[Coco] YouTube video of the recent MShell Beta

Richard E Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Tue Nov 18 12:58:03 EST 2014


On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:52:18 -0500
Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> 
> Steven, I'm starting to see what you mean in opening the OS9
> directories. I've been doing some bug chasing and in doing so, I've
> been copying a bunch of files from the PC drive to OS9 so I can catch
> the bug and I'm getting really tired of clicking (Open Directory) on
> every OS9 directory change. The PC drive directory changes already
> act in the manner you mentioned since they have no contect menus. I
> may rethink how this works and change some actions. Maybe
> <cntrl>click opens the "dir context menu" and plain click opens the
> dir. This would make the PC and OS9 dir changes consistant, RSDOS
> file systems have no dirs so it's not an issue there..... What do you
> guys think? 
> 
> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 5:14 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] YouTube video of the recent MShell Beta
> 
> 
> 
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I thought i'd post a quick video I did of Bill's MShell Beta that
> >> he's recently released.  I don't think I've done it justice, but
> >> wanted to help get the word out there.  :)
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbR3ZPZAm8g&list=UUUFH_0J6wN0VS0h-WqtYz
> 
> I think it looks good.  Can I make suggestion?  Why not have "enter
> this directory" be the default action when you highlight a directory
> on screen and hit "Enter".  That's what I count on for behavior in
> Midnight Commander and it seems like the most common thing a user
> would want to do when browsing around.
> 
> 
> 

I love it, MShell looks very similar to Total Commander, Krusader,
DirOpus, and DM2 8-).


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