Restoring the functionality of Alt-o

[buc]

Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote:

>Hello Miguel,
>
>Sunday, January 30, 2005, 9:40:03 AM, you wrote:
>
>MdI>     A long time ago I added Alt-o as a binding that would help in
>MdI> navigating directories.  The idea is that in one panel you press Alt-o,
>MdI> and if the selection is on a directory, it will load the contents of the
>MdI> highlighted directory into the other panel.  If no directory was
>MdI> selected, this was a no-op.
>
>MdI>     At some point this behavior was removed from mc, and now instead it
>MdI> just loads the current directory on the other panel, which is not very
>MdI> useful for navigating anything.
>
>     http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2002-November/msg00039.html
>
>MdI>     I remember having this discussion with Pavel but I forget the
>MdI> rationale for it.  I would like to get this change reverted in CVS.  Any
>MdI> objections?
>
>     I'm agreed with you. Old behavior of ALT-O is more good.
>
>  
>
Yes, the old variant is more preferable, and we patch upstream releases 
each time for it.
My variant attached (as an example). It is against latest RedHat`s 
fedora-devel build.

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		Dmitry Butskoj <buc at citadel.stu.neva.ru>
		Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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