[mc] How to configure keyboard shortcuts
Martin Mísař
misar at ath.cz
Mon Feb 2 06:55:54 UTC 2026
Hi,
I am using ctrl-space on the top "/.." and mc then calculates all folders at once...
Martin
On 1/31/26 00:56, mi via mc wrote:
> Yury,
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>> I’m afraid you have to figure out your symlinks issues on your own. I can’t see any problem with what mc is doing here.
> ok outfigured :D
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> It appears that many years ago, for some reason, i wanted mc to run in a kind of 'kiosk' mode and thus, i've set MC_PROFILE_ROOT in my login profile to a location in my tmpfs cache ... and after some time, i forgot :|
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> Now that explains why neither keymap nor filegihlight would take effect, as i put these files into the standard .config location and never noticed that they won't be in the kiosk location !
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> May i add another keyboard question here, now that i discovered ctrl-space, is there a to have mc do the size calculations for the folders in the active pane, all at once ?
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> Because that could be very handy, if comparing a folder list with the same in the backup tree, i could see on once glance whether there is a difference w/o needing to do a diff.
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> ps. And sorry for the last mail directly to you, i must have hit the wrong reply button ... 🙏️
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