Start mc with every new shell

Start mc with every new shell

[chesss]

The only bit of of midnight-commander I really like is the ability to  
quickly press ctrl+o and get a nice scrollable listing of files, and the n  
press ctrl+o again to get back to zsh.

So how to start mc with every interactive shell, that too in 'minimized'  
mode?
I tried:
1. adding mc to .zshrc, but it hangs the chell . adding mc to .bashrc  
works.
2. looking for a macro app. So that I can send a series of keyboard  
strokes to start a new zsh shell, start mc and press ctrl+o. AFAIK, the  
concept of keyboard macros outside vi/emacs is pretty much unknown in unix  
world, so I'll explain: press a keystroke to send a 'series of  
keystrokes/hotkeys'.
Any such app for unix? I am not talking about macros in zsh, but in X(the  
whole PC)

 From mc's man page >>
			
			C-o    when the program is being run in the Linux or FreeBSD console or  
under an xterm, it
               will show you the output of the previous command.  When ran  
on the  Linux  console,
               the  Midnight  Commander uses an external program  
(cons.saver) to handle saving and
               restoring of information on the screen.



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Re: Start mc with every new shell

[Peter Stephenson]

chesss <testingagain@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried:
> 1. adding mc to .zshrc, but it hangs the chell . adding mc to .bashrc  
> works.

Have you tried something like:

  if [[ -z $ZSH_IN_MC ]]; then
    export ZSH_IN_MC=1
    mc
  fi

which works for me (as far as I can see, anyway, I'm not an expert on mc)?
bash may have some automatic method of detection.

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Re: Start mc with every new shell

[Nikolai Weibull]

On 11/9/06, chesss <testingagain@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only bit of of midnight-commander I really like is the ability to
> quickly press ctrl+o and get a nice scrollable listing of files, and the n
> press ctrl+o again to get back to zsh.

Have you given screen(1) [1] a try?  It lets you multiplex one
terminal between many different applications so that you can have mc
in one "window" and a shell in another, completely independent of each
other.  It's not what you're asking about, but it may be what you'll
actually want in the end.

  nikolai

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

Re: Start mc with every new shell

[chesss]

>if [[ -z $ZSH_IN_MC ]]; then
 > export ZSH_IN_MC=1
 > mc
> fi

Works great! thanks. This requires an extra ctrl+o later, but thats
not much of a bother..

> It lets you multiplex one terminal between many different >applications so that you can have mc in one "window" and a shell in >another, completely independent of each other.

THe thing that I really want was a quick list of files/folders of the
current directory, without having to a.lose the prompt b.type
something>shift+pageup to see past text c.I hate 'ls'
mc gives a solution, since it syncs with pwd when in 'ctrl+o' mode !!
So I can just go about my business in zsh, then perss ctrl+o to see
the files, and ctrl+o back again to zsh!

Here's what I had in mind (initially):

http://h1.ripway.com/chesss/dirlist.png

Re: Start mc with every new shell

[Tobias Gruetzmacher]

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Hi,

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:32:30PM +0530, chesss wrote:
> THe thing that I really want was a quick list of files/folders of the
> current directory, without having to a.lose the prompt b.type
> something>shift+pageup to see past text c.I hate 'ls'

Maybe you want to try viewglob? It may just be what you want, or maybe
not ;)

Greetings, Tobi

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Re: Start mc with every new shell

[chesss]

> Maybe you want to try viewglob? It may just be what you want, or maybe
> not ;)
>
> Greetings, Tobi

When I switched to linux I knew it would take some time to discover
lil jem apps like I had in windows.Those apps that are just sooo
useful, yet only a small minority uses them. This is surely one of
them :)
Thanks tobi - viewglob is great and like all those nifty 'must-haves'
it should be pre-installed everywhere!


me is using this: to start viewglob with every shell btw:
    300 if [ -z "$VG_VIEWGLOB_ACTIVE" ] && [ "$DISPLAY" ]
    301     then exec vgseer -c zsh
    302 fi

Re: Start mc with every new shell

[chesss]

Screw me! don't use the above command to start viewglob.
start with:

if [ -z "$VG_VIEWGLOB_ACTIVE" ] && [ "$DISPLAY" ]
then exec viewglob -c zsh
fi

There is a certain delay with this, but I coudln't care less, so I
didn't look  for a solution.

On 11/11/06, chesss <testingagain@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe you want to try viewglob? It may just be what you want, or maybe
> > not ;)
> >
> > Greetings, Tobi
>
> When I switched to linux I knew it would take some time to discover
> lil jem apps like I had in windows.Those apps that are just sooo
> useful, yet only a small minority uses them. This is surely one of
> them :)
> Thanks tobi - viewglob is great and like all those nifty 'must-haves'
> it should be pre-installed everywhere!
>
>
> me is using this: to start viewglob with every shell btw:
>     300 if [ -z "$VG_VIEWGLOB_ACTIVE" ] && [ "$DISPLAY" ]
>     301     then exec vgseer -c zsh
>     302 fi
>