mc Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 02:43 +0200, chris glur wrote:

> I understand a 'session' to be from logon to logoff.
> I believe you mean 'one VT/console' ?

By "session" I mean from the moment you start mc in a vt or console to
the moment you exit mc.

> That's fantastic! So why is it never discussed? No heavy duty
> users here, who would need it - I doubt that.

It is discussed in the manual page (man mc) and was mentioned in the
NEWS file for this release.

> For the typical use that I've described you'd want allso the
> mc/S which were open in a path, ready for use on 'that' project,
> even if no file was current being viewed, edited.

You can keep this kind of mc's in one screen session. Multi-screen patch
does not allow you to have more than one "panels" screen running in one
instance of mc (at this moment).

> What are the 'steps' to exercise your described feature?

man mc | grep "Screen selector"

> Are you refering to screen's ability to show multiple files or
> multiple copies of one file, on a single display, so you would not
> have multiple screens open with a single one visible?

Yes.

> Do you really think I'd overlook such a trivial improvement,
> if it was possible?
> All I'm able to do on this: FC1 > konqueror
>  is reset the default:
> I can't change the subject-field.

Damn it, hats off, man!!! 

>From which era your mail client is coming if it doesn't even have a
"Reply to all" button, not even speaking about the ability to change the
Subject: field which was present in Evolution since day zero?!

Maybe you'd better use mc / mcedit as your mailer, as, at least, it
allows you to specify the subject of the messages.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev