Computation Austringer on 07 Jun 2008 12:06 pm
Mac OS X and Midnight Commander: The Missing “Insert” Key
I do a lot of work at a Unix command line interface on the MacBook Pro. One of the very handy things I use pretty much all the time is the GNU Midnight Commander (mc) application. This is a text-mode file manager interface that sets up two panels that can show two different directories, and provides most of the file operations one needs to get things done.
One thing that I’ve missed for some time is an “Insert” key, which I have under Windows, FreeBSD, or Linux, but the MacBook keyboard doesn’t have one. In mc, “Insert” tags individual entries for group operations. I had done some Googling before without success, but this morning hit paydirt: <ctrl>-T will tag an individual entry in mc. That made cleaning up after some of the automated processes I’ve been running much more pleasant.
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on 08 Aug 2008 at 8:50 am 1.Miro said …
Thanks, MUCH appreciated ;-)
on 11 Aug 2008 at 6:21 pm 2.Gregory said …
Wow, today is my day - I was googling for Insert key last 2 years since I moved to Mac everywhere on my work and home…. Thank you very much!
on 02 Sep 2008 at 10:48 am 3.Johnsmarco said …
Man, I have been looking sooo much for this thing!
This is one of the missing pieces to make OS X and Macbook Pro perfect. ;-)
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks! ;-)
on 17 Sep 2008 at 12:48 pm 4.MrZammler said …
Many thanks man!!
on 17 Sep 2008 at 5:12 pm 5.asv2001 said …
Thanks a lot!
on 06 Nov 2008 at 5:20 am 6.smokey said …
Many thanks man. This missing key was nagging at me quite a while…..;-)
on 12 Dec 2008 at 3:31 am 7.tg said …
Wow! Thanks a million! I was searching for this for long time. :-)
on 20 Dec 2008 at 2:40 pm 8.Moszi said …
Thanks :) . That helped a lot :)
i’ve just moved to a mac a couple of months ago, and that was really a missing key :) …
on 02 Jan 2009 at 3:02 pm 9.petr0vich said …
thanks alot dude