mcedit keymap

To define a macro, press Ctrl-R and then type out the key strokes you want to be executed. Press Ctrl-R again when finished. You can then assign the macro to any key you like by pressing that key. The macro is executed when you press Ctrl-A and then the assigned key. The macro is also executed if you press Meta, Ctrl, or Esc and the assigned key, provided that the key is not used for any other function. Once defined, the macro commands go into the file .mc/cedit/cooledit.macros in your home directory. You can delete a macro by deleting the appropriate line in this file.

F-keys Ctrl Alt Shift

• F1 hypertext help (it's primitive as hell, they do not reuse mc help format for some reason, but important to try)

• F2 to save. Shift-F2 to save under a new name

• F7 search

• F9 user menu (menu is not shown in default mode; important to try)

• F10 to quit.

• F11 user menu (important to try and to learn how to use)

  The editor has top menu which is normally hidden but can be made visible by pressing F9 key. It provides interesting capabilities, including the ability to insert the content of the file under cursor.

Ctrl

CTRL + O -- Shows command line window/Restore editor
Ctrl-U -- undo

Alt

Shift

• Shift-F2 to save under a new name
• Shift-F9 (aka F19) will format the currently highlighted block (plain text or C or C++ code or another). This is controlled by the file /usr/share/mc/edit.indent.rc which is copied to .mc/cedit/edit.indent.rc in your home directory the first time you use it.

The  internal  file  editor  is a full-featured full screen editor.  It can edit files up to 64 megabytes.  It is
      possible to edit binary files.  The internal file editor is invoked using F4 if the use_internal_edit  option  is
      set in the initialization file.
 
      The  features it presently supports are: block copy, move, delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; pull-down menus;
      file insertion; macro commands; regular expression search and  replace  (and  our  own  scanf-printf  search  and
      replace);  shift-arrow  text  highlighting  (if  supported  by the terminal); insert-overwrite toggle; word wrap;
      autoindent; tunable tab size; syntax highlighting for various file types; and  an  option  to  pipe  text  blocks
      through shell commands like indent and ispell.
 
      The  editor  is very easy to use and requires no tutoring. To see what keys do what, just consult the appropriate
      pull-down menu. Other keys are:  Shift  movement  keys  do  text  highlighting.   Ctrl-Ins  copies  to  the  file
      cooledit.clip  and  Shift-Ins  pastes  from cooledit.clip.  Shift-Del cuts to cooledit.clip, and Ctrl-Del deletes
      highlighted text. Mouse highlighting also works, and you can override the mouse as  usual  by  holding  down  the
      shift key while dragging the mouse to let normal terminal mouse highlighting work.
 
     
 
      
 
      You can use scanf search and replace to search and replace a C format string. First take a look at the sscanf and
      sprintf man pages to see what a format string is and how it works.  Consider following example.  Suppose you want
      to replace all occurrences of an open bracket, three comma separated numbers, and a close bracket, with the  word
      apples,  the  third  number, the word oranges and then the second number.  Then fill in the Replace dialog box as
      follows:
 
       Enter search string:
        (%d,%d,%d)
       Enter replacement string:
        apples %d oranges %d
       Enter replacement argument order:
        3,2
 
      The last line specifies that the third and then the second number are to be used in place of the first  and  sec-
      ond.
 
      It  is  advisable  to use this feature with Prompt on replace on, because a match is thought to be found whenever
      the number of arguments found matches the number given, which is not always  a  real  match.  Scanf  also  treats
      whitespace  as being elastic.  Note that the scanf format %[ is very useful for scanning strings, and whitespace.
 
      The editor also displays non-us characters (160+). When editing binary files, you should set display  bits  to  7
      bits in the options menu to keep the spacing clean.

Completion

      Let the Midnight Commander type for you.
 
      Attempt  to  perform completion on the text before current position.  MC attempts completion treating the text as
      variable (if the text begins with $), username (if the text begins with ~), hostname (if the text begins with  @)
      or  command  (if you are on the command line in the position where you might type a command, possible completions
      then include shell reserved words and shell built-in commands as well) in turn.  If none of these matches,  file-
      name completion is attempted.
 
      Filename, username, variable and hostname completion works on all input lines, command completion is command line
      specific.  If the completion is ambiguous (there are more different possibilities), MC beeps  and  the  following
      action  depends on the setting of the Complete: show all option in the Configuration dialog.  If it is enabled, a
      list of all possibilities pops up next to the current position and you can select with the arrow keys  and  Enter
      the  correct entry.  You can also type the first letters in which the possibilities differ to move to a subset of
      all possibilities and complete as much as possible.  If you press M-Tab again, only the subset will be  shown  in
      the  listbox, otherwise the first item which matches all the previous characters will be highlighted.  As soon as
      there is no ambiguity, dialog disappears, but you can hide it by canceling keys Esc, F10 and left and right arrow
      keys.  If Complete: show all is disabled, the dialog pops up only if you press M-Tab for the second time, for the
      first time MC just beeps.

NEWS CONTENTS

• 210210 : cooledit-3.17.17 man page ( softpanorama.org, )
• 210210 : doc-editor-actions – Midnight Commander ( doc-editor-actions – Midnight Commander, )

Old News ;-)

cooledit-3.17.17 man page

DEFAULT KEY DEFINITIONS
Keys may be redefined using an easy to use key learner. See the next
section on how to get this to work.

The following is a partial list of all default key bindings and their
actions, for reference. You will probably never need to refer to it
because most of the editor actions can be found in the menus. Note
that F14 is analogous to Shift-F4 etc. Also be aware that on some
machines, what X percieves as an Alt/Meta is actually some other
modifier key (our Sun-Sparc uses the diamond key).
Movement keys:
Left left one char
Right right one char
Up up one line
Down down one line
Home beginning of line
End end of line
PgUp up one screen full
PgDn down one screen full
Ctrl-PgUp beginning of file
Ctrl-PgDn end file
Ctrl-Home beginning of page
Ctrl-End end of page
Ctrl-Left left one word
Ctrl-Right right one word
Ctrl-Up up one paragraph
Ctrl-Down down one paragraph
Meta/Alt-Up scroll up one line
Meta/Alt-Down scroll down one line

Highlight keys:
Shift with any of the above keys will highlight at the same time.

Column highlighting:
Holding down the Control key while using the mouse to highlight text,
will cause the highlighted text to be displayed in inverse colour. You
will be able to select columns (arbitrary rectangles) of text and
drag and drop them as usual.

Input History:
When editing an input line, Shift-Up or Shift-Down
will bring up a history of previous inputs.

Editing keys:
Delete delete char to the right
Backspace delete char to the left
Meta/Alt-Del delete to line end
Meta/Alt-Backspace delete to line begin
Meta/Alt-Right delete word to the right
Meta/Alt-Left delete word to the left
F5 copy highlighted text to cursor
F6 move highlighted text to cursor
F8 delete highlighted text
Ctrl-y delete line
Shift-Enter insert a newline
Enter insert a newline with auto indent (default)
Tab insert a tab (see options menu)
Insert toggle insert/overwrite
Ctrl-q quote - the next key pressed will be interpreted as a literal
Undo:
Ctrl-u
Ctrl-Backspace

File
Ctrl-F1 man page
F2 save
F12 or
Shift-F2 save as
Ctrl-o load

Ctrl-j jump to file under cursor
Ctrl-n new
Ctrl-f save highlighted text as
Shift-F5 or
F15 insert file at cursor

Mark:
F3 toggle highlight
Ctrl-b toggle highlight columns

Search and replace:
F7 search
F17 or
Shift-F7 search again
F4 replace
F14 or
Shift-F4 replace again

X Clipboard:
Ctrl-Ins copy to clipboard
Shift-Ins paste to clipboard
Shift-Delete cut to clipboard
Ctrl-Delete delete highlighted text
Meta/Alt-Ins insert from selection history

General:
F10 exit (current editor)
Ctrl-F3 new edit window
Shift-F3 new main window
Alt-F6 maximise the window
Ctrl-F6 window cycle
Ctrl-F10 exit application
Meta/Alt-x save all and exit
Ctrl-F2 save state of desktop
Ctrl-d insert date and time
Meta/Alt-l goto line number
Meta/Alt-F7 run make
Meta/Alt-t sort
Ctrl-r start/end record macro
Ctrl-a execute macro
Ctrl-p spell check highlighted text
Shift-F9 C formatter
Ctrl-Tab complete word
Meta/Alt-i insert unicode character
Shift/F1 rxvt terminal

Debug:

Alt-F2 toggle breakpoint
Alt-F3 continue until cursor
Alt-F4 continue
Alt-F5 run from beginning
Alt-F8 single step, dive into functions
Alt-F9 single step, skip over functions
Ctrl-c interrupt program

New shell scripts will be added from time to time. Consult the Scripts menu for the hotkeys that envoke these.

doc-editor-actions – Midnight Commander

d>

Command	default hotkey
No-Command	Empty action
Ignore-Key	Empty action
BackSpace	Deleting the character to the left of the cursor
Delete	Deleting the character to the right of the cursor
Enter	New line
Page-Up	move up by one page
move down by one page
Left	move left by one character
Right	move right by one character
Word-Left	move left by one word
Word-Right	move right by one word
Up	move up by one line
Down	move down by one line
Home	move to begin of line
End	move to end of line
Tab	tabulation
Undo	Undo operation
Beginning-Of-Text	move to begin of text
End-Of-Text	move to end of text
Scroll-Up	scroll up
Scroll-Down	scroll down
Return	???Return???
Begin-Page	move to begin of screen
End-Page	move to end of screen
Delete-Word-Left	Deleting the word to the left of the cursor
Delete-Word-Right	Deleting the word to the right of the cursor
Paragraph-Up	move up by one paragraph
Paragraph-Down	move down by one paragraph
Save	save current file
Load	open file
New	create new file
Save-as	save current file with another name
Mark	mark of text
Copy	copying of marked text
Move	moving of marked text
Remove	deleting of marked text
Unmark	unmark of text
Save-Block	save marked text into file
Column-Mark	vertical mark of text
Find	call of 'search' dialog window
Find-Again	continue search
Replace	call of 'replace' dialog window
Replace-Again	continue replace
Complete-Word	autocompletions of words
Insert-File	insert text from file
Exit	Exit from editor
Toggle-Insert	toggle insert/override edit mode
Help	call of help window
Date	insert current date
Refresh	refresh screen
Goto	Go to line
Delete-Line	delete current line
Delete-To-Line-End	delete from cursor position to end of line
Delete-To-Line-Begin	delete from cursor position to begin of line

Man-Page

Sort

Sorting of marked text

Mail

Cancel

cancel action

Complete

Paragraph-Format

formatting of paragraphs

Util Type-Load-Python

Find-File

call 'file search' dialog windos

Ctags

Match-Bracket

search paired brackets

Terminal Terminal-App ExtCmd

User-Menu

call of user-defined menu

Save-Desktop New-Window Cycle Menu Save-And-Quit Run-Another Check-Save-And-Quit Maximize Begin-Record-Macro End-Record-Macro Delete-Macro

Toggle-Bookmark	create/remove bookmark
Flush-Bookmarks	delete all bookmarks
Next-Bookmark	go to next bookmark
Prev-Bookmark	go to previous bookmark

Page-Up-Highlight Page-Down-Highlight Left-Highlight Right-Highlight Word-Left-Highlight Word-Right-Highlight Up-Highlight Down-Highlight Home-Highlight End-Highlight Beginning-Of-Text-Highlight End-Of-Text_Highlight Begin-Page-Highlight End-Page-Highlight Scroll-Up-Highlight Scroll-Down-Highlight Paragraph-Up-Highlight Paragraph-Down-Highlight

XStore	save marked text into ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.clip file
XCut	cut marked text and save into ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.clip file
XPaste	insert text from ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.clip file

Selection-History Shell Select-Codepage Insert-Literal Execute-Macro Begin-or-End-Macro Ext-mode Focus-Next Focus-Prev Height-Inc Height-Dec Make Error-Next Error-Prev

Debug-Start Debug-Stop Debug-Toggle-Break Debug-Clear Debug-Next Debug-Step Debug-Back-Trace Debug-Continue Debug-Enter-Command Debug-Until-Curser

Etc

Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

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Classic books:

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