mc Digest, Vol 116, Issue 5

[Mike Smithson]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 04:00:03 -0800, <mc-request at gnome.org> wrote:


> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:05:48 +0000
> From: James Wonnacott <james at tregillis.eclipse.co.uk>
> To: mc at gnome.org
> Subject: Changed behaviour of clicking at the top.
> Message-ID: <52AF08BC.5020002 at tregillis.eclipse.co.uk>
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>
> Dear All,
>
> Sorry to raise this again but it's driving me nuts and I only got one
> reply last time which didn't help.
>
> #######################################################
> #Warning! if you don't think a mouse is an appropriate#
> #input device to use on mc please don't read any more.#
> #I use a mouse a lot in mc and I like it!             #
> #######################################################
>
> I've been using mc for many years and I love it- thanks!
>
> I've recently installed version 4.8.3 on a few Debian servers I've built
> and found that I can no longer click at the top of a panel to move up-
> it now reverses the sort order instead.
> Now, I really would like to get the old behaviour back- is this
> possible? please!
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
>

It's true. I don't use the mouse much, tend to be a keyboard hotkey
kind of guy. But your question got me playing with mc & mouse. The
mouse support seems to be highly improved over the last time (years
ago) that I fiddled with mouse support.

If you want to change it, the relevant code is in
src/filemanager/panel.c, around line 3645:

[code]
     /* sort on clicked column; don't handle wheel events */
     if (mouse_down && (local.buttons & (GPM_B_UP | GPM_B_DOWN)) == 0 &&  
local.y == 2)
     {
         mouse_sort_col (panel, local.x);
         goto finish;
     }

     /* Mouse wheel events */
     if (mouse_down && (local.buttons & GPM_B_UP) != 0)
     {
         if (is_active)
         {
             if (panels_options.mouse_move_pages && (panel->top_file > 0))
                 prev_page (panel);
             else                /* We are in first page */
                 move_up (panel);
         }
         goto finish;
     }
[/code]

Frankly, I like the sort/reverse sort feature. I didn't even know I
could do that. Very handy. Thank you for drawing it to my attention.


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