use
the new Alt-o to sync contents within both panels, what is also fine.
Let me propose some possibilities:
1) Revert Alt-o -> annoyed users because Alt-o suddenly changes.
2) Create an alternate keyboard shortcut such as Alt-i that acts like
the old Alt-o.
3) Keep Alt-o shortcut and switch between old/new Alt-o in
Options/Configuration.
Personally I vote for 2) because mc won't lose any of its functionality
and it won't need too much work IMHO.
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