mc Digest, Vol 116, Issue 6

[chris glur]

continual user requested changes can lead to disaster
Designed by a committee ?!


On 12/19/13, mc-request at gnome.org <mc-request at gnome.org> wrote:
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>    1. disk usage status in right bottom corner (Konrad Vrba)
>    2. Re: mc Digest, Vol 116, Issue 5 (Mike Smithson)
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> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:02:38 +0100
> From: Konrad Vrba <konrad.vrba at gmail.com>
> To: mc at gnome.org
> Subject: disk usage status in right bottom corner
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> hello,
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> I would like to ask whether it is possible to change the disk status/usage
> information, which is displayed in the botom right corner in midnight
> commander (sorry if I am not using the correct terminology).
>
> The information displayed in my MC is free/total free%
>
> I would prefer to have % of used space, rather than % of free space. It
> might seem trivial, but I canot get used to the idea and it still confuses
> me. It seems to me logical to see what *is*on my disk, rather than what *is
> not*.
>
> Is there some way to adjust this, so that I can for example see just the
> %usage ?
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> thanks,
> Konrad
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> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:48:14 -0800
> From: "Mike Smithson" <mdooligan at gmail.com>
> To: mc at gnome.org
> Subject: Re: mc Digest, Vol 116, Issue 5
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> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 04:00:03 -0800, <mc-request at gnome.org> wrote:
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>> 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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