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<sect1>Options Menu<label id="Options Menu">
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+<p>
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+The Midnight Commander has some options that may be toggled on and
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+off in several dialogs which are accessible from this menue. Options
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+are enabled if they have an asterisk or "x" in front of them.
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<p>
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The <lnk name="Configuration" id="Configuration"> command pops up a dialog from which you
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@@ -1211,16 +1215,8 @@ settings is saved, too.
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<sect2>Configuration<label id="Configuration">
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<p>
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-The program has some options that may be toggled on and
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-off from the Configuration dialog. Options are enabled if
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-they have an asterisk or "x" in front of them. These
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-options are divided into three groups: Screen Colors,
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-Panel Options and Other Options.
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-
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-<bf/Screen Colors/ You can select whether your display supports color or not.
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-Normally this information is in the terminfo database. If
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-you want to know how to change individual colors see the
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-section on <lnk name="Colors" id="Colors">.
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+The options in this dialog are divided into three groups: Panel Options
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+Pause after run and Other Options.
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<bf/Panel Options/
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@@ -1233,9 +1229,11 @@ show all files that start with a dot (like <tt/ls -a/).
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<tag/Mark moves down/ By default when you mark a file (with
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either <tt/C-t/ or the Insert key) the selection bar will move
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down.
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-<tag/Show Mini-Status/ If enabled, show one line of status
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-information at the bottom of the panels about the
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-currently selected item.
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+<tag/Drop down menues/ When this option is enabled, when you press the <tt/F9/
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+key, the pull down menus will be activated, else, you will
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+only be presented with the menu title, and you will have
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+to select the entry with the arrow keys or the first
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+letter and from there select your option in the menu.
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<tag/Mix all files/ When this option is enabled, all files and
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directories are shown mixed together. If the option is
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off, directories (and links to directories) are shown at
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@@ -1253,16 +1251,9 @@ option on, you have to rescan the directory manually (with
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<tt/C-r/).
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</descrip>
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-<bf/Other Options/
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-
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+<bf/Pause after run/
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<descrip>
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-<tag/Verbose operation/ This toggles whether the file Copy,
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-Rename and Delete operations are verbose (i.e. display a
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-dialog box for each operation). If you have a slow
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-terminal, you may wish to disable the verbose operation.
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-It is automatically turned off if the speed of your
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-terminal is less than 9600 bps.
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-<tag/Pause after run/ After executing your commands, the
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+After executing your commands, the
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Midnight Commander can pause, so that you can examine the
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output of the command. There are three possible settings
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for this variable: <em/Never/ Means that you do not want to see
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@@ -1274,6 +1265,24 @@ showing the output of the last command executed (any
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terminal that is not an <bf/xterm/ or the Linux console).
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<em/Always/ The program will pause after executing all of your
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commands.
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+</descrip>
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+
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+<bf/Other Options/
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+
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+<descrip>
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+
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+<tag/Verbose operation/ This toggles whether the file Copy,
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+Rename and Delete operations are verbose (i.e. display a
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+dialog box for each operation). If you have a slow
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+terminal, you may wish to disable the verbose operation.
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+It is automatically turned off if the speed of your
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+terminal is less than 9600 bps.
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+<tag/Compute totals/ If this option is enabled, the Midnight
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+Commander computes total byte sizes and total number of files
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+prior to any Copy, Rename and Delete operations. This will
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+provide you with a more accurate progress bar at the expense
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+of some speed. This option has no effect, if <em/Verbose operation/
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+is disabled.
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<tag/Shell Patterns/ By default the Select, Unselect and Filter
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commands will use shell-like regular expressions. The
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following conversions are performed to achieve this: the
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@@ -1299,9 +1308,24 @@ is disabled, the pager specified in the <tt/PAGER/ environment
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variable is used. If no pager is specified, the <bf/view/
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command is used. See the section on the <lnk name="internal file
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viewer" id="Internal File Viewer">.
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-<tag/Confirm Delete/ This option is toggled on by default, and
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-will cause the Midnight Commander to ask for confirmation
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-when deleting a single file.
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+<tag/Complete: show all/ By default the Midnight Commander
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+pops up all possible <lnk name="completions" id="Completion"> if the completion is
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+ambiguous if you press <tt/M-Tab/ for the second time, for the
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+first time it just completes as much as possible and in
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+the case of ambiguity beeps. If you want to see all the
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+possible completions already after the first <tt/M-Tab/
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+pressing, enable this option.
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+<tag/Rotating dash/ If this option is enabled, the
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+Midnight Commander shows a rotating dash in the upper right corner
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+as a work in progress indicator.
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+<tag/Lynx-like motion/ If this option is enabled,
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+you may use the arrows keys to automatically chdir if the
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+current selection is a subdirectory and the shell command
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+line is empty. By default, this setting is off.
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+<tag/Advanced chown/ If this option is enabled, the
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+<lnk name="Advanced Chown" id="Advanced Chown">
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+command will be invoked if you run the
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+<lnk name="Chmod" id="Chmod"> or <lnk name="Chown" id="Chown"> command.
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<tag/Cd follows links/ This option, if set, causes the Midnight
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Commander to follow the logical chain of directories when
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changing current directory either in the panels, or using
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@@ -1311,6 +1335,12 @@ directory structure, so <tt/cd ../ if you've entered that
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directory through a link will move you to the current
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directory's real parent and not to the directory where the
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link was present.
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+<tag/Safe delete/ If this option is enabled, deleting files
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+unintentionally will get more difficult. The default
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+selection in the confirmation dialog changes from the "Yes"
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+to the "No" button and deletion of non empty direcories has to be
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+confirmed by entering the word <em/yes/. By default this
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+option is disabled.
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</descrip>
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<sect2>Display bits<label id="Display bits">
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@@ -1437,6 +1467,10 @@ panels. You can specify whether the area is split to the
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panels in vertical or horizontal direction. The split can
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be equal or you can specify an unequal split.
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+If the <em/Show Mini-Status/ option is enabled, one line of status
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+information about the currently selected item is showed at the bottom
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+of the panels.
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<sect2>Save Setup<label id="Save Setup">
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<p>
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@@ -1691,6 +1725,15 @@ selected files
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The Chown command is used to change the owner/group of a
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file. The hot key for this command is <tt/C-x o/.
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+<sect>Advanced Chown<label id="Advanced Chown">
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+
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+<p>
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+The Advanced Chown command is the <lnk name="Chmod" id="Chmod">
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+and <lnk name="Chown" id="Chown"> command combined into one
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+window. You can change the permissions and owner/group of
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+files at once.
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<sect>File Operations<label id="File Operations">
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<p>
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on all input lines, command completion is command line
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specific. If the completion is ambiguous (there are more
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different possibilities), MC beeps and the following
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-action depends on the setting of the <em/show_all_if_ambiguous/
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-<lnk name="variable" id="Special Settings">
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-in the Initialization file. If it is nonzero, a
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+action depends on the setting of the <em/Complete: show all/
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+option in the <lnk name="Configuration" id="Configuration">
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+dialog. If it is enabled, a
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list of all possibilities pops up next to the current
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position and you can select with the arrow keys and <tt/Enter/
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the correct entry. You can also type the first letters in
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@@ -2065,8 +2108,9 @@ listbox, otherwise the first item which matches all the
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previous characters will be highlighted. As soon as there
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is no ambiguity, dialog disappears, but you can hide it by
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canceling keys <tt/Esc,/ <tt/F10/ and left and right arrow keys. If
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-<em/show_all_if_ambiguous/
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-<lnk name="variable" id="Special Settings"> is set to zero, the dialog pops up
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+<em/Complete: show all/
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+<lnk name="Configuration" id="Configuration"> is disabled,
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+the dialog pops up
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only if you press <tt/M-Tab/ for the second time, for the first
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time MC just beeps.
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@@ -2390,12 +2434,6 @@ of the field clear_before_exec to 0.
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MC enters that directory. If this flag is set to 1, then
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MC will ask for confirmation before changing the directory
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if you have files tagged.
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-<tag/drop_menus/ If this variable is set, when you press the <tt/F9/
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-key, the pull down menus will be activated, else, you will
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-only be presented with the menu title, and you will have
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-to select the entry with the arrow keys or the first
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-letter and from there select your option in the menu.
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-
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<tag/ftpfs_retry_seconds/
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This value is the number of seconds the Midnight Commander will wait
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before attempting a reconnection to an ftp server that has denied the
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@@ -2421,12 +2459,6 @@ mouse is done by pages or line by line on the panels.
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<tag/mouse_move_pages_viewer/ Controls if scrolling with the
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mouse is done by pages or line by line on the internal
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file viewer.
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-<tag/navigate_with_arrows/ If this setting is turned on, then
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-you may use the arrows keys to automatically chdir if the
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-current selection is a subdirectory and the shell command
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-line is empty. By default, this setting is off.
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-<tag/nice_rotating_dash/ When on, this flag causes the commander
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-to show a rotating dash as a work in progress indicator.
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<tag/old_esc_mode/ By default the Midnight Commander treats the
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<tt/ESC/ key as a key prefix (old_esc_mode=0), if you set this
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option (old_esc_mode=1), then the <tt/ESC/ key will act as a
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When you use the C-o keystroke to go back to the user screen, if this
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one is set, you will get a fresh shell. Otherwise, pressing any key
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will bring you back to the Midnight Commander.
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-<tag/show_all_if_ambiguous/ By default the Midnight Commander
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-pops up all possible <lnk name="completions" id="Completion"> if the completion is
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-ambiguous if you press <tt/M-Tab/ for the second time, for the
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-first time it just completes as much as possible and in
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-the case of ambiguity beeps. If you want to see all the
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-possible completions already after the first <tt/M-Tab/
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-pressing, set this option to 1.
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<tag/torben_fj_mode/ If this flag is set, then the home and end
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keys will work slightly different on the panels, instead
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of moving the selection to the first and last files in the
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Norbert Warmuth