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Support and Feedback / MC commands (on the fly) from command line?

« on: January 20, 2015, 14:48:10 »

I understand it's possible to do MC commands from within MC, I also understand it's possible to prefigure such commands and then run them from the command line (both variants not tested).

What I am interested in, though, is sending MC commands from the command line = from the Windows "run" command window, not in any prefigured way, but as is needed in the particular situation.

I tried (always from that Windows "run" dialog):

MC.Explorer.SetViewFilter FILTER="a*.*"

> "not found"

C:\Programs\MultiCommander\MultiCommander.exe MC.Explorer.SetViewFilter FILTER="a*.*"

> displays MC but does not execute the filter command (which is assumed to work upon the list pane which currently has focus)

Do I need to do something similar to this, in some slightly different syntax, or is it not possible to execute MC commands if their precise "content" has not been prefigured before?

And in case that latest, negative answer to my question applies:

What would be the keyboard shortcut for selecting the current file pane's filter field, and/or how to change that shortcut to something of your choice? (I found the keyboard configuration, but I didn't find a "focus filter field of current pane" command there.) (The shortcut shift-control-f does not put focus into that field, but opens an (unwanted) menu.)

Thank you so much for your help!

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Support and Feedback / List entry formatting does not go back to regular

« on: January 20, 2015, 13:17:18 »

Hello,
I just discovered MC, and I found several traits of it very appealing, even though my very first action was to hide the multi-buttons, and the fact that now it's free, just adds to my very positive impression overall, even though I think it should go "paid" again, since only this ensures active development. Some not-so-good file managers are sold at 40 dollars, which certainly is not necessary, but 20 dollars for a decent file manager should be considered perfectly acceptable to everybody. This being said:

I have got two questions, one minor and one major. My much less important question being, is it possible to change the fonts (regular font, not bolding, color, etc.) for the lists in the list windows? If so, how to do that? I tried really hard to find such a setting, but in vain.

Now my question which is much more important to me: I always display system and "hidden" files/folders, and I use the system/hidden attributes for displaying any particular files/folders in bold (hidden), and in bold and colored colored (system).

Now this works fine, but when then, afterwards, I de-"system" or de-hide such a file or folder, the list display does not revert to regular (from bolded or from bolded-and-colored), but stays bolded or bolded-and-colored, not indefinitely, but for a long time, so these display toggles do not work correctly?

The same is true if I display another folder in that same list pane, then go back to the previous folder there: The bolding or bolding-and-coloring will have not disappeared. Also, my switching the setting Configuration-Explorer panel settings-Display to "Tweaking (Advanced, changing is not recommended) Always rescan folders (...)" to YES (= "checked") does NOT change anything to the above-described problem.

I tried with custom coloring (the above settings and tab "Colors there", then "Rule based coloring of files and folders"), and also with the default state (Windows coloring/bolding), and this didn't make any difference.

Is this a bug, and if so, do we have to live with that, or did I overlook some setting I should switch on or off, in order to make file/folder name display revert immediately to default state (black and regular, instead of bolded and/or colored), whenever the system and/or "hidden" attributes are reverted to "no"?

Thank you very much for your interest in this matter!