AMC patches ported to mc-2006-02-03-13.tar.gz

[Roland Illig]

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