Got lost in windows (was: Re: Mc Digest, Vol 52, Issue 1)

[Roland Illig]

chris glur schrieb:
> This crappy web-based-gmail makes it difficult to "edit the topic",

So why do you click on "reply" at all, if what you want to do is write a 
completely new message?

> But what would add much value to mc's usage is a
> 'singlr key jump back to the previous VT - or roll-back-history'
> like bash has.

It's not the job of mc to manage your windows. You usually have a 
windows manager (like fluxbox, fvwm, twm, icewm, KWin) for that task.

> So if I eg. cut from a file viewed in VT3 to paste to a file in
> VT5, I often have to re-examine the whole sequence of
> 8 to recognise which one I want.

I usually press Alt-Tab in that case. This works for KDE, GNOME, 
Windows, and maybe some other places.

Roland