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Void:
Okay, i'm finally caving in and asking: i just can't figure out how the display settings work in MC. I've tried and tried, spent many many minutes across many instalations in the last months, but I just can't figure it out and with every install I do eventually find a solution that sort-of works, but always only after a lot of frustration, so I have to ask! Basically all i want to do is see just the filename+extension, in multi column, and without any visual clutter like date/size and attrib. I seem to remember in some past times I got this solved by removing (via right click) columns... or no, i think that didn't work, and then I went into customize columns... but then there were always problems such as say only seeing "JP"out of a "JPG"extension or such things.

Also I always kept making changes and used them only to find out that after a restart I lost them. Or today for example I had somehow managed to make them and then found out that when creating a new tab suddenly they were all lost and then I had to recreate them... and now that I did recreate them I can't see the multi column view (which btw was such a FANTASTIC surprise)... so, I'm throwing in the towel: pleeeease, somebody tell me how to do this right once and for all :P I would very much appreciate your help. I've been struggling with this one a lot and didn't wanna ask if I could fix it myself, but I just can't seem to get to the bottom of it. I want that always and at all times to see only name.ext columns of files (eg. not just a long list as I'm seeing now... i know the feature is somewhere in there because if I manually drag a column width for a few seconds I can see multiple columns beautifully form... now if only there was a way to at some point just release the mouse and for it to stay that way, with that configured width... oh, how wonderful it would be!)

Thank you very much in advance for your help, and big thanks to the MC creators for providing us with such a great program!

PS: to clarify, where I'm currenntly stuck is I have managed to create a single column "name" which includes the extension, and I am in List mode, but I can't seem to be able to make multi columns stay longer than when I'm holding down the mouse dragging the bar at the top right of the file viewer, and as soon as I let go they go back to just one column

Jungle:
1. If you want multiple file columns view, switch to List View mode. But it is lost after exit.
2. If you want different set of columns, you should 'Customize columns...' (in column popup menu), then 'Set current layout as default'

Void:
Yes, I don't want it just temporarily, but as a constant permanent setting. I have edited in customize columns all the combinations I could think of but I have not yet been able to find one which allows me to see the multiple columns.

Mathias (Author):
I Assume you are talking about running the tab in LIST mode.
Changing view mode to List Mode should be saved between restarts. However when creating a new tabs it will be in detail mode.
And if you create tab at startup from script or command line it will not remember the view mode settings since you are creating NEW tabs, Not restoring old.  since the view mode settings is unique to the opened tabs.

Columns have very little use in LIST mode. Only the first column is used to size. (and all column will be shown with that size.)
the other columns are only used for sorting. So adding/removing column when in List Mode will have no effect.

Not sure what your problem is. I'm not able to recreate it, or I'm not understanding your problem correct.
I can switch a tab to List Mode and then exit , and start MC again and that tab is now still in list mode.

Jungle:

--- Quote from: Mathias (Author) on November 12, 2012, 12:59:41 ---Changing view mode to List Mode should be saved between restarts.
--- End quote ---
AFAIR, list mode remained after restart. But now it is not saved.

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