File & Directory Hightlighting

[Keith Roberts]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Masiar, Peter wrote:

> To: "mc at gnome.org" <mc at gnome.org>
> From: "Masiar, Peter" <peter.masiar at yale.edu>
> Subject: RE: File & Directory Hightlighting
> 
> Not sure if I understand your question.
>
> IIUC, the problem you have is that after cherry-picking a 
> subset of (empty) directories, when you copy them, 
> selection is "lost" and you need to repeat the process (to 
> copy the same dirs to different destination), you need to 
> cherry-pick same dirs again. And you are afraid that 
> something can go wrong, you can miss some dirs and/or add 
> some wrong ones by mistake second time around. So you 
> would like the selection be "sticky" and not disappear 
> after the copy, ready to be used again and again.
>
> Is my understanding correct?

Yes, that's EXACTLY what I want to do. Seems silly to have 
to making the selection again. And I'd rather do it in mc if 
possible. After all that's what mc is for, to make Linux 
more user friendly. It also nice to have a visual indication 
of the files/directories you have selected to copy - which 
is not available from bash shell.

Keith

> Of course you can use cp command for copying, but 
> two-panel mc seems simpler (to me). Copy is a copy, 
> regardless if you use cp for it, or mc command.
>
> What I am missing?
>
> BTW sorry for not responding to mailing list first time around.
>
> -----
> Peter Masiar, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) http://www.yale.edu/ehs
> (203) 314-2719
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mc-bounces at gnome.org [mailto:mc-bounces at gnome.org] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:38 PM
> To: mc at gnome.org
> Subject: RE: File & Directory Hightlighting
>
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Masiar, Peter wrote:
>
>> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>
>> From: "Masiar, Peter" <peter.masiar at yale.edu>
>> Subject: RE: File & Directory Hightlighting
>>
>> What about copying the subset of directories to be processed into a staging area, then copying them from there to multiple destinations?
>> They are all empty, so staging area would take just a little space.
>> And no code changes are needed, it is just a usage pattern.
>>
>> -----
>> Peter Masiar, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) http://www.yale.edu/ehs
>> (203) 314-2719
>
> Can you do that with mc, or are you talking bash shell cp command ?
>
> Keith
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mc-bounces at gnome.org [mailto:mc-bounces at gnome.org] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:20 AM
>> To: mc at gnome.org
>> Subject: File & Directory Hightlighting
>>
>> I'm having to copy empty sub-directories to several
>> different directories at once.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have an option in mc, that would
>> allow one to keep the same set of files/directories
>> hightlighted after a copy has been done?
>>
>> So multiple copies could then be done, without having to
>> keep selecting and highlighting the same set of files each
>> time a new copy is done?
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Keith
>>
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