4.7pre4

[SZABÓ Gergely]

y199mp1505 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Russian Team,
>
> Please make sure you call your init/config files in a different way
> from 4.6.1 or put them in a different directory.
>
> Right now your are modifying 'ini' without considering that users
> may want to leave the old 4.6.1 install intact.
>
> Further, it seems to me that you are playing around with effects
> (skins) and wasting time. You have no chance in hell to get
> agreement from the (still) official maintainers and from the distros
> maintainers on such visual aspects. Forget it.
>
> You want to innovate? Here are two suggestions:
>
> - A set of keybindings in the CUA tradition. Why is F8 used
>   rather than Delete? If the reason is the (displayed) command
>   line, the solution is that keypresses only reach the command
>   line *after* a switch key (assume F8) is pressed. So Delete does
>   delete and if you want to type on the command line you press the
>   switch key first. This would also help with Backspace and others.
>
> - Tree view. I do not know what the original authors of mc's tree
>   view were thinking but that was mid-90s. Currently, the tree view
>   is fairly standardized. You need a command to expand the tree one
>   level (e.g. Right) or to expand it all levels (e.g. *) and to
>   collapse it (e.g. Left). And yes, first admit unreservedly that
>   the tree view is not just useful, it is indispensable.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> frank
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Frank,

I think the name 4.7 pre4 suggests it's a beta version. Backing up ini 
files before starting to use it may be a good idea.

Skins may be wasting time, but editing the ini file manually in the 4.6 
way to give mc a better appearance is an even bigger waste of time.

Actually mc implements a lot of CUA standards, but you seem to forget 
about the Norton/Total/Far traditions. I think it's equally (or more) 
important to conform to those traditions. Anybody who ever used a 
two-pane file-manager knows by heart what the keys F1 to F10 mean. And 
they all expect to be able to edit the command line without any further 
complications.

Best regards
Gergely