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Re: Start mc with every new shell

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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx>
To: chesss <testingagain@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Start mc with every new shell
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 16:32:54 +0100
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On 11/9/06, chesss <testingagain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The only bit of of midnight-commander I really like is the ability to
quickly press ctrl+o and get a nice scrollable listing of files, and the n
press ctrl+o again to get back to zsh.


Have you given screen(1) [1] a try?  It lets you multiplex one
terminal between many different applications so that you can have mc
in one "window" and a shell in another, completely independent of each
other.  It's not what you're asking about, but it may be what you'll
actually want in the end.

 nikolai

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

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