MC & F4

Forum: Apps
Topic: MC & F4
started by: Mango

Posted by Mango on May 30 2005,11:36

Hi.
I have a problem with Midnight Commander & F4 (Edit)
When I try to edit a file with Midnight Commander
the bottom row (the functionbutton menu) disappears
I can't exit normally by pressing F3 or F10 I have to shut the
whole shellwindow down and whatever was edited won't be saved.
Is this a known bug?
Is there a way of fixing this?
Of course I could use elemfm to edit files but I'm
quite used to Norton Commander/Midnight Commander.

Posted by mikshaw on May 30 2005,16:03

did you try using ":q" to get back to the regular mc screen? If this works then the editor (vim) is apparently starting but not displaying anything.
I've never seen this...editing with F4 in mc seems to work fine.

Posted by cbagger01 on May 30 2005,18:10

FYI,

If you want to use nano instead of vi for your mc "Edit" command, check this thread out:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....nd+nano >