4 reimplement "-P" in a safer way (temp file instead of stdout) - possibly
7 Consider applying a patch from PLD to make M-o propagate the current
8 directory to the other panel.
10 Pressing F8 twice in the viewer causes error messages if the file was
11 preprocessed (i.e. gzipped files, manpages).
13 Add support for mouse wheel with gpm.
15 Recheck all mouse handlers, make sure that they check button number.
17 ncurses 5.2 turns off keypad under heavy load on xterm. Check if
18 anything can be done about it.
20 Implement --with-screen option.
22 Remove side effects from --with-termcap option.
24 ftp and fish with home != '/' - readjust directory to the home.
30 Load subshell prompt when it's ready.
32 Eliminate all pipes in subshell.c, run pwd after kill.
34 real_input_dialog_help() shouldn't use translated strings in the section
37 Make xnc.hlp a text file. Make it easier to translate the manual.
39 Hard links in cpio have 0 length (if easy to fix).
41 Add "Ignore" and "Ignore all" buttons when reporting permission
44 Better date parser - support files beginning with "2000 ".
46 Report errors in fish operations and recover from them.
48 SMB crash when not starting with the share root, but copying to the
51 Scan more packages for patches, check Red Hat and Ximian Bugzilla.
53 Allow colors to be defined in the mc.lib file. Make it possible to
54 avoid using a superlong line to redefine all colors.
56 Allow modifiers for keys in mc.lib, like "shift-up".
62 Consistent support for mc.lib.
64 Consistent support for per-terminal settings.
66 New syntax for mc.ext - path check, desktop environment check.
72 Internal terminal - no more console saving.
74 Implement a really Advanced Chown/Chmod.
76 Dynamic loading for libX11, libgpm.
78 Process all input internally, use screen libraries only for output.
81 ========================================================================
82 Everything below this point is the old TODO list. It doesn't reflect
83 the current priorities of the developers, but may contain interesting
84 ideas still waiting for their implementation.
85 ========================================================================
90 - "Files" message flickers a lot when copying files.
92 - Make the extfs handle re-reads.
94 - Document (or remove) C-x C-r, C-x C-s.
96 - Check that all the help contexts exist on the help file.
98 - Make the buttonbar for the tree box work.
100 - In the incremental search mode, when backspacing, select the
101 correct file, do not stop in current file.
103 - Make C-y yank back all the killed text at once if you've just done
104 several kill operations in a row (C-k, M-d, etc). [For MC 3.x]
106 - In learn keys, warn the user if he is trying to
107 i) define a same sequence as an already defined (if the keycode differs)
108 ii) define a sequence, which is a prefix of other longer and already
115 - Convert the source mc.1 to mc.sgml and create automagically from it
116 mc.1, mc.html, mc.hlp, mc.info, mc.tex, mc.txt etc. [3.x]
120 - Hotlist should allow people to edit the entry (like we do in the external
123 - Change ext.c to allow the %{..} to recursively expand any other %thingies.
125 - Write a general grow_string routine. This code is used in the internal
126 viewer and would also be used in the profile.c code.
128 - A command to set the line length to a fixed value for viewing
129 fixed length binary files. LIST does this with Ctrl-B and then
130 prompts for a "record" length.
132 - Viewer: have a case match toggle.
134 - Viewer: Mark all found matches, and when 'n' is pressed go to the
135 next page, not the next match on the same screen (when there is
138 - In ftpfs_open, extfs_open, if we set local_filename to tmpnam, use
139 a mechanism to set local_filename to another place on the local
140 diskspace (this would be useful for copying, so that we would save
141 some tmp space). This would require special care in file.c afterwards.
143 - In Listing mode... give at least three user-definable formats
144 (using Janne's Listing mode editor) and assign hot-keys to both
145 standard and user defined (what about c-x f [fbl123] ?).
147 - Shift-Home, Shift-End for the input line: home and end.
149 - Make a mechanism to lock all the mouse events and send them to
150 the locking widget until unlocking is done.
152 - Sort with numerical extensions.
154 - Allow the program to execute a command even when we are on a vfs, maybe
155 a special box, or make subshell code ignore the change directory
156 request. Perhaps each vfs should store a local path attached to it,
157 like in tarfs, extfs it would be the directory which contains the
158 topmost tararchive, in ftpfs it would be the directory which we entered
161 - auto_hint_lines: a variable that would choose to use hint mode when
162 at least auto_hint_lines are visible.
164 - Listbox: Mouse handler for the scrollbar: this will be hard with
165 the current approach (since the listbox scrollbar is drawn *outside*
166 the listbox control area).
168 - In file.c, we shouldn't need to get a full path name in order to
169 work, we should instead canon the file name inside the tar.c (the
170 only fs that relies on this), tar.c should know about the cwd (i
173 - Panelize the selected files.
175 - Recursive delete should (perhaps as an option) delete files just after
176 they have been copied and not to delay deleting until everything was
179 - When copying a tree (or moving or deleting), as an option act primarily
180 on the regular files and at the end on directories recursively, so that
181 we get complete high parts of the tree if something fails (useful for
184 - Put into a new and bigger Options/Configuration dialog all the options
185 we have now to set using .mc.ini manually. [3.x]
187 - When after deleting there are no files in a panelized panel, restore
188 it automagically to the real directory content. [3.x]
190 - Files/Symlink and Link should be able to do multiple links (if the
191 target is a directory). [3.x]
193 - Directory sizes should work in background using try_channels. [3.x]
195 - Support of non-UNIX ls in ftpfs. Perhaps using an ascii configuration
196 file similar to moxftp. [3.x]
198 - Have an option to let the user choose the preferred keybindings.
199 Currently, only the emacs keybindings are supported, add support
200 for Norton Commander and vi keybindings.
202 - Find command should have a way to specify directories to skip.
204 - Add an option that will let listboxes do incremental searches.
206 * Optimizations and cleanup
208 - "How to use help" section should be at the first page of the
209 "Contents" help section.
211 - Use RPCbind on SVR4, this currently will be left for 3.5
213 - Optimize the mcfs read and write code: make the code output 8k
214 blocks all the time (if we have called mc_hint_readall) and probe
215 the input for a possible cancel.
217 - When verbose is off, remove all the clutter on the screen about
218 the files being copied.
220 - The viewer is calling view_update in many places, I call
221 view_update after handling a key, should all the other
222 view_updates be removed?
224 - If the viewer is too slow, some caching could be done.
225 width and cols are currently computed each time they are needed.
227 - Add context sensitive help to the f9 menus.
229 - Add an overlap when going up or down in the file list.
231 ++ In the user menu, don't use the entries array, we can now grow
232 dynamically. I should take a look at this one day, it's easy to