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Support and Feedback / Re: lay-out2
« on: October 30, 2013, 22:09:13 »
You need to reset the columns in all open tabs..
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1. There is no logging that are that detailed. Maybe the filesystem is updated all the time so MC is refreshing it self ?
- Nothing special: open folders and files, creating and closing tabs. Couldn't reproduce it. Is there some kind of log to know what happens?
- I use QSearch with popup box. But why are uppercase Russian letters so special? This problem exists in many programs . MC just doesn't want to understand that М=м.
Hello.
I continue using MC, I like it. Now I see 2 more problems:Thank you.
- Sometimes my cursor begins to change to "busy" state and back. It changes ~2 times per second and stops only after restart MC. It only changes when mouse is above MC window. It doesn't зкумуте MC to work correctly, but it's very annoying.
- When I want to focus some file in a forlder with a paticular name in russian, I type it letter by letter. When it's lowercase - all works OK. But when the first letter is uppercase, the search doesn't work. I have to press Shift+1st letter first, more above, I have to do it twice for some reason. E.g.: to search Мопед.xls I need to press Shift+М, +М, о, п... It seems to me that this is not the right way of action.
MC v 3.5.1.1530 64bit, Win7x64
I have come to realize that the "problem" here lies with the users. (Crash+Burn and me)
As it has been said MC uses Perl compatible regex I decided to refresh my understanding of that interpretation.
Where I am expecting the backslash to "escape" the next character from the action performed upon the search items, what it actual does is serve as a metacharacter along with other characters to perform specific actions. Thus the error message I quoted earlier is in fact 100% correct and should have told me my use of "\" was wrong.
So I fall back on my previous comment that a lot of problems may be averted in the future with the addition of some kind of "legend of expressions" that are used in MC.
In the same manner as the "flyout" menu associated with the Multi-Rename tool when the "<" icon is selected.
More examples of user expectations not matching actual experience.
Although it seems my original supposition above may be incorrect, I can't seem to match the "dot" of a file extension from a regular tab now either. It appears that MC's implementation doesn't have an option that allows for matching the whole filename as a single string - which you would think [Replace Name & Extension] would be.
I honestly don't know what you would use [Replace Name & Extension] for in its current form
given the following file:
everything.exe
Find: e
Replace: b
--> bvbrything.bxb
I would of expected [Replace Name & Extension] to allow access to the whole filename as a single string
thus permitting you to do something like:
everything.exe
Find: thing\.exe$
Replace: one.exe.bak
---> everyone.exe.bak
Now since you have to choose the matching type, of either [Name], [Extension] or [Name & Extension]
and since that choice affects all the Find/Replace fields, it's actually impossible to change filenames AND the extension.
Unless you want to match the same string in both the filename and it's extension... which seems unlikely.
1 Yes space key will toggle selection and calculate foldersize of item in focus. It is so you can move up and down with arrow key and press space and to select file and also get their size.
2. Commander styled setup is best if you working with keyboard only.. then you can walk the list with arrow keys and toggle selection of files using space or insert key.
Ctrl + Space ? never seen that combo before.. not sure you can get it using Explorer Styled setup
In Explorer Panel settings you can uncheck the options under "Selection Methods" But that will probably mess with with setup you want to have..
- I meant I cannot get the size of all selected folders by Space. That's not a big problem, actually, don't matter.
- Yes. Try in WinExplorer or any type of standard listview: when you toggle Ctrl, the multi-selection mode is activated, so if you press Space - the focused element will be toggled selected/unselected, if you press any arrow, another element will be focused and you can make it selected/unselected with space. It's common practice in most listviews. I like the tabbed style interface with some plugins, but total/Multi/Other commander file selection style isn't what I really want. That's why I choose Multicommander yet Is there some way to make it possible? Maybe some hotkeys use Ctrl+Up/Down?
Hi again.1 Yes space key will toggle selection and calculate foldersize of item in focus. It is so you can move up and down with arrow key and press space and to select file and also get their size.
I'll continue here, if nobody minds (if you do, please, feel free to split the message to a new topic).
I've tried to use some keyboard combos and actions, and noticed two strange things with SPACE button:Thank you.
- It is said that I can calculate the folder's size by Shift+Alt+Enter, and also with Space. When I press Space on single folder, all works OK. But when I want to do a trick with several selected folders, the result is given for a focused folder only. Is that OK?
- I tried to work with keyboard only, like I usually do in WinExplorer. I wanted to select several files/forlders coming not one after another. I pressed Ctrl and began to press Space and moving through the filelist with Up and Down keys. It fails. How can I change this behavior? Or what other manner I can use to get the selection I want? P.S. I use WinExplorer mouse/keyboard/selection style, so Insert won't help me.
1) allowing to set a min-max width on the "command line" or even the option to place it on the bottom -- which would also entail separating the Address-Bar icons from the Address-bar command line.Is that really needed since it will auto size it self if you place more icons after it.
2) Ability to reorganize the other bars (drag, move), remove/add commands, and/or change icons.The toolbar are a bit special, Because of the plugin/extension architecture and that they are created at runtime. There are some limits.
3) Align the functionality of the ButtonBar with the toolbar: Allow editing default commands.Not sure what you mean.. but all buttons in the button panel can be changed.
If the functionality of the ToolBar cannot be improved to match the flexibility of the ButtonBar - then consider:See QuickLauchbar.. Configure it to take an entire row.
1) Allowing the USER-Defined-Functions (ICON/Buttons) to be on their own line
OR if the "command-line" width can be limited, then at least the UDF's would have more space.
The few changes to the ButtonBar, that might improve it as noted by others: allow icons,* Icon support is coming.
* possibly allow individual buttons to be "split": customizable layout.
* multiple button-bars, left-right, or more than 1 that can be undocked.
"split": e.g.
[ Sample Button #1] [ Sample Button #2] [ Sample Button #3]
[ Split#4] [ Split #5] [ Sample Button #6] [ Sample Button #7]
Buggy Large Icons in the ToolBar, when using "tabbed view" when you choose larger icons, it affects the AddressBar and UDF's but the bar doesn't gain any height to allow proper display of the icons. And none of the other tabbed icons get resized, they are still 16x16.Yes the Tabbed toolbar is an old relic and should probably just be removed.
Also changing the ICON Size of the ToolBar could possibly be separated from choosing the icon-size of UDF's - especially if UDF's were allowed on their own line.
"\[.\]" then it matches "[A]" and if you replace that with B. then you get MyFileB.txt since it replaces the entire match. if you want to replace [<anything>] with [B] then put "[B] in "replace with"
I don't see how the engine should possible know that it only should replace the things between the tags.
@ MattiasAll the TipOfTheDay tips are stored in <mcinstall>\Config\TOTD\totd.xml
If tips was stored in an .ini file format, or xml/html, then help could be provided in bringing it up to date.
It might be better to split out the tips into individual files (if multiple people were involved), which could then be merged for distribution with the MC downloads.
Adequate documentation is usually where open-source projects fail too.