Ticket #2701 (new enhancement)
Compress to format...
Reported by: | iwfmp | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | Future Releases |
Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | #4571 | Blocking: | |
Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
ATM there's a few scripts in the user menu that compress to a few formats.
It would be great to have a prompt for the compression type when trying to compress files/directories.
Perhaps using a hotkey (C-x, c) to show the window that prompts for a compression type (zip, tar.gz, bz2 etc...) and using a hotkey to choose the specific format.
The name of the compressed file would be prompted from the user when the format is chosen...
Change History
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by iwfmp
You're right, this is the current option, and there's basically nothing wrong with it.
What I suggested is making the compression a little more organized - using a hot-key to open a window with all and only with compression formats, and then pressing a hotkey to select the correct one.
for example pressing C-x, c will open a window that prompts me for compression format:
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Please select compression type:
g&z
t&ar.gz
&tar
&bz2
etc (the & represents the format hotkey)
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by szaszg
This would be a good feature. BTW some of the "great" ancestor has similar options, and more...
Norton:
- General settings for compression (select fast, smaller size)
- Alt+F5 Compress with select compressor (builtin zip, pkzip, etc...)
Dos Navigator:
- General settings for all external archivers
- Shift+F1 Compress with select compressor and options (lot of...)
Necromancer's Dos Navigator:
similar to DN
Volkov:
- hmm.., never finished ...
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by cazacugmihai
Until then, I did this:
= t d 1 Compress the current subdirectory (7z) Pwd=`basename %d /` echo -n "Name of the compressed file (without extension) [$Pwd]: " read name [ "$name"x = x ] && name="$Pwd" cd .. && \ 7z a "$name.7z" "$Pwd" && \ echo "../$name.7z created." + t r & ! t t 2 Compress file (7z) Pwd=`basename %d /` echo -n "Name of the compressed file (without extension) [%f]: " read name [ "$name"x = x ] && name="%f" 7z a "$name.7z" "%f" && \ echo "$name.7z created." + t t 3 Compress files (7z) Pwd=`basename %d /` echo -n "Name of the compressed file (without extension) [$Pwd]: " read name [ "$name"x = x ] && name="$Pwd" 7z a "$name.7z" %s && \ echo "$name.7z created."
I don't quite understand what you want.