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Midnight commander tab switch shortcut for autocomplete
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| This allows you to use shift-tab to switch active tab in midnight commander, while allowing you to use tab for autocomplete commands like cd. Good for people used to using TAB to autocomplete commands in terminal line. | |
| Original post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/250818/how-to-use-command-line-completion-in-midnight-commander | |
| nano ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap | |
| [filemanager:empty-cmdline] | |
| ChangePanel = tab | |
| [filemanager] | |
| ChangePanel = ctrl-tab; shift-tab | |
| [input] | |
| Complete = tab | |
| Change time display in midnight commander to numeric: | |
| Open ~/.config/mc/ini | |
| Change timeformat_recent and timeformat_old settings to the same format string (in my case, to %F %T, which is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) | |
| Save ~/.config/mc/ini | |
| https://superuser.com/questions/600545/how-to-display-normal-date-time-in-midnight-commander |
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