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Proper column sizing in List view
Mathias (Author):
--- Quote from: ags on November 04, 2024, 17:52:19 ---I am not sure we are on the right track here... :D
The fact is that if MC wants to show long file names, it has to read the list of files, find the longest and adapt the column width to fit as many characters as possible.
Can you make this an automated process, like in the other file managers?
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If you dubble click on header splitter between column it will auto size it. There is was full automatic before, But it was removed. Too messy when going in and out of folder and columns was resizing all the time automatically.
ags:
So every time I enter a directory where I want to see long names I have to resize the Name column by double clicking the splitter?
Mathias (Author):
--- Quote from: ags on November 05, 2024, 14:33:32 ---So every time I enter a directory where I want to see long names I have to resize the Name column by double clicking the splitter?
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If they are so long that they do not normally fit in the view.. you can also temporary switch to 100/0 view to use full with or go Top/Bottom splitting instead of left/right
Constant autosize the column every time you navigated in and out of folder made people kind of dizzy. specially if you navigate using keyboard and go fast in and out. So it was disabled.
Jungle:
What about optional wordwrap, multiline ?
ags:
I don't know about displaying the files on multiple lines. Wouldn't this create a very busy list, difficult to read, when the names of the files are of different lengths? Some of them would wrap on 2-3 lines, and some of them would remain one line?
Different workarounds can be found. But the fact remains: MC does not know how to handle files with long names. And in a world full of files with long names, this is a big problem, a bug. I am petitioning here for the fixing of this bug.
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