On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:42:51AM EDT, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > Sometimes it is not just for fun. If you are tranferring just 2 or 3 files, > > the possibility of doing "mistakes" with GUI is a lot less than using cli. > > > > Besides if you are like me and have 20-30 character long file names, which > > take atleast 8 tab strokes to complete the filename even while employing > > wildcards, GUI is definitely the way to go (all that involved is just a > > left mouse click). > > > > I do use command line whenever I think it gets the job done efficiently. > > However I am not averse to using GUI if it gets the job done efficiently. > > Efficiency is what matters, not how you get the job done. YMMV. > > > > hth > > raju > > > > You can persuade midnight commander to do this kind of thing. It works > quite well although it took me a bit of time to figure out how to do it.
The Gnu Interactive Tools -- aka git .. etc. are another, possibly better example. $ apt-cache show git $ apt-get install git $ info git etc. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
