Midnight Commander (mc)

By | 21 Jun 2009

Open drop-down box

To open a drop-down box (like those on the FTP link… dialog), press Alt+H.

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The later versions of unzip have a slightly different output format but the uzip-module still expects the old one. To fix this, edit the file /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip (as root) and change the line

# Set this to 1 if zipinfo (unzip -Z) is to be used (recommended), otherwise 0.
my $op_has_zipinfo = 0;

to

# Set this to 1 if zipinfo (unzip -Z) is to be used (recommended), otherwise 0.
my $op_has_zipinfo = 1;

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Download the above files to ~/.mc/cedit and add the following definitions (as needed) to ~/.mc/cedit/Syntax. If you don’t have this file, copy it from /usr/share/mc/syntax/ first.

file ..\*\\.ahk$ AutoHotkey\sFile
include autohotkey.syntax

file ..\*\\.(tpl|TPL)$ eZPublish\sTemplate
include eztemplate.syntax

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