AMC patches ported to mc-2006-02-03-13.tar.gz
Roland Illig
roland.illig at gmx.de
Tue Feb 7 00:42:11 UTC 2006
Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Arpi wrote:
>
>
>>>On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Arpi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>select_dirs.patch
>>>> In select/unselect files dialog:
>>>> let mask/ select directories only, and /mask select dirs+files
>>>
>>>This doesn't seem very intuitive.
>>
>>Why?
>>/mask things in the current (/) directory
>>mask/ or /mask/ only directories (path has '/' ending) here
>>mask files (old behaviour)
>
>
> To me it is not obvious. When I see `/' I think root directory. Anyway,
> this is just me. What worries me most is the fact that this patch changes
> the old behaviour. I'd like to hear what other people think of it.
Selecting directories with a mask looks useful to me, but the leading
slash indeed looks odd.
Concerning prior art: The shell expands "*/" to all directories in the
current directory, and "*" to all files and directories. Here, the
problem is that mc's behavior already differs from sh's. Otherwise I'd
say we just imitate the shell.
Roland
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