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Orthodoxy: The things that are considered correct and proper beliefs. This word comes from the Greek words 'orthos' meaning straight or right and 'doxa' meaning belief.

TheoGlossary - A Glossary of Words and Theological Terms by Dr. Terry E. Shoup


Orthodoxy: Any practice or teaching that falls within the established framework of the conventions, beliefs and doctrines of a given religious tradition.

Glossary of Important Terms

In a world obsessed with fancy GUI widgets and where look-and-feel of OS and applications change each three-five years, it's refreshing to see a minimalist interface that has the same look and feel for more then 30 years. And there are users of this product with more then 25 years experience (I am one of them, I have been using it since 1989 ;-)

Anybody involved in IT knows all too well that a quarter of a century in software is equal to eternity. Among system and application programs there are very few survivors which in some form preserved the world of unique 1980th-style character based interfaces. Among them we can mentions VI, THE editor, and a couple of other programs.

Several programs belonging to this type are descendants of Norton Commander, a file manager first released in 1986 by Norton Computing (since 1990 Norton Computing became part of Symantec). But not only file managers can have this type of interface. There is a distinct, but very similar trend in editors such as vi and THE, windows multiplexers (GNU screen), and minimalist windows managers (ratpoison). We can talk about Orthodox interface as a distinct type of interface different in concepts from traditional GUI interface used in Microsoft Windows and Apple operating systems and simultaneously different (and richer) then plain vanilla command line interface. See my article Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface of Orthodox File Managers for more information on the topic.

Orthodox file managers survived because behind Spartan appearance, they provided a very flexible interface as well as provided far richer functionality then alternatives (and while it's just accidental that one of popular OFMs is called FAR, we can claim that it was God's hand which guided the author to chose this particular name :-). In a way, OFM are extending the traditional Unix shell functionality in a new way creating a hybrid of shell and file manager, or a graphical shell if you wish.

In Linux administration usage of Orthodox file managers such as Midnight Commander can be viewed as a part "back to basic" movement -- the protest against overcomplexity and bloat that dominate RHEL since RHEL 7  as well as other Linux distributions when sysdmins is pushed into Windows -style managemnet of the system using "click-click-clikc" GUI interfaces.

Another attraction is that due to stability of interface they belong to the unique class of programs usually called "Learn once, use for forever." That includes the ability to jump from one OFM manager to another with minimal pain. And they have an unmatched, really unmatched and completely unique in a world of idiosyncratic file managers portability (there is probably no platform for which at least one OFM does not exist; they are available on smartphones too :-) While originated in DOS and still more widely used in Windows world, OFMs really belong to Unix, sharing with Unix simplicity of design that hides extremely rich functionality, the elegance of key ideas (the idea of graphical shell, no more no less) and the prominent role that shells ( such as ksh and bash ) play in this environment (in OFM shell is exposed via command line, as well as in user menu and extension menu).

Recently Microsoft caught-up in shell area with the introduction of PowerShell, but still Windows world does not have a shell culture that exists in Unix world and used to exist in DOS world. That's probably why Midnight commander has the best implementation of user menu and extension menu among all prominent OFMs.

After 2012 revision my introductory article for this page exceeded 25K limit and was moved it to its own page. See Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface of Orthodox File Managers (an introduction to Orthodox File Managers(OFM))


Abstract

The Orthodox File Managers (OFMs) that are also known as "Commanders" are remote descendants of Norton Commander (NC) written by John Socha and first released in 1986 for MS DOS. Despite Spartan interface (or, more correctly, due to it) Orthodox file managers provide an extremely rich functionality, unsurpassed by any other type of file managers. Including a unique way of shell and file manager integration via user menu with a set of macrovariables as well as shell terminal window, making them natural sysadmin IDE. Due to unique blend of power, flexibility and portability they became the tool of choice for system administrators, especially in xUSSR region, Eastern Europe, Germany and Scandinavian countries. Those regions were place of birth of the most impressive OFM implementations such as Far, Total Commander, deco, Volkov Commander, Dos Navigator, Altap Salamander and many others.

There are three fundamental properties of Orthodox file managers:

  1. Conservative (as in "far from being fancy"), very stable (25 years without major changes), very flexible interface with two symmetrical windows (called panels, with trademark white on blue letters, by default) that hides behind Spartan interface very rich functionality. It really teaches us that "less is more"
  2. One "terminal style" window that initially is minimized to a single line at the bottom of panels, but can be expanded to full screen, half-screen or any number of lines. The user can work in this window like with regular console screen.
  3. Additional way of integration with the underling OS shell via so called User menu and extension menu using the same set of macro variables that are available for command line, which is also used in the built-in editor, providing an opportunity to pipe result of the shell script execution to the place after the cursor or pipe a selected block as input of some script.

At the same time they represent just one instance of a larger category that can be called Orthodox interface. This category includes editors such as vi and THE (orthodox editors), windows multiplexers (GNU screen), windows managers (such as ratpoison) and probably some other that I just don't yet discovered. I am still working on refining this notion but as a set of raw ideas it includes:

  1. Distinct command set layer with commands that can be entered from the command line and reflected in GUI interface. In this sense vi is a reference implementation and OFM inspired by vi have some interesting, distinct from traditional line of OFM ideas implemented. See ranger and vifm.
  2. Tiled, nonoverlapping windows with minimum decorations
  3. Stress on availability of all commands via keyboard, not only via mouse clicks, althouth mouse can be productively used and is used in such interface.
  4. Ability to redirect output of commands executed in one window to other windows and processes.
  5. Usage of GUI elements to generate commands on command line (macrovariables and such commands as Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] in OFM. )
  6. Accent of extensibility and programmability (with shell and/or scripting languages) instead of eye candy.

My ebook The Orthodox File Manager(OFM) Paradigm contains more in-depth investigation of this phenomenon:

You can also see videos on YouTube related to various OFMs, mentioned above. Among them:

OFMs as sysadmin IDE

The right way to look on OFMs is not as on file managers, but as an shell IDE. That means the quality of shell terminal window provided is of paramount importance for OFMs and the role of user menu is central. Unfortunately outside DOS implementations most OFMs are weak in this area and that might be the reason OFMs did not got the popularity among sysadmins they deserve. Some like Total Commander treat shell terminal window functionality like red hair step child despite availability and great productivity enhancing potential of PowerShell on Windows. In Unix OFMs the low quality of shell terminal window implementation (that should be equal to GNU Screen split window implementation) in my view greatly influenced the fact that particular OFM implementation have difficulties to attract critical mass of sysadmins as is visible from scarcity of manpower and development resources in MC and other orthodox file managers for Unix.

Unfortunately most current implementation are very weak in this area and that might be the reason OFMs did not got the popularity among sysadmins they deserve. Some like Total Commander treat shell terminal window functionality like red hair step child despite availability and great productivity enhancing potential of PowerShell on Windows. On Unix quality of shell terminal window implementation (that should be equal to GNU Screen split window implementation) in my view greatly influence whether particular OFM implementation can attract critical mass of users, or not.

Simplifying the reference implementation for OFM terminal window implementation should serve GNU screen. Anything less than make them much less attractive for Unix sysadmins. That also means that internal viewer and built-in editor are very important, "first class citizens" parts of OFMs and implementation of them should get attention they deserve. The quality of their integration with panel-based file management subsystem by-and-large-determine the quality of this IDE. In this respect pioneered by Midnight Commander editor user menu is an important step forward and should be implemented in other OFMs, especially Unix/Linux OFMs. I would say that without this feature as well as dynamic user menu (also pioneered by Midnight Commander) OFM looks like second rate tools. Unfortunately Midnight Commander is not that perfect in shell terminal window implementation although there is a progress from version 4.6 to version 4.8 and implementation in version 4.8 while far from perfect looks more sysadmin friendly.

They can also serve the role of IDE for webmasters of the sites that use plain-vanilla HTML (as opposed to database driven sites). With ftp and SSH virtual filesystems available for such site an OFM is a quintessential Webmaster tool. It definitely plays this role for Softpanorama. This unique role that OFMs can play as a webmaster IDE fuels my interest in the field after more then two decades of usage.

Along with integration of file managers, internal viewer and editor OFM also integrate functionality of a dozen command line utilities including, but not limited to:

  1. touch via files attribute dialog
  2. tar -- via Archive VFS
  3. gzip -- via Archive VFS
  4. bzip -- via Archive VFS

  5. zip/unzip -- via Archive VFS

  6. ln -- via F5/F6 operations ability to create symbolic and hard links
  7. chown -- via change attributes dialog
  8. chmod -- via change attributes dialog
  9. find -- via FindFile dialog
  10. grep -- via FindFile dialog
  11. more -- via internal viewer
  12. cd -- via NCD panel
  13. history -- duplicating management of command history with the additional recoding of history of all dialog boxes.

Comparison Table (from Ch.2 of the OFM book)

OFM name
(and link to a book chapter)
NC
Norton Commander
FC
File Commander
DN
Dos Navigator
FAR
Far Manager
MC
Midnight Commander
  NCW
Norton Commander for Windows
Total Commander WinSCP Krusader EmelFM2 FreeCommander mu
Commander
Altar Salamander
OFM Type Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic     GUI GUI GUI GUI GUI GUI GUI GUI
Status of development
(active if the the version is less then six month old, stalled if a year, frozen if more the a year)
Aban-
doned
Stalled Stalled  Active Active   Abandoned Active Active Stalled Stalled Stalled, but forum is active Active Stalled
Last stable version 5.0 2.4
(as of March 2011)
ndnv
2.31.5309 (Mar 23, 2010)
1.75 build 2634 and 2.0 build 1897
(Feb 03, 2011)

Far 3.0 built 2884

4.8.1
(Sept 2012)
  2.01 8.01
(Aug, 2012)
5.1.5
(May,2013)
2.0.0/2.4.0-beta2
(Mar, 2011)
2-0.8.1
(2012-04-20)
2009.02b 0.9 (as of July, 2012) 2.54, Sept 2010
OS supported DOS  OS/2,
Win 9x,Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD

 Win,
Linux (ndn)

 Win Linux & Unix
 
  Win 98, Win2000, Win XP  Win XP, Win 7,
Win 8
Win XP, Win 7,
Win 8
Linux, KDE Linux, GTK+ Win Multi-platform
(Java)
Windows XP and Win7
Size of compressed distribution 1.4M   0.3M ~1M 1M 1.56 M      2M   3.5M 4.78 4M 1M (source) 2.54M 4M 7MB
Software type and download link (if different from the development Commercial Shareware Open source:
2 major versions:
ndn & dnosp
Far 1.75 is free,

Far 2.0 is open source

GNU
License
  Commercial Shareware GNU License GNU License GNU License Freeware GNU License Commercial
Price $90 ? $35 $0 $25 $0   £21/€ 35 $44/€ 32 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $29.95

Ten OFM Commandments ;-)

"I have found Jesus. He came to me in the form of muCommander."

-- A happy user

There is a large variety among OFM implementations. Moreover different OFMs are good for different situations and tasks -- there is no and never will be the best OFM for all situations and environments. But they all share same distinctive interface framework and the following basic features:

  1. Spartan interface with unique, "non-fashionable" but very functional structure: two symmetrical panels that display files in two directories and a minimized (but extendable to half and full screen)  telnet-style terminal session with local host ( command line ) at the bottom of the screen.  
  2. Seamless integration with the shell making OFMs a synonym to "Visual shell.". There are two features that are obligatory for orthodox file managers
  3. The ability to extend file manager functionality with custom scripts providing users with script library (called user menu and traditionally available via F2). Both command line and GUI-based OFMs should have the ability to create a library of "helpers": simple (or not so simple) shell scripts accessible using F2 . You can invoke them by assigning each of them special hotkey. Scripts should permit macro variables that reflect the current status of both panels (path to active/passive panel, the current file on active/passive panel, selected files , if any, etc).  This simple, ingenious, and very functional  extensibility with custom shell scripts make OFM very attractive for system administrators. They are useful for advanced users as they greatly simplify working with archives, ISO and so on and so forth. Actually in late 80th, early 90th of the last century in the former USSR region many DOS users never suspected that any other DOS interface exists: OFM interface was the standard and the only DOS interface they knew. 
     
  4. The availability of scripts associated with file extensions via special file extension menu and invoked by pressing Enter on the file with the particular extension on a panel.  This is another way to extend file manager functionality and file extension associations were pioneered by Norton Commander.  Special customizable extension files that permit context-dependent invocation of scripts and programs on a  file click (execute), F3(view) and in F4(edit). Customizable file extension menu should provides automatic passing of various panel-based parameters to shell scripts via macro variables (or environment variables) that were discussed above (active file, path to left and right panels, list of selected files, etc)
     
  5. "History for everything" approach to user input in command line and dialogs.  Starting from Norton Commander all OFMs provided the history of commands. Modern OFMs add to this the history of directories visited, files edited, selections, etc. Some advanced OFMs like Midnight Commander add to this the idea of "file/text completion for everything".
     
  6. Integration of application protocols into file manager framework via virtual file systems(VFS). Most popular are  ftp client VFS and archive VFS. Commonly they are implemented as plug-in based on some defined plug-ins API. Less popular, but still very important are Search VFS and "flat tree" VFS. They are all based on the same concept of a virtual file system:
  7. Tight integration of text files viewer and editor within OFM. An integrated viewer for text files and an integrated editor provide some additional and valuable integrating capabilities

    Both editor and viewer should be able to work in full screen mode (default) and "panelized" and should have access to information on both panels (current file, path to the active/passive panel, etc) and ability to treat selections as objects to past into command line (for example for moving to directories). Both editor and viewer should permit pasting information to from the editor to panel (for example, change directory to selected, paste selected into command line, etc) and getting information from panel (names of selected files, etc) and selected parts of the command execution screen back into the editor. 
  8. The ability to add search results to a  browsable virtual panel (panelize command) and a special "directory only" search in a special "find folder" panel. There should be abilities to find an arbitrary file(s) in the filesystem with capabilities equal of better then Unix  find and grep utilities, but with more friendly interface. All panel operations that make sense (view, edit, copy, move, rename, delete) operations should be available from panelized search results:
  9. Client-server connectivity. There should be some kind of client-server connectivity between two instances of OFMs (preferably SSL based TCP/IP connection, or unencrypted TCP/IP connection like in MC, or connection via serial cable like in NC3-NC5, or parallel cable and USB cable like in Total Commander).  This is a fundamental feature because it dictates client-server architecture of OFM with client part and server part separated by some kind of API. Generally one instance OFM should be able to perform as a server (represented by one panel) and second as a slave (represented be the other panel) with the ability to copy files and perform  commands on the remote host. 
  10. Extensibility via plug-ins mechanism. System of plug-ins that extends functionality of the OFM (FAR, Total Commander) and corresponding API.  This is important for OFM architecture as it separates panel interface from the rest of OFM.  FAR is now open source and its plug-in API can serve as an inspiration for future developers.

Again those are Commandments and like in everyday life not everybody is observing them ;-). The worst situation is with providing ability to extend command line at the bottom to command line window. Please note that This unique, innovative capability of Norton Commander (the one that makes it a graphical shell) for some reason is rarely implemented correctly if at all. Please remember that the original name of Norton Commander was VDOS -- visual shell for DOS.

Please remember that the original name of Norton Commander was VDOS -- visual shell for DOS.

Even such leading OFMs like Total Commander and Midnight Commander  do not implement them correctly. For example, in Total Commander  just basic command line functionality is available without ability to extend command line window to half screen of full screen.

In Midnight Commander only full screen command line window available but its functionality is limited (no ability to extend command line window to half screen or expand it line by line as in FAR) and behavior of command line window is different from typical bash shell command line windows which makes it unattractive for power users (compare with  GNU screen "split windows" mode, which should serve as reference implementation of this feature).  In other words MC command window implementation represent example of a cheap hack.  Paradoxically Unix OFMs users (and first of all Unix sysadmins) who would benefit from this functionality most (as culture of using command line is strongest in Unix) need to deal with the weakest in implementation of this feature

Notwithstanding differences and weaknesses of existing implementations three key features stands out and are the key postulates of faith of the "OFM religion":

Complex file operations using mouse is not faster and as cases became more complex are less convenient then performing the same operations using keyboard-based interface using the file manager that implements Orthodox interface paradigm. In a way orthodox means "having the right opinion/following the right practice". And using full power of keyboard (while not rejecting mouse) looks exactly like this. Provided by OFMs unique combination of GUI elements with the preservation of the power of command line is superior to any "mono" interface: either "classic Unix command line" interface or Windows-style GUI interface.  There are several reasons for that. See GUI vs Command line interface.

Recommendations for Users

(extracted from version 1.2 of Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface of Orthodox File Managers

OFM are tools written by programmers for programmers, sysadmins and power users. The elite of PC users. We can distinguish between two levels of OFM skills:

Although basic skills can be acquired in less then a week and gradually can be enhanced to "power user" level, this is not true for master level skills. First of all getting to this level require knowledge of shell (or other scripting language). Also you need to spend some time studying default "user menu" supplied with mc (for a given user many entries are redundant and he/she can start with deleting them) and, if possible, experience of your colleagues in this area. But return of investment is tremendous -- you really will be working in more productive environment, environment productivity of which can't be matched with any number of "off-the-shelf" tools.

Fundamental problem with any interface oriented on extensive keyboard usage is that the set of commands is large. That means that some important commands and methods are easily forgotten without practice (this situation is typical for any tool with extensive command set, such as vim). Based on my more then 20 years experience with OFM (I started using them in 1989) I would recommend the following methods of enhancing your skills:

Time spend on those activities will be repaid many times. Learning OFM is one of the best investment in time you can make. Good luck !

- Dr Nikolai Bezroukov


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[May 10, 2021] The Tilde Text Editor

Highly recommended!
This is an editor similar to FDE and can be used as external editor for MC
May 10, 2021 | os.ghalkes.nl

Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. For example, the short-cut to copy the current selection is Control-C, and to paste the previously copied text the short-cut Control-V can be used. As another example, the File menu can be accessed by pressing Meta-F.

However, being a terminal-based program there are limitations. Not all terminals provide sufficient information to the client programs to make Tilde behave in the most intuitive way. When this is the case, Tilde provides work-arounds which should be easy to work with.

The main audience for Tilde is users who normally work in GUI environments, but sometimes require an editor for a console/terminal environment. This may be because the computer in question is a server which does not provide a GUI, or is accessed remotely over SSH. Tilde allows these users to edit files without having to learn a completely new interface, such as vi or Emacs do. A result of this choice is that Tilde will not provide all the fancy features that Vim or Emacs provide, but only the most used features.

News Tilde version 1.1.2 released

This release fixes a bug where Tilde would discard read lines before an invalid character, while requested to continue reading.

23-May-2020

Tilde version 1.1.1 released

This release fixes a build failure on C++14 and later compilers

12-Dec-2019

[Apr 03, 2020] Use Midnight Commander like a pro by Igor Kilmer

Apr 03, 2020 | klimer.eu

Panels

Common actions

Panel options

Bonus assignments

[Mar 05, 2020] Using Ctags with MC

Mar 05, 2020 | frankhesse.wordpress.com

the Midnight Commander's built-in editor turned out to be. Below is one of the features of mc 4.7, namely the use of the ctags / etags utilities together with mcedit to navigate through the code.

Code Navigation
Training
Support for this functionality appeared in mcedit from version 4.7.0-pre1.
To use it, you need to index the directory with the project using the ctags or etags utility, for this you need to run the following commands:

$ cd /home/user/projects/myproj
$ find . -type f -name "*.[ch]" | etags -lc --declarations -

or
$ find . -type f -name "*.[ch]" | ctags --c-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q -e -L-

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After the utility completes, a TAGS file will appear in the root directory of our project, which mcedit will use.
Well, practically all that needs to be done in order for mcedit to find the definition of the functions of variables or properties of the object under study.

Using
Imagine that we need to determine the place where the definition of the locked property of an edit object is located in some source code of a rather large project.


/* Succesful, so unlock both files */
if (different_filename) {
if (save_lock)
edit_unlock_file (exp);
if (edit->locked)
edit->locked = edit_unlock_file (edit->filename);
} else {
if (edit->locked || save_lock)
edit->locked = edit_unlock_file (edit->filename);
}

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To do this, put the cursor at the end of the word locked and press alt + enter , a list of possible options appears, as in the screenshot below.
image

After selecting the desired option, we get to the line with the definition.

[Mar 05, 2020] How to switch the editor in mc (midnight commander) from nano to mcedit?

Jan 01, 2014 | askubuntu.com

Ask Question Asked 9 years, 2 months ago Active 6 months ago Viewed 123k times

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sdu ,

Using ubuntu 10.10 the editor in mc (midnight commander) is nano. How can i switch to the internal mc editor (mcedit)?

Isaiah ,

Press the following keys in order, one at a time:
  1. F9 Activates the top menu.
  2. o Selects the Option menu.
  3. c Opens the configuration dialog.
  4. i Toggles the use internal edit option.
  5. s Saves your preferences.

Hurnst , 2014-06-21 02:34:51

Run MC as usual. On the command line right above the bottom row of menu selections type select-editor . This should open a menu with a list of all of your installed editors. This is working for me on all my current linux machines.

, 2010-12-09 18:07:18

You can also change the standard editor. Open a terminal and type this command:
sudo update-alternatives --config editor

You will get an list of the installed editors on your system, and you can chose your favorite.

AntonioK , 2015-01-27 07:06:33

If you want to leave mc and system settings as it is now, you may just run it like
$ EDITOR=mcedit

> ,

Open Midnight Commander, go to Options -> Configuration and check "use internal editor" Hit save and you are done.

[Mar 05, 2020] Far Manager as IDE - Codeforces

Mar 05, 2020 | codeforces.com
  1. Deep Thoughts with Richard Schoen: Using Midnite Commander ... blog.richardschoen.net/2018/01/using-midnite- commander -on-ibm-i-via.html

    Jan 14, 2018 · If you used Norton Commander back in the day you probably remember this DOS utility with a side -by-side directory list. It saved my life back in the early days of PCs. I discovered Midnite Commander a few years ago which functions as a functional equivalent to Norton Commander in Linux. There is also an AIX version so now that I have SSH working I thought I would give it a try.

[Oct 07, 2019] On Linux I was using Double Commander, but because it was using Qt4 I decided to give Krusader a chance

Oct 07, 2019 | www.reddit.com

cristianadam 1 point · 1 year ago

I'm a OFM Junkie. On Linux I was using Double Commander, but because it was using Qt4 I decided to give Krusader a chance.

I've been using Krusader for months now. It has its quirks but it works!

Today Krusader 2.7.0 was released with KDE Neon. It fixes one issue I was having. Nice!

[Sep 30, 2019] Double Commander -- an open-source multi-platform orthodox file manager inspired by the Total Commander

It is developed since 2014 by Alexander Koblov ( [email protected] ). while still in beta, now, in version 0.9, it is a full featured GUI-based OFM that can be used in production environment. Pretty stable. Like Total Commander it is written in Pascal.
Official website is https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/
Executables exists for Win65, Linux64 and Mac. https://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/
Notable quotes:
"... Brief, full and thumbnail view ..."
"... Customizable keyboard shortcuts ..."
"... Visual file comparison/diff [5] ..."
"... Built-in file viewer and text editor [ 6] ..."
Sep 30, 2019 | en.wikipedia.org

Double Commander is an open-source multi-platform two-panel orthodox file manager that is inspired by the Microsoft Windows -only Total Commander . [3]

Contents Features
This feature is one that can be very useful. It shows files by directory and sub-directory. It compares them by date/time stamp and by file size. One can focus on files that are different, or ones that are identical.
Panes can be duplicated from one side to the other. Panes can represent original directories compared to copied or backed-up ones. These can then be matched in more detail in the synchronize directory feature.
Tabs are for directories. Sets of tabs can be saved to files that can be reloaded to produce the same two panels and their tabs that one set up and saved. Tabs can be configured to allow no changes to them, or to open sub-directories in new tabs, so that the original tab remains intact and available.
References

[Aug 20, 2019] Is it possible to insert separator in midnight commander menu?

Jun 07, 2010 | superuser.com

Ask Question Asked 9 years, 2 months ago Active 7 years, 10 months ago Viewed 363 times 2

okutane ,Jun 7, 2010 at 3:36

I want to insert some items into mc menu (which is opened by F2) grouped together. Is it possible to insert some sort of separator before them or put them into some submenu?
Probably, not.
The format of the menu file is very simple. Lines that start with anything but
space or tab are considered entries for the menu (in order to be able to use
it like a hot key, the first character should be a letter). All the lines that
start with a space or a tab are the commands that will be executed when the
entry is selected.

But MC allows you to make multiple menu entries with same shortcut and title, so you can make a menu entry that looks like separator and does nothing, like:

a hello
  echo world
- --------
b world
  echo hello
- --------
c superuser
  ls /

This will look like:

[Aug 20, 2019] Fixing Midnight Commander's unreadable dropdown menus

Apr 24, 2011 | tech.iprock.com
Skip to content April 24, 2011 by Admin
Important This is an edited version of a post that originally appeared on a blog called The Michigan Telephone Blog, which was written by a friend before he decided to stop blogging. It is reposted with his permission. Comments dated before the year 2013 were originally posted to his blog.

If you've installed Midnight Commander and haven't changed the default colors, when you try to access a dropdown menu you may see this:

Midnight Commander -- Original Colors

REALLY hard to read that menu, isn't it? Wouldn't you rather see this?

Midnight Commander -- Changed Colors

To fix the unreadable menus, just make sure Midnight Commander is not open, then use any text editor (such as nano) to open ~/.mc/ini:

nano ~/.mc/ini

Assuming that there is no existing [Colors] section in the file, just add this at the bottom of the file (if the second line exceeds the blog column width, just use copy and paste to get it all):

[Colors] base_color=default,default:menu=black,cyan:menuhot=brightmagenta,cyan:menusel=white,blue:menuhotsel=brightmagenta,blue

If there is an existing [Colors] section, you can try tweaking it using the parameters shown above. If you have a very recent version of Midnight Commander (which you probably will have if you are running Ubuntu), then instead of menu= you'll need to use menunormal= , as shown here:

[Colors] base_color=default,default:menunormal=black,cyan:menuhot=brightmagenta,cyan:menusel=white,blue:menuhotsel=brightmagenta,blue

Note that for some reason the base_color parameter must appear, or the other items are ignored. Save the change, exit the editor, and open Midnight Commander. If you then close Midnight Commander, you may find that the position of the [Colors] section has moved within the ini file -- apparently Midnight Commander rewrites the file when you close it -- but if you don't like the changes you can remove the [Colors] section to reverse the change.

I figured out how to do this after reading this blog post:
Ajnasz Blog – Midnight Commander colors and themes
Another source of information is:
Zagura's blog – Midnight Commander Color Themes

Related Posts
  • [Aug 20, 2019] Midnight Commander, using date in User menu

    Dec 31, 2013 | unix.stackexchange.com

    user2013619 ,Dec 31, 2013 at 0:43

    I would like to use MC (midnight commander) to compress the selected dir with date in its name, e.g: dirname_20131231.tar.gz

    The command in the User menu is :

    tar -czf dirname_`date '+%Y%m%d'`.tar.gz %d

    The archive is missing because %m , and %d has another meaning in MC. I made an alias for the date, but it also doesn't work.

    Does anybody solved this problem ever?

    John1024 ,Dec 31, 2013 at 1:06

    To escape the percent signs, double them:
    tar -czf dirname_$(date '+%%Y%%m%%d').tar.gz %d

    The above would compress the current directory (%d) to a file also in the current directory. If you want to compress the directory pointed to by the cursor rather than the current directory, use %f instead:

    tar -czf %f_$(date '+%%Y%%m%%d').tar.gz %f
    

    mc handles escaping of special characters so there is no need to put %f in quotes.

    By the way, midnight commander's special treatment of percent signs occurs not just in the user menu file but also at the command line. This is an issue when using shell commands with constructs like ${var%.c} . At the command line, the same as in the user menu file, percent signs can be escaped by doubling them.

    [Aug 19, 2019] mc - Is there are any documentation about user-defined menu in midnight-commander - Unix Linux Stack Exchange

    Aug 19, 2019 | unix.stackexchange.com

    Is there are any documentation about user-defined menu in midnight-commander? Ask Question Asked 5 years, 2 months ago Active 1 year, 2 months ago Viewed 3k times 6 2


    login ,Jun 11, 2014 at 13:13

    I'd like to create my own user-defined menu for mc ( menu file). I see some lines like
    + t r & ! t t
    

    or

    + t t
    

    What does it mean?

    goldilocks ,Jun 11, 2014 at 13:35

    It is documented in the help, the node is "Edit Menu File" under "Command Menu"; if you scroll down you should find "Addition Conditions":

    If the condition begins with '+' (or '+?') instead of '=' (or '=?') it is an addition condition. If the condition is true the menu entry will be included in the menu. If the condition is false the menu entry will not be included in the menu.

    This is preceded by "Default conditions" (the = condition), which determine which entry will be highlighted as the default choice when the menu appears. Anyway, by way of example:

    + t r & ! t t
    

    t r means if this is a regular file ("t(ype) r"), and ! t t means if the file has not been tagged in the interface.

    Jarek

    On top what has been written above, this page can be browsed in the Internet, when searching for man pages, e.g.: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-mc/

    Search for "Menu File Edit" .

    Best regards, Jarek

    [Aug 10, 2019] LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Midnight Commander Help

    Aug 10, 2019 | www.linuxquestions.org
    CrazyCatLover 12-22-2014 02:40 AM

    Midnight Commander Help
    Hi,

    I need to know how to check the current colour for mc and how to change it.
    I google it and they talk about changeing some initial file /.mc/ini which i have no idea (no one ever gives full filename.)and i cant find it at all. Wasted an hour of my life. I just need the simplest way to change it, not another 10+ steps to change a stupid colour.


    gengisdave 12-22-2014 03:22 AM

    in some distros (mine, e.g.) it is located in ~/.local/mc/ini

    sycamorex 12-22-2014 03:24 AM

    This is the full filename. Mind you on my distro it's in ~/.config/mc/ini
    Find / Create this file and add the following (obviously change the colour values):

    The syntax is: variable=foreground_colour,background_colour
    Code:


    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,green:normal=green,default:selected=white,gray:marked=yellow,default:markselect=yellow,gray:directory=blue,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=cyan,default:device=brightmagenta,default:special=lightgray,default:errors=red,default:reverse=green,default:gauge=green,default:input=white,gray:dnormal=green,gray:dfocus=brightgreen,gray:dhotnormal=cyan,gray:dhotfocus=brightcyan,gray:menu=green,default:menuhot=cyan,default:menusel=green,gray:menuhotsel=cyan,default:helpnormal=cyan,default:editnormal=green,default:editbold=blue,default:editmarked=gray,blue:stalelink=red,default


    Also, have a look at this:
    http://blog.mybox.ro/2010/05/10/skin...ght-commander/

    [Aug 10, 2019] Plug-and-Pray Editing Midnight Commander's color scheme

    Aug 10, 2019 | plug-and-pray.blogspot.com

    Editing Midnight Commander's color scheme In a previous post I was sort of laying out a "formula" on how to transform your Midnight Commander default color scheme into a trasnparent skin, without talking too much about how you can change the other colors.

    To my great shame, I didn't pay too much attention to this blog or to the comments asking for further advice. I found Mateus' comment rather late (just now!) and decided to dig further, in order to find out how exactly to deal with more refined color changes, while still keeping the transparent background (in both in Midnight Commander and its editor).

    So the first thing to know is which are the colors that Midnight Commander supports; the available colors are:

    black
    gray
    lightgray
    white
    red
    brightred
    green
    brightgreen
    blue
    brightblue
    magenta
    brightmagenta
    cyan
    brightcyan
    brown
    yellow
    default

    The " default " color is the one giving out the nice transparency.

    Now, there are certain "components" in Midnight Commander's display that can have their colors altered. Here they are:

    base_color, normal, selected, marked, markselect, errors, menu, reverse, dnormal, dfocus, dhotnormal, dhotfocus, viewunderline, menuhot, menusel, menuhotsel, helpnormal, helpitalic, helpbold, helplink, helpslink, gauge, input, directory, executable, link, stalelink, device, core, special, editnormal, editbold, editmarked, errdhotnormal, errdhotfocus

    Each and every one of these "components" can have its own colors set accordingly to the user's wish. Each component is assigned a color pair and must be followed by a colon (':') in order to separate it from the color pair of the next component. Here's how this basic syntax must look like:

    component=foreground_color,background_color:

    When you start modifying the color scheme in your Midnight Commander configuration file (located at ~/.mc/ini ), you just have to add a section called " [Colors] " and proceed with enumerating the color pairs. So you'd have something like this:

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    component1=foreground_color1,background_color1:...:componentN= foreground_colorN,background_colorN

    For increased readability, I will "truncate" that long line, adding a backslash ('\') to indicate that in fact what follows on the next line should be adjacent to the text on the previous line. This being said, the [Colors] section could look like this:

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    component1=foreground_color1,background_color1:\
    component2=foreground_color2,background_color2:\
    ...
    componentN=foreground_colorN,background_colorN

    Now that you've gotten the hang of this, let's see how the [Colors] section looks like in the default Midnight Commander color scheme (you know, the "ugly" one, with blue and dull cyan):

    IMPORTANT NOTE: For visual impact's sake and due to Blogspot breaking long lines, I wrote each color pair on a single row, followed by a backslash ('\'). Please note that this does NOT work in the ~/.mc/ini file, so the final [Colors] section in your Midnight Commander configuration file MUST be a SINGLE line with no spaces and with each color pair separated from the next one by a colon (':').

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,blue:\
    normal=lightgray,blue:\
    selected=black,cyan:\
    marked=yellow,blue:\
    markselect=yellow,cyan:\
    errors=white,red:\
    menu=white,cyan:\
    reverse=black,lightgray:\
    dnormal=black,lightgray:\
    dfocus=black,cyan:\
    dhotnormal=blue,lightgray:\
    dhotfocus=blue,cyan:\
    viewunderline=brightred,blue:\
    menuhot=yellow,cyan:\
    menusel=white,black:\
    menuhotsel=yellow,black:\
    helpnormal=black,lightgray:\
    helpitalic=red,lightgray:\
    helpbold=blue,lightgray:\
    helplink=black,cyan:\
    helpslink=yellow,blue:\
    gauge=white,black:\
    input=black,cyan:\
    directory=white,blue:\
    executable=brightgreen,blue:\
    link=lightgray,blue:\
    stalelink=brightred,blue:\
    device=brightmagenta,blue:\
    core=red,blue:\
    special=black,blue:\
    editnormal=lightgray,blue:\
    editbold=yellow,blue:\
    editmarked=black,cyan:\
    errdhotnormal=yellow,red:\
    errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    Now let's see. What you want to change first of all is most of the background of these "components", such that the display will be one with a neat looking transparent background. So first of all you might want to make a few changes to these color pairs by replacing the background color "blue" with "default". After doing these changes, your [Colors] section will look a bit like this:

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,default:\
    normal=lightgray,default:\
    selected=black,cyan:\
    marked=yellow,default:\
    markselect=yellow,cyan:\
    errors=white,red:\
    menu=white,cyan:\
    reverse=black,lightgray:\
    dnormal=black,lightgray:\
    dfocus=black,cyan:\
    dhotnormal=blue,lightgray:\
    dhotfocus=blue,cyan:\
    viewunderline=brightred,default:\
    menuhot=yellow,cyan:\
    menusel=white,black:\
    menuhotsel=yellow,black:\
    helpnormal=black,lightgray:\
    helpitalic=red,lightgray:\
    helpbold=blue,lightgray:\
    helplink=black,cyan:\
    helpslink=yellow,default:\
    gauge=white,black:\
    input=black,cyan:\
    directory=white,default:\
    executable=brightgreen,default:\
    link=lightgray,default:\
    stalelink=brightred,default:\
    device=brightmagenta,default:\
    core=red,default:\
    special=black,default:\
    editnormal=lightgray,default:\
    editbold=yellow,default:\
    editmarked=black,cyan:\
    errdhotnormal=yellow,red:\
    errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    Now you've got the basic "Midnight Commander transparent scheme" that was the result of this post .

    Proceeding to Mateus' question, regarding how to change the rest of the colors now, it's about the same as before. What he didn't like there (and as a matter of fact I don't quite like it, either) is the dull cyan that's still seen in the following places:

    1. the bottom line (the one displaying the F1...F10 function keys);
    2. the line that signifies the current selection, the "prompt" which shows you on which file/directory you're "on" at a given moment;
    3. the uppermost line (the "menu" line);
    4. the menus themselves, once you open them.
    To "fix" issues 1, 2, and 3 it is sufficient to alter the value of the " selected " parameter. Notice how it is initially

    selected=black,cyan:\

    My personal choice is to replace the background cyan, which I don't really like, with green. To do this, I'll change this color pair to

    selected=black,green:\

    You can, of course, change the foreground color as well. For me, it's alright to keep the foreground (the text) "black". You can change it to whatever suits your taste.

    To "fix" issue number 4 in the list above, you need to change the " menu " parameter. To get it transparent, just change the "cyan" background to "default". Make other adjustments as you see fit. In other words, change

    menu=white,cyan:\

    into, for instance,

    menu=ligthgray,default:\

    However, there are a few "leftovers" from the default color scheme.

    One of them is the parameter regarding the hotkeys in the menus (the "underlined" character on most of the menu options, showing you what key you can press in order to access that option faster than by moving to it with the arrow keys). This color pair is called " menuhot ". I changed it from

    menuhot=yellow,cyan:\

    into

    menuhot=yellow,default:\

    Another thing which might bother you is the color of the line in the panel you're in when you've "selected all" files (when you've pressed the "*" key). This parameter is called " markselect ". I changed it from

    markselect=yellow,cyan:\

    into

    markselect=white,green:\

    The color pair of the selected buttons in dialogs is called " dfocus ". I changed mine from

    dfocus=black,cyan:\

    into

    dfocus=black,green:\

    In the "focused" buttons or options, the underlined character is called " dhotfocus ". I changed mine from

    dhotfocus=blue,cyan:\

    into

    dhotfocus=brightgreen,green:\

    since the background color was already green, after I modified the " dfocus " color pair.

    The other buttons or options in the dialogs which have hotkeys assigned to them, but which are not "focused" (the buttons/options that you're not located on at a given moment) are still displayed in blue on a light gray background. This color pair is referred to as " dhotnormal ". Since the blue looks a bit odd there, I changed

    dhotnormal=blue,lightgray:\

    into

    dhotnormal=brightgreen,default:\

    Well, this is nice, in window titles and on normal (unfocused) hotkeys I get the transparent background. The problem now is that the rest of the dialog window is still light gray. To change this (to make the window transparent as well), you only need to alter the " dnormal " color pair, such as changing it from

    dnormal=black,lightgray:\

    into

    dnormal=white,default:\

    You may notice that the input fields stay cyan, as well; you find these fields in quite a lot of dialog boxes. To alter this, I changed

    input=black,cyan:\

    into

    input=black,green:\

    One thing which I consider useful is to have symbolic links displayed in bright cyan (as in the colored listings in the terminal). So I just changed

    link=lightgray,default:\

    into

    link=brightcyan,default:\

    Now, regarding the rest of the color pairs, I don't really know what they do. However, if at some point after using Midnight Commander more with this new, neat, transparent/green color scheme you'll notice unwanted leftovers, you can try out other changes in the color pairs values, one at a time, until you determine the troublesome one.

    After operating the changes above, my [Colors] section in ~/.mc/ini now looks like this:

    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,default:\
    normal=lightgray,default:\
    selected=black,green:\
    marked=yellow,default:\
    markselect=white,green:\
    errors=white,red:\
    menu=lightgray,default:\
    reverse=black,lightgray:\
    dnormal=white,default:\
    dfocus=black,green:\
    dhotnormal=brightgreen,default:\
    dhotfocus=brightgreen,green:\
    viewunderline=brightred,default:\
    menuhot=yellow,default:\
    menusel=white,black:\
    menuhotsel=yellow,black:\
    helpnormal=black,lightgray:\
    helpitalic=red,lightgray:\
    helpbold=blue,lightgray:\
    helplink=black,cyan:\
    helpslink=yellow,default:\
    gauge=white,black:\
    input=black,green:\
    directory=white,default:\
    executable=brightgreen,default:\
    link=brightcyan,default:\
    stalelink=brightred,default:\
    device=brightmagenta,default:\
    core=red,default:\
    special=black,default:\
    editnormal=lightgray,default:\
    editbold=yellow,default:\
    editmarked=black,cyan:\
    errdhotnormal=yellow,red:\
    errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    I need to direct you to the " IMPORTANT NOTE " above. The final [Colors] section above is written like this - one pair on each row, followed by a backslash - for clarity's sake. The actual final [Colors] section in your ~/.mc/ini file will have to be a one-liner, with no blanks and no backslashes. So it will probably look similar to this:

    base_color=lightgray,default:normal=lightgray,default:selected=black,green:marked=yellow,default:markselect=white,green:errors=white,red:menu=lightgray,default:reverse=black,lightgray:dnormal=white,default:dfocus=black,green:dhotnormal=brightgreen,default:dhotfocus=brightgreen,green:viewunderline=brightred,default:menuhot=yellow,default:menusel=white,black:menuhotsel=yellow,black:helpnormal=black,lightgray:helpitalic=red,lightgray:helpbold=blue,lightgray:helplink=black,cyan:helpslink=yellow,default:gauge=white,black:input=black,green:directory=white,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=brightcyan,default:stalelink=brightred,default:device=brightmagenta,default:core=red,default:special=black,default:editnormal=lightgray,default:editbold=yellow,default:editmarked=black,cyan:errdhotnormal=yellow,red:errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    Now, the next time you start mc , the new color scheme will take effect.

    As a bonus, here's a picture of how my Midnight Commander looks like, with this new "skin" on:

    Posted by Alexandra at 1:54 PM Labels: color scheme , mc , transparency

    [Aug 10, 2019] Midnight Commander color scheme ~ centosvn

    Aug 10, 2019 | centos-vn.blogspot.com

    Midnight Commander (or "mc") can have transparent panels instead of the ugly, dull default blue. So can "mcedit", its text editor.

    Here's how to do it. Edit the file ~/.mc/ini and add at the end the following:

    [Colors]
    base_color=normal=,default:selected=,:marked=,default:\
    markselect=,:menu=,:menuhot=,:menusel=,:\
    menuhotsel=,:dnormal=,:dfocus=,:dhotnormal=,:dhotfocus=,:\
    input=,:reverse=,:executable=,default:directory=,default:\
    link=,default:device=,default:special=,:core=,:helpnormal=,:\
    helplink=,:helpslink=,:editnormal=,default:

    Note #1: In the above 'code' block, there is only one line below [Colors] . I truncated the line with the backslash because of blogspot rendering issues. You just write all that on one single line, without the "\" (backslash-es).

    Note #2: At the end of this line, the " editnormal,=default: " option means that mcedit will have transparent background in your console, as well.

    To my great shame, I didn't pay too much attention to this blog or to the comments asking for further advice. I found Mateus' comment rather late (just now!) and decided to dig further, in order to find out how exactly to deal with more refined color changes, while still keeping the transparent background (in both in Midnight Commander and its editor).

    So the first thing to know is which are the colors that Midnight Commander supports; the available colors are:

    black
    gray
    lightgray
    white
    red
    brightred
    green
    brightgreen
    blue
    brightblue
    magenta
    brightmagenta
    cyan
    brightcyan
    brown
    yellow
    default

    The " default " color is the one giving out the nice transparency.

    Now, there are certain "components" in Midnight Commander's display that can have their colors altered. Here they are:

    base_color, normal, selected, marked, markselect, errors, menu, reverse, dnormal, dfocus, dhotnormal, dhotfocus, viewunderline, menuhot, menusel, menuhotsel, helpnormal, helpitalic, helpbold, helplink, helpslink, gauge, input, directory, executable, link, stalelink, device, core, special, editnormal, editbold, editmarked, errdhotnormal, errdhotfocus

    Each and every one of these "components" can have its own colors set accordingly to the user's wish. Each component is assigned a color pair and must be followed by a colon (':') in order to separate it from the color pair of the next component. Here's how this basic syntax must look like:

    component=foreground_color,background_color:

    When you start modifying the color scheme in your Midnight Commander configuration file (located at ~/.mc/ini ), you just have to add a section called " [Colors] " and proceed with enumerating the color pairs. So you'd have something like this:

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    component1=foreground_color1,background_color1:...:componentN= foreground_colorN,background_colorN

    For increased readability, I will "truncate" that long line, adding a backslash ('\') to indicate that in fact what follows on the next line should be adjacent to the text on the previous line. This being said, the [Colors] section could look like this:

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    component1=foreground_color1,background_color1:\
    component2=foreground_color2,background_color2:\
    ...
    componentN=foreground_colorN,background_colorN

    Now that you've gotten the hang of this, let's see how the [Colors] section looks like in the default Midnight Commander color scheme (you know, the "ugly" one, with blue and dull cyan):

    IMPORTANT NOTE: For visual impact's sake and due to Blogspot breaking long lines, I wrote each color pair on a single row, followed by a backslash ('\'). Please note that this does NOT work in the ~/.mc/ini file, so the final [Colors] section in your Midnight Commander configuration file MUST be a SINGLE line with no spaces and with each color pair separated from the next one by a colon (':').

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,blue:\
    normal=lightgray,blue:\
    selected=black,cyan:\
    marked=yellow,blue:\
    markselect=yellow,cyan:\
    errors=white,red:\
    menu=white,cyan:\
    reverse=black,lightgray:\
    dnormal=black,lightgray:\
    dfocus=black,cyan:\
    dhotnormal=blue,lightgray:\
    dhotfocus=blue,cyan:\
    viewunderline=brightred,blue:\
    menuhot=yellow,cyan:\
    menusel=white,black:\
    menuhotsel=yellow,black:\
    helpnormal=black,lightgray:\
    helpitalic=red,lightgray:\
    helpbold=blue,lightgray:\
    helplink=black,cyan:\
    helpslink=yellow,blue:\
    gauge=white,black:\
    input=black,cyan:\
    directory=white,blue:\
    executable=brightgreen,blue:\
    link=lightgray,blue:\
    stalelink=brightred,blue:\
    device=brightmagenta,blue:\
    core=red,blue:\
    special=black,blue:\
    editnormal=lightgray,blue:\
    editbold=yellow,blue:\
    editmarked=black,cyan:\
    errdhotnormal=yellow,red:\
    errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    Now let's see. What you want to change first of all is most of the background of these "components", such that the display will be one with a neat looking transparent background. So first of all you might want to make a few changes to these color pairs by replacing the background color "blue" with "default". After doing these changes, your [Colors] section will look a bit like this:

    # the rest of your ~/.mc/ini file

    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,default:\
    normal=lightgray,default:\
    selected=black,cyan:\
    marked=yellow,default:\
    markselect=yellow,cyan:\
    errors=white,red:\
    menu=white,cyan:\
    reverse=black,lightgray:\
    dnormal=black,lightgray:\
    dfocus=black,cyan:\
    dhotnormal=blue,lightgray:\
    dhotfocus=blue,cyan:\
    viewunderline=brightred,default:\
    menuhot=yellow,cyan:\
    menusel=white,black:\
    menuhotsel=yellow,black:\
    helpnormal=black,lightgray:\
    helpitalic=red,lightgray:\
    helpbold=blue,lightgray:\
    helplink=black,cyan:\
    helpslink=yellow,default:\
    gauge=white,black:\
    input=black,cyan:\
    directory=white,default:\
    executable=brightgreen,default:\
    link=lightgray,default:\
    stalelink=brightred,default:\
    device=brightmagenta,default:\
    core=red,default:\
    special=black,default:\
    editnormal=lightgray,default:\
    editbold=yellow,default:\
    editmarked=black,cyan:\
    errdhotnormal=yellow,red:\
    errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    Now you've got the basic "Midnight Commander transparent scheme" that was the result of this post .

    Proceeding to Mateus' question, regarding how to change the rest of the colors now, it's about the same as before. What he didn't like there (and as a matter of fact I don't quite like it, either) is the dull cyan that's still seen in the following places:

    1. the bottom line (the one displaying the F1...F10 function keys);
    2. the line that signifies the current selection, the "prompt" which shows you on which file/directory you're "on" at a given moment;
    3. the uppermost line (the "menu" line);
    4. the menus themselves, once you open them.
    To "fix" issues 1, 2, and 3 it is sufficient to alter the value of the " selected " parameter. Notice how it is initially

    selected=black,cyan:\

    My personal choice is to replace the background cyan, which I don't really like, with green. To do this, I'll change this color pair to

    selected=black,green:\

    You can, of course, change the foreground color as well. For me, it's alright to keep the foreground (the text) "black". You can change it to whatever suits your taste.

    To "fix" issue number 4 in the list above, you need to change the " menu " parameter. To get it transparent, just change the "cyan" background to "default". Make other adjustments as you see fit. In other words, change

    menu=white,cyan:\

    into, for instance,

    menu=ligthgray,default:\

    However, there are a few "leftovers" from the default color scheme.

    One of them is the parameter regarding the hotkeys in the menus (the "underlined" character on most of the menu options, showing you what key you can press in order to access that option faster than by moving to it with the arrow keys). This color pair is called " menuhot ". I changed it from

    menuhot=yellow,cyan:\

    into

    menuhot=yellow,default:\

    Another thing which might bother you is the color of the line in the panel you're in when you've "selected all" files (when you've pressed the "*" key). This parameter is called " markselect ". I changed it from

    markselect=yellow,cyan:\

    into

    markselect=white,green:\

    The color pair of the selected buttons in dialogs is called " dfocus ". I changed mine from

    dfocus=black,cyan:\

    into

    dfocus=black,green:\

    In the "focused" buttons or options, the underlined character is called " dhotfocus ". I changed mine from

    dhotfocus=blue,cyan:\

    into

    dhotfocus=brightgreen,green:\

    since the background color was already green, after I modified the " dfocus " color pair.

    The other buttons or options in the dialogs which have hotkeys assigned to them, but which are not "focused" (the buttons/options that you're not located on at a given moment) are still displayed in blue on a light gray background. This color pair is referred to as " dhotnormal ". Since the blue looks a bit odd there, I changed

    dhotnormal=blue,lightgray:\

    into

    dhotnormal=brightgreen,default:\

    Well, this is nice, in window titles and on normal (unfocused) hotkeys I get the transparent background. The problem now is that the rest of the dialog window is still light gray. To change this (to make the window transparent as well), you only need to alter the " dnormal " color pair, such as changing it from

    dnormal=black,lightgray:\

    into

    dnormal=white,default:\

    You may notice that the input fields stay cyan, as well; you find these fields in quite a lot of dialog boxes. To alter this, I changed

    input=black,cyan:\

    into

    input=black,green:\

    One thing which I consider useful is to have symbolic links displayed in bright cyan (as in the colored listings in the terminal). So I just changed

    link=lightgray,default:\

    into

    link=brightcyan,default:\

    Now, regarding the rest of the color pairs, I don't really know what they do. However, if at some point after using Midnight Commander more with this new, neat, transparent/green color scheme you'll notice unwanted leftovers, you can try out other changes in the color pairs values, one at a time, until you determine the troublesome one.

    After operating the changes above, my [Colors] section in ~/.mc/ini now looks like this:

    [Colors]
    base_color=lightgray,default:\
    normal=lightgray,default:\
    selected=black,green:\
    marked=yellow,default:\
    markselect=white,green:\
    errors=white,red:\
    menu=lightgray,default:\
    reverse=black,lightgray:\
    dnormal=white,default:\
    dfocus=black,green:\
    dhotnormal=brightgreen,default:\
    dhotfocus=brightgreen,green:\
    viewunderline=brightred,default:\
    menuhot=yellow,default:\
    menusel=white,black:\
    menuhotsel=yellow,black:\
    helpnormal=black,lightgray:\
    helpitalic=red,lightgray:\
    helpbold=blue,lightgray:\
    helplink=black,cyan:\
    helpslink=yellow,default:\
    gauge=white,black:\
    input=black,green:\
    directory=white,default:\
    executable=brightgreen,default:\
    link=brightcyan,default:\
    stalelink=brightred,default:\
    device=brightmagenta,default:\
    core=red,default:\
    special=black,default:\
    editnormal=lightgray,default:\
    editbold=yellow,default:\
    editmarked=black,cyan:\
    errdhotnormal=yellow,red:\
    errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    I need to direct you to the " IMPORTANT NOTE " above. The final [Colors] section above is written like this - one pair on each row, followed by a backslash - for clarity's sake. The actual final [Colors] section in your ~/.mc/ini file will have to be a one-liner, with no blanks and no backslashes. So it will probably look similar to this:

    base_color=lightgray,default:normal=lightgray,default:selected=black,green:marked=yellow,default:markselect=white,green:errors=white,red:menu=lightgray,default:reverse=black,lightgray:dnormal=white,default:dfocus=black,green:dhotnormal=brightgreen,default:dhotfocus=brightgreen,green:viewunderline=brightred,default:menuhot=yellow,default:menusel=white,black:menuhotsel=yellow,black:helpnormal=black,lightgray:helpitalic=red,lightgray:helpbold=blue,lightgray:helplink=black,cyan:helpslink=yellow,default:gauge=white,black:input=black,green:directory=white,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=brightcyan,default:stalelink=brightred,default:device=brightmagenta,default:core=red,default:special=black,default:editnormal=lightgray,default:editbold=yellow,default:editmarked=black,cyan:errdhotnormal=yellow,red:errdhotfocus=yellow,lightgray

    Now, the next time you start mc , the new color scheme will take effect.

    As a bonus, here's a picture of how my Midnight Commander looks like, with this new "skin" on:

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    [Aug 10, 2019] Midnight Commander colors and themes

    Aug 10, 2019 | ajnasz.hu

    Koszti Lajos Midnight Commander is the most pupular file manager on unix like systems. It's fast and it has all features what you need. But it's only blue and we know, that everyone loves the eyecandy, everyone likes customizing his/her own desktop. But is there any way to custimize the mc ?
    Yes, and I try to show you, how can you create your theme .

    You can change the Midnight Commander colors if you edit the ~/.mc/ini file, where you have to add a new section, named [Colors] . You should define the new colors in this section, for example:

    [Colors] base_color=lightgray,green:normal=green,default:selected=white,gray ...

    As you see, it has a simple syntax:

    <keyword>=<foregroundcolor>,<backgroundcolor>:<keyword>= ...

    The colors are optional, so you can use this:

    [Colors] base_color=lightgray,green:normal=green:selected=,gray ...

    It's not the exactly the same as the first version!

    Fine, you can change some colors of the filemanager, but which are the keywords? These are:

    And which are the colors? I don't know all, but here are some of them:
    white, gray, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan, red, brown, birghtgreen, brightblue, brightmagenta, brightcyan, brightred, default

    Here is the config, what I use:

    [Colors] base_color=lightgray,green:normal=green,default:selected=white,gray:marked=yellow,default:markselect=yellow,gray:directory=blue,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=cyan,default:device=brightmagenta,default:special=lightgray,default:errors=red,default:reverse=green,default:gauge=green,default:input=white,gray:dnormal=green,gray:dfocus=brightgreen,gray:dhotnormal=cyan,gray:dhotfocus=brightcyan,gray:menu=green,default:menuhot=cyan,default:menusel=green,gray:menuhotsel=cyan,default:helpnormal=cyan,default:editnormal=green,default:editbold=blue,default:editmarked=gray,blue:stalelink=red,default

    Screenshot about my redesigned Midnight Commander

    On the screenshot you can see, that the directory color is blue, the files are green, the executable files are birghtgreen and the selected line is white on a gray background.

    And another one, what I use recently:

    [Colors] base_color=lightgray,blue:normal=blue,default:selected=white,brightblue:marked=yellow,default:markselect=yellow,gray:directory=brightblue,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=cyan,default:device=brightmagenta,default:special=lightgray,default:errors=red,default:reverse=green,default:gauge=green,default:input=white,gray:dnormal=green,gray:dfocus=brightgreen,gray:dhotnormal=cyan,gray:dhotfocus=brightcyan,gray:menu=green,default:menuhot=cyan,default:menusel=green,gray:menuhotsel=cyan,default:helpnormal=cyan,default:editnormal=green,default:editbold=blue,default:editmarked=gray,blue:stalelink=red,default

    Screenshot about my redesigned Midnight Commander

    And here is a small shell script, which will help for you to test your new theme:

    #!/bin/sh mc --colors normal=green,default:selected=brightmagenta,gray:marked=yellow,default:markselect=yellow,gray:directory=blue,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=cyan,default:device=brightmagenta,default:special=lightgray,default:errors=red,default:reverse=green,default:gauge=green,default:input=white,gray:dnormal=green,gray:dfocus=brightgreen,gray:dhotnormal=cyan,gray:dhotfocus=brightcyan,gray:menu=green,default:menuhot=cyan,default:menusel=green,gray:menuhotsel=cyan,default:helpnormal=cyan,default:editnormal=green,default:editbold=blue,default:editmarked=gray,blue:stalelink=red,default

    Download the shell script to make your own mc theme

    Save it as mccolortest.sh, make it executable with the chmod +x mccolortest.sh command, and run it with the ./mccolortest.sh command. If you want to change a color, just edit this file. When you done, copy the colors and paste it below the [Colors] section in the ~/.mc/ini . If it doesn't exists, make it yourself.

    For more information of the mc redesigning check its manual page .


    Mauricio2 hónapja ,

    Awesome!
    Thank you for your clear explanation.

    Anonymous • 6 éve ,

    Thank you for theme. I tried your last theme and it is exactly what I was searching for.

    Anonymous • 6 éve ,

    Also, in 4.8.3 here, I copied the first example scheme line and my colors are different. I can't even set the background of the select bar to gray (or "grey"): it gets replaced with black. Also, the panel headings remain blue here, unlike the (first) screenshot, and I can see no corresponding tag in the line anyway.

    Good intro, regardless. Someone should post a pointer to a more up-to-date one, though, as Google seems to find this old thread within the top few hits. Király! ;)

    --lunakid

    Ajnasz Anonymous6 éve ,

    The colors are depends on the color settings of your terminal. I don't have those settings anymore which was when I posted this article, but here is my current. If I'm right, it's similar to that. Put it into your .Xdefaults

    *background: #000000
    *foreground: #EEEEEC
    
    ! Default
    ! 0: black
    *color0: #1C1C1C
    *color8: #333333
    ! 1: red
    *color1: #C14242
    *color9: #EF2929
    ! 2: green
    *color2: #6AA037
    *color10: #9DCF70
    ! 3: yellow
    *color3: #CFAB2F
    *color11: #FCDA4F
    ! 4: blue
    *color4: #2D578A
    *color12: #729FCF
    ! 5: magenta
    *color5: #A85EB4
    *color13: #AD7FA8
    ! 6: cyan
    *color6: #2F8D8F
    *color14: #34E2E2
    ! 7: white
    *color7: #D3D7CF
    *color15: #EEEEEC
    
    Anonymous • 7 éve ,

    Now ~/.mc dir is ignored. Now is ~/.config/mc ;)

    Anonymous • 10 éve ,

    Midnight Commander supports skins starting from 4.7.0-pre3 version. You can download a skin with black as a main color from here:
    http://zool.in.ua/software/bluemoon/

    Anonymous • 10 éve ,

    I am using MC on my router ASUS WL-500GP and I am developing php scripts on it. but as I see MC in openwrt (kmaikaze 8.09) does not use syntax-highlighting and it is very unconfortable.
    Do you know how could I turn it on? I have already downloaded php.syntax file and put it into /usr/share/syntax dir but it does not seem to work. is it possible that some support is not compiled into my version or the syntax file must be compiled to another format?
    Br Zé.

    Anonymous Anonymous10 éve ,

    I found it. in ~/.mc/cedit/Syntax must be this:
    file ..\*\\.(php|PHP)$ PHP\sFile
    include php.syntax

    and in the same dir php.syntax file must be placed. (copied out from a source distrib)

    Anonymous • 10 éve ,

    hei ajnasz, your color theme so very nice, keep my eye on my pc longer than usual. Well, i don't have much time to do more explore with this tricks. I think your taste so cool. If you have any kind of theme, i should be try it. :-)

    Regards,

    Dedi

    Anonymous • 10 éve ,

    Any chance to change the color of the files by extension?

    Anonymous Anonymous10 éve ,

    Midnight Commander supports this starting from 4.7.0-pre3 version.

    Ajnasz Anonymous10 éve ,

    I didn't find anything about it. By the way, since the extension doesn't determinate the file type in UNIX like systems, it wouldn't make any sense to do it.

    Anonymous Ajnasz9 éve ,

    Don't be silly. Mp3 is just music, txt is text, doc is document. The only thing, which is not exactly determinable is the executables, but whatever, it has +x flag.

    Anonymous • 11 éve ,

    Also, you should know that most modern terminal applications allow you to redefine the exact shade of those 16 colors.

    Some of them (such as the Gnome or KDE terminals) may have a place under their preferences where you can redefine the colors.

    Older terminals, such as aterm, use ~/.Xdefaults for this. You can edit that file and add lines like this: "aterm*color1: OrangeRed" (without the quotes). What I've done with that is tell aterm that the "color1" (which was red) should now be "OrangeRed". See /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt for valid color names. You can use *color0 through *color15. So when you'll say "red" in MC's ini file, and if you use aterm, it will get replaced by color1 in ~/.Xdefaults and changed to OrangeRed. (Sorry, I don't remember the mappings between the names used by MC and 0-15 in Xdefaults by heart.)

    Anonymous • 12 éve ,

    On the same subject:
    http://www.zagura.ro/index....

    [Aug 10, 2019] Midnight Commander (mc) convenient hard links creation from user menu "

    Notable quotes:
    "... You can create hard links and symbolic links using C-x l and C-x s keyboard shortcuts. However, these two shortcuts invoke two completely different dialogs. ..."
    "... he had also uploaded a sample mc user menu script ( local copy ), which works wonderfully! ..."
    Dec 03, 2015 | bogdan.org.ua

    Midnight Commander (mc): convenient hard links creation from user menu

    3rd December 2015

    Midnight Commander is a convenient two-panel file manager with tons of features.

    You can create hard links and symbolic links using C-x l and C-x s keyboard shortcuts. However, these two shortcuts invoke two completely different dialogs.

    While for C-x s you get 2 pre-populated fields (path to the existing file, and path to the link – which is pre-populated with your opposite file panel path plus the name of the file under cursor; simply try it to see what I mean), for C-x l you only get 1 empty field: path of the hard link to create for a file under cursor. Symlink's behaviour would be much more convenient

    Fortunately, a good man called Wiseman1024 created a feature request in the MC's bug tracker 6 years ago. Not only had he done so, but he had also uploaded a sample mc user menu script ( local copy ), which works wonderfully! You can select multiple files, then F2 l (lower-case L), and hard-links to your selected files (or a file under cursor) will be created in the opposite file panel. Great, thank you Wiseman1024 !

    Word of warning: you must know what hard links are and what their limitations are before using this menu script. You also must check and understand the user menu code before adding it to your mc (by F9 C m u , and then pasting the script from the file).

    Word of hope: 4 years ago Wiseman's feature request was assigned to Future Releases version, so a more convenient C-x l will (sooner or later) become the part of mc. Hopefully

    [Jul 30, 2019] The difference between tar and tar.gz archives

    With tar.gz to extract a file archiver first creates an intermediary tarball x.tar file from x.tar.gz by uncompressing the whole archive then unpack requested files from this intermediary tarball. In tar.gz archive is large unpacking can take several hours or even days.
    Jul 30, 2019 | askubuntu.com

    [Jul 28, 2019] command line - How do I extract a specific file from a tar archive - Ask Ubuntu

    Jul 28, 2019 | askubuntu.com

    CMCDragonkai, Jun 3, 2016 at 13:04

    1. Using the Command-line tar

    Yes, just give the full stored path of the file after the tarball name.

    Example: suppose you want file etc/apt/sources.list from etc.tar :

    tar -xf etc.tar etc/apt/sources.list

    Will extract sources.list and create directories etc/apt under the current directory.

    2. Extract it with the Archive Manager

    Open the tar in Archive Manager from Nautilus, go down into the folder hierarchy to find the file you need, and extract it.

    3. Using Nautilus/Archive-Mounter

    Right-click the tar in Nautilus, and select Open with ArchiveMounter.

    The tar will now appear similar to a removable drive on the left, and you can explore/navigate it like a normal drive and drag/copy/paste any file(s) you need to any destination.

    [Jul 28, 2019] iso - midnight commander rules for accessing archives through VFS - Unix Linux Stack Exchange

    Jul 28, 2019 | unix.stackexchange.com

    ,

    Midnight Commander uses virtual filesystem ( VFS ) for displying files, such as contents of a .tar.gz archive, or of .iso image. This is configured in mc.ext with rules such as this one ( Open is Enter , View is F3 ):
    regex/\.([iI][sS][oO])$
        Open=%cd %p/iso9660://
        View=%view{ascii} isoinfo -d -i %f
    

    When I press Enter on an .iso file, mc will open the .iso and I can browse individual files. This is very useful.

    Now my question: I have also files which are disk images, i.e. created with pv /dev/sda1 > sda1.img

    I would like mc to "browse" the files inside these images in the same fashion as .iso .

    Is this possible ? How would such rule look like ?

    [Jul 28, 2019] Use Midnight Commander like a pro

    Jul 28, 2019 | klimer.eu

    May 1, 2015

    If you've used an *nix system, at some point you've stumbled upon Midnight Commander , a file manager based on the venerable Norton Commander. You're probably familiar with the basic operations ( F5 for copying, F6 for moving, F8 for deleting, etc.) and how to switch panels (ummm, the Tab key). But mc offers so much more than that. This article aims to show all the useful (YMMV) shortcuts and functionalities that are often overlooked. Most of them can be accessed using the menu ( F9 ), but who has the time to do that?

    Before we get started, let's establish some facts. This article was written and tested on the following software:

    Oh, and make sure you're running a modern and UTF-8 friendly terminal - for example, rxvt-unicode.

    Hold your horses

    There's actually one thing I'd recommend doing before you run mc . mc has the ability to exit to its current directory. Meaning, you can navigate the filesystem using mc (sometimes it's easier than cd ing into that one directory buried deep down somewhere ) and when you quit mc ( F10 ), your shell will automagically cd to that directory. This is done thanks to the mc-wrapper script that should be bundled with your installation of mc . The exact location is dependent on your distribution - in mine (Gentoo) it's /usr/libexec/mc/ , in Ubuntu supposedly it's in /usr/share/mc/bin/ . Once found, modify your ~/.bashrc :

    alias mc='. /usr/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh'
    

    Restart your shell, launch mc , change to another directory, exit and your shell should be set to that new directory.

    Selecting files Accessing the shell Internal viewer ( F3 ) and editor ( F4 ) Panels Searching files Common actions Virtual File System (VFS)

    mc has a concept known as Virtual File System. Try "entering" an archive ( *.tar.gz , *.rpm or even *.jar ) - you'll be able to browse the contents of the archive like a normal folder, without unpacking it first. You extract selected files from the archive by just copying them to the other panel. Bonus points: try "entering" a *.patch file.

    This concept is even more powerful when you realize that remote locations can be viewed the same way. A quick way to browse an FTP location is to just cd to it: cd ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo (first Gentoo FTP mirror I found). You'll be able to interact with files as you normally do. To exit this remote location, cd to a local directory. Just typing cd will suffice as it will take you to your home directory.

    VFS works for SFTP and Samba shares too. Check the manpages for more information on how to specify user/pass, etc.

    Useful options Bonus assignments

    Well, that was a lot to take in. Of course, this list is not complete (that's what man mc is there for), but I've selected the commands and functionalities that are the most useful to me . Embrace the ones you find useful, forget the rest and learn about the other ones I've missed!

    [Jul 28, 2019] How to Use Midnight Commander, a Visual File Manager

    Jul 28, 2019 | www.linode.com
    1. Another tool that can save you time is Midnight Commander's user menu. Go back to /tmp/test where you created nine files. Press F2 and bring up the user menu. Select Compress the current subdirectory (tar.gz) . After you choose the name for the archive, this will be created in /tmp (one level up from the directory being compressed). If you highlight the .tar.gz file and press ENTER you'll notice it will open like a regular directory. This allows you to browse archives and extract files by simply copying them ( F5 ) to the opposite panel's working directory.

      Midnight Commander User Menu

    2. To find out the size of a directory (actually, the size of all the files it contains), highlight the directory and then press CTRL+SPACE .
    3. To search, go up in your directory tree until you reach the top level, / , called root directory. Now press F9 , then c , followed by f . After the Find File dialog opens, type *.gz . This will find any accessible gzip archive on the system. In the results dialog, press l (L) for Panelize . All the results will be fed to one of your panels so you can easily browse, copy, view and so on. If you enter a directory from that list, you lose the list of found files, but you can easily return to it with F9 , l (L) then z (to select Panelize from the Left menu).

      Midnight Commander - Find File Dialog

    4. Managing files is not always done locally. Midnight Commander also supports accessing remote filesystems through SSH's Secure File Transfer Protocol, SFTP . This way you can easily transfer files between servers.

      Press F9 , followed by l (L), then select the SFTP link menu entry. In the dialog box titled SFTP to machine enter sftp://[email protected] . Replace example with the username you have created on the remote machine and 203.0.113.1 with the IP address of your server. This will work only if the server at the other end accepts password logins. If you're logging in with SSH keys, then you'll first need to create and/or edit ~/.ssh/config . It could look something like this:

      ~/.ssh/config
      1
      2
      3
      4
      5
      
      Host sftp_server
          HostName 203.0.113.1
          Port 22
          User your_user
          IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
      

      You can choose whatever you want as the Host value, it's only an identifier. IdentityFile is the path to your private SSH key.

      After the config file is setup, access your SFTP server by typing the identifier value you set after Host in the SFTP to machine dialog. In this example, enter sftp_server .

    [Jul 28, 2019] Bartosz Kosarzycki's blog Midnight Commander how to compress a file-directory; Make a tar archive with midnight commander

    Jul 28, 2019 | kosiara87.blogspot.com

    Midnight Commander how to compress a file/directory; Make a tar archive with midnight commander

    To compress a file in Midnight Commader (e.g. to make a tar.gz archive) navigate to the directory you want to pack and press 'F2'. This will bring up the 'User menu'. Choose the option 'Compress the current subdirectory'. This will compress the WHOLE directory you're currently in - not the highlighted directory.

    [Feb 04, 2019] Ticket 3745 (Integration mc with mc2(Lua))

    This ticket is from2016...
    Dec 01, 2020 | midnight-commander.org
    Ticket #3745 (closed enhancement: invalid)

    Opened 2 years ago

    Last modified 2 years ago Integration mc with mc2(Lua)

    Description I think that it is necessary that code base mc and mc2 correspond each other. mooffie? can you check that patches from andrew_b easy merged with mc2 and if some patch conflict with mc2 code hold this changes by writing about in corresponding ticket. zaytsev can you help automate this( continues integration, travis and so on). Sorry, but some words in Russian:

    Ребята, я не пытаюсь давать ЦУ, Вы делаете классную работу. Просто яхотел обратить внимание, что Муфья пытается поддерживать свой код в актуальном состоянии, но видя как у него возникают проблемы на ровном месте боюсь энтузиазм у него может пропасть.

    Change History comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by zaytsev-work

    ​ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2016-February/msg00021.html

    I have asked what plans does mooffie have for mc 2 sometime ago and never got an answer. Note that I totally don't blame him for that. Everyone here is working at their own pace. Sometimes I disappear for weeks or months, because I can't get a spare 5 minutes not even speaking of several hours due to the non-mc related workload. I hope that one day we'll figure out the way towards merging it, and eventually get it done.

    In the mean time, he's working together with us by offering extremely important and well-prepared contributions, which are a pleasure to deal with and we are integrating them as fast as we can, so it's not like we are at war and not talking to each other.

    Anyways, creating random noise in the ticket tracking system will not help to advance your cause. The only way to influence the process is to invest serious amount of time in the development.

    [Jan 29, 2019] mc2 is the first version of Midnight commander that supports LUA by mooffie

    Highly recommended!
    That was three years ago. No progress so far in merging it with mainstream version. Sad but typical...
    Links are now broken as the site was migrated to www.geek.co.il. Valid link is Getting started
    Oct 15, 2015 | n2.nabble.com

    [ANN] mc^2 11 posts

    mc^2 is a fork of Midnight Commander with Lua support:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/

    ...but let's skip the verbiage and go directly to the screenshots:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/SCREENSHOTS.md.html

    Now, I assume most of you here aren't users of MC.

    So I won't bore you with description of how Lua makes MC a better file-manager. Instead, I'll just list some details that may interest
    any developer who works on extending some application.

    And, as you'll shortly see, you may find mc^2 useful even if you aren't a user of MC!

    So, some interesting details:

    * Programmer Goodies

    - You can restart the Lua system from within MC.

    - Since MC has a built-in editor, you can edit Lua code right there and restart Lua. So it's somewhat like a live IDE:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/game.png

    - It comes with programmer utilities: regular expressions; global scope protected by default; good pretty printer for Lua tables; calculator where you can type Lua expressions; the editor can "lint" Lua code (and flag uses of global variables).

    - It installs a /usr/bin/mcscript executable letting you use all the goodies from "outside" MC:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/60-standalone.md.html

    * User Interface programming (UI)

    - You can program a UI (user interface) very easily. The API is fun
    yet powerful. It has some DOM/JavaScript borrowings in it: you can
    attach functions to events like on_click, on_change, etc. The API
    uses "properties", so your code tends to be short and readable:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/40-user-interface.md.html

    - The UI has a "canvas" object letting you draw your own stuff. The
    system is so fast you can program arcade games. Pacman, Tetris,
    Digger, whatever:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/classes/ui.Canvas.html

    Need timers in your game? You've got them:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/modules/timer.html

    - This UI API is an ideal replacement for utilities like dialog(1).
    You can write complex frontends to command-line tools with ease:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/frontend-scanimage.png

    - Thanks to the aforementioned /usr/bin/mcscript, you can run your
    games/frontends from "outside" MC:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/standalone-game.png

    * Misc

    - You can compile it against Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, or LuaJIT.

    - Extensive documentation.

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re: customize columns in single panel view

    Jun 12, 2017 | mail.gnome.org
    On 6/12/17, Karel <lists vcomp ch> wrote:
    Hello,
    
    Is it possible to customize the columns in the single panel view ?
    
    For my default (two panel) view, I have customized it using:
    
     -> Listing Mode
       (*) User defined:
          half type name | size:15 | mtime
    
    however, when I switch to the single panel view, there are different
    columns (obviously):
    
      Permission   Nl   Owner   Group   Size   Modify time   Name
    
    For instance, I need to change the width of "Size" to 15.
    
    No, you can't change the format of the "Long" listing-mode.
    
    (You can make the "User defined" listing-mode display in one panel (by
    changing "half" to "full"), but this is not what you want.)
    
    So, you have two options:
    
    (1) Modify the source code (search panel.c for "full perm space" and
    tweak it); or:
    
    (2) Use mc^2. It allows you to do this. (It already comes with a
    snippet that enlarges the "Size" field a bit so there'd be room for
    the commas (or other locale-dependent formatting) it adds. This makes
    reading long numbers much easier.)
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re- Help- meaning of the panelize command in left-right menus

    Feb 17, 2017 | mail.gnome.org


    On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:25:22PM +1300, William Kimber wrote:
    Briefly,  if you do a search over several directories you can put all those
    files into a single panel. Not withstanding that they are from different
    directories.
    
    I'm not sure I understand what you mean here; anyway I noticed that if you do a
    search using the "Find file" (M-?) command, choose "Panelize" (at the bottom
    of the "Find File" popup window), then change to some other directory (thus
    exiting from panelized mode), if you now choose Left -> Panelize, you can recall
    the panelized view of the last "Find file" results. Is this what you mean?
    
    However this seems to work only with panelized results coming from the
    "Find file" command, not with results from the "External panelize" command:
    if I change directory, and then choose Left -> Panelize I get an empty panel.
    Is this a bug?
    
    Cri
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re- Help- meaning of the panelize command in left-right menus

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org

    Re: Help: meaning of the panelize command in left/right menus



    On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:25:22PM +1300, William Kimber wrote:
    
    Briefly,  if you do a search over several directories you can put all those
    files into a single panel. Not withstanding that they are from different
    directories.
    
    I'm not sure I understand what you mean here; anyway I noticed that if you do a
    search using the "Find file" (M-?) command, choose "Panelize" (at the bottom
    of the "Find File" popup window), then change to some other directory (thus
    exiting from panelized mode), if you now choose Left -> Panelize, you can recall
    the panelized view of the last "Find file" results. Is this what you mean?
    
    However this seems to work only with panelized results coming from the
    "Find file" command, not with results from the "External panelize" command:
    if I change directory, and then choose Left -> Panelize I get an empty panel.
    Is this a bug?
    
    Cri
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re- customize columns in single panel view

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org
    On 6/12/17, Karel <lists vcomp ch> wrote:
    
    Hello,
    
    Is it possible to customize the columns in the single panel view ?
    
    For my default (two panel) view, I have customized it using:
    
     -> Listing Mode
       (*) User defined:
          half type name | size:15 | mtime
    
    however, when I switch to the single panel view, there are different
    columns (obviously):
    
      Permission   Nl   Owner   Group   Size   Modify time   Name
    
    For instance, I need to change the width of "Size" to 15.
    
    No, you can't change the format of the "Long" listing-mode.
    
    (You can make the "User defined" listing-mode display in one panel (by
    changing "half" to "full"), but this is not what you want.)
    
    So, you have two options:
    
    (1) Modify the source code (search panel.c for "full perm space" and
    tweak it); or:
    
    (2) Use mc^2. It allows you to do this. (It already comes with a
    snippet that enlarges the "Size" field a bit so there'd be room for
    the commas (or other locale-dependent formatting) it adds. This makes
    reading long numbers much easier.)
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] %f macro in mcedit

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org
    
        
    Hi!
    My mc version:
    $ mc --version
    GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.19
    System: Fedora 24
    
    I just want to tell you that %f macro in mcedit is not correct. It
    contains the current file name that is selected in the panel but not
    the actual file name that is opened in mcedit.
    
    I created the mcedit item to run C++ program:
    += f \.cpp$
    r       Run
        clear
        app_path=/tmp/$(uuidgen)
        if g++ -o $app_path "%f"; then
            $app_path
            rm $app_path
        fi
        echo 'Press any key to exit.'
        read -s -n 1
    
    Imagine that I opened the file a.cpp in mcedit.
    Then I pressed alt+` and switched to panel.
    Then I selected (or even opened in mcedit) the file b.cpp.
    Then I pressed alt+` and switched to mcedit with a.cpp.
    Then I executed the "Run" item from user menu.
    And... The b.cpp will be compiled and run. This is wrong! Why b.cpp???
    I executed "Run" from a.cpp!
    
    I propose you to do the new macros for mcedit.
    
    %opened_file
    - the file name that is opened in current instance of mcedit.
    
    %opened_file_full_path
    - as %opened_file but full path to that file.
    
    I think that %opened_file may be not safe because the current
    directory may be changed in mc panel. So it is better to use
    %opened_file_full_path.
    
    %opened_file_dir
    - full path to directory where %opened_file is.
    
    %save
    - save opened file before executing the menu commands. May be useful
    in some cases. For example I don't want to press F2 every time before
    run changed code.
    
    Thanks for the mc.
    Best regards, Sergiy Vovk.
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re- Setting left and right panel directories at startup

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org

    Re: Setting left and right panel directories at startup



    Sorry, forgot to reply all.
    I said that, personally, I would put ~/Documents in the directory hotlist and get there via C-\.

    On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Keith Roberts < keith karsites net > wrote:

    On 18/03/18 20:14, wwp wrote:

    Hello Keith,

    On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:14:33 +0000 Keith Roberts < keith karsites net > wrote:

    Hi all,

    I found this in /home/keith/.config/mc/panels. ini

    [Dirs]
    current_is_left=true
    other_dir=/home/keith/Document s/

    I'd like mc to open /home/keith/Documents/ in the left panel as well whenever I start mc up, so both panels are showing the /home/keith/Documents/ directory.

    Is there some way to tell mc how to do this please?

    I think you could use: `mc <path> <path>`, for instance:
    `mc /home/keith/Documents/ /tmp`, but of course this requires you to know
    the second path to open in addition to your ~/Documents. Not really
    satisfying?

    Regards,

    Hi wwp,

    Thanks for your suggestion and that seems to work OK - I just start mc with the following command:

    mc ~/Documents

    and both panes are opened at the ~Documents directories now which is fine.

    Kind Regards,

    Keith Roberts

    [Jan 01, 2019] Mc2 by mooffie

    Notable quotes:
    "... Future Releases ..."
    Jan 01, 2019 | midnight-commander.org

    #3745 (Integration mc with mc2(Lua)) – Midnight Commander

    Ticket #3745 (closed enhancement: invalid)

    Opened 2 years ago

    Last modified 2 years ago Integration mc with mc2(Lua)

    Reported by: q19l405n5a Owned by:
    Priority: major Milestone:
    Component: mc-core Version: master
    Keywords: Cc:
    Blocked By: Blocking:
    Branch state: no branch Votes for changeset:
    Description I think that it is necessary that code base mc and mc2 correspond each other. mooffie? can you check that patches from andrew_b easy merged with mc2 and if some patch conflict with mc2 code hold this changes by writing about in corresponding ticket. zaytsev can you help automate this( continues integration, travis and so on). Sorry, but some words in Russian:

    Ребята, я не пытаюсь давать ЦУ, Вы делаете классную работу. Просто яхотел обратить внимание, что Муфья пытается поддерживать свой код в актуальном состоянии, но видя как у него возникают проблемы на ровном месте боюсь энтузиазм у него может пропасть.
    Change History comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by zaytsev-work

    ​ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2016-February/msg00021.html

    I have asked what plans does mooffie have for mc 2 sometime ago and never got an answer. Note that I totally don't blame him for that. Everyone here is working at their own pace. Sometimes I disappear for weeks or months, because I can't get a spare 5 minutes not even speaking of several hours due to the non-mc related workload. I hope that one day we'll figure out the way towards merging it, and eventually get it done.

    In the mean time, he's working together with us by offering extremely important and well-prepared contributions, which are a pleasure to deal with and we are integrating them as fast as we can, so it's not like we are at war and not talking to each other.

    Anyways, creating random noise in the ticket tracking system will not help to advance your cause. The only way to influence the process is to invest serious amount of time in the development.
    comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by zaytsev

    Lua-l - [ANN] mc^2

    Selected post Oct 15, 2015; 12:13pm [ANN] mc^2
    Mooffie 11 posts mc^2 is a fork of Midnight Commander with Lua support:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/

    ...but let's skip the verbiage and go directly to the screenshots:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/SCREENSHOTS.md.html

    Now, I assume most of you here aren't users of MC.

    So I won't bore you with description of how Lua makes MC a better
    file-manager. Instead, I'll just list some details that may interest
    any developer who works on extending some application.

    And, as you'll shortly see, you may find mc^2 useful even if you
    aren't a user of MC!

    So, some interesting details:

    * Programmer Goodies

    - You can restart the Lua system from within MC.

    - Since MC has a built-in editor, you can edit Lua code right there
    and restart Lua. So it's somewhat like a live IDE:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/game.png

    - It comes with programmer utilities: regular expressions; global scope
    protected by default; good pretty printer for Lua tables; calculator
    where you can type Lua expressions; the editor can "lint" Lua code (and
    flag uses of global variables).

    - It installs a /usr/bin/mcscript executable letting you use all the
    goodies from "outside" MC:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/60-standalone.md.html

    * User Interface programming (UI)

    - You can program a UI (user interface) very easily. The API is fun
    yet powerful. It has some DOM/JavaScript borrowings in it: you can
    attach functions to events like on_click, on_change, etc. The API
    uses "properties", so your code tends to be short and readable:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/40-user-interface.md.html

    - The UI has a "canvas" object letting you draw your own stuff. The
    system is so fast you can program arcade games. Pacman, Tetris,
    Digger, whatever:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/classes/ui.Canvas.html

    Need timers in your game? You've got them:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/modules/timer.html

    - This UI API is an ideal replacement for utilities like dialog(1).
    You can write complex frontends to command-line tools with ease:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/frontend-scanimage.png

    - Thanks to the aforementioned /usr/bin/mcscript, you can run your
    games/frontends from "outside" MC:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/standalone-game.png

    * Misc

    - You can compile it against Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, or LuaJIT.

    - Extensive documentation.

    [Jan 01, 2019] mc - How can I set the default (user defined) listing mode in Midnight Commander- - Unix Linux Stack Exchange

    Jan 01, 2019 | unix.stackexchange.com

    Ask Question 0

    papaiatis ,Jul 14, 2016 at 11:51

    I defined my own listing mode and I'd like to make it permanent so that on the next mc start my defined listing mode will be set. I found no configuration file for mc.

    ,

    You have probably Auto save setup turned off in Options->Configuration menu.

    You can save the configuration manually by Options->Save setup .

    Panels setup is saved to ~/.config/mc/panels.ini .

    [Jan 01, 2019] Lua-l - [ANN] mc^2

    Jan 01, 2019 | n2.nabble.com

    Selected post Oct 15, 2015; 12:13pm [ANN] mc^2

    Mooffie 11 posts mc^2 is a fork of Midnight Commander with Lua support:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/

    ...but let's skip the verbiage and go directly to the screenshots:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/SCREENSHOTS.md.html

    Now, I assume most of you here aren't users of MC.

    So I won't bore you with description of how Lua makes MC a better
    file-manager. Instead, I'll just list some details that may interest
    any developer who works on extending some application.

    And, as you'll shortly see, you may find mc^2 useful even if you
    aren't a user of MC!

    So, some interesting details:

    * Programmer Goodies

    - You can restart the Lua system from within MC.

    - Since MC has a built-in editor, you can edit Lua code right there
    and restart Lua. So it's somewhat like a live IDE:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/game.png

    - It comes with programmer utilities: regular expressions; global scope
    protected by default; good pretty printer for Lua tables; calculator
    where you can type Lua expressions; the editor can "lint" Lua code (and
    flag uses of global variables).

    - It installs a /usr/bin/mcscript executable letting you use all the
    goodies from "outside" MC:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/60-standalone.md.html

    * User Interface programming (UI)

    - You can program a UI (user interface) very easily. The API is fun
    yet powerful. It has some DOM/JavaScript borrowings in it: you can
    attach functions to events like on_click, on_change, etc. The API
    uses "properties", so your code tends to be short and readable:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/guide/40-user-interface.md.html

    - The UI has a "canvas" object letting you draw your own stuff. The
    system is so fast you can program arcade games. Pacman, Tetris,
    Digger, whatever:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/classes/ui.Canvas.html

    Need timers in your game? You've got them:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/modules/timer.html

    - This UI API is an ideal replacement for utilities like dialog(1).
    You can write complex frontends to command-line tools with ease:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/frontend-scanimage.png

    - Thanks to the aforementioned /usr/bin/mcscript, you can run your
    games/frontends from "outside" MC:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/images/screenshots/standalone-game.png

    * Misc

    - You can compile it against Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, or LuaJIT.

    - Extensive documentation.

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re change default configuration

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org
    On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:01:17 +0300 Sergey Naumov via mc-devel wrote:
    
    I'm curious whether there is a way to change default configuration that is
    generated when user invokes mc for the first time?
    
    For example, I want "use_internal_edit" to be true by default instead of
    false for any new user.
    
    In vanilla mc the initial value of use_internal_edit is true. Some distros
    (Debian and some others) change this to false.
    
    If there is a way to do it, then is it possible to just use lines that I
    want to change, not the whole configuration, say
    
    [Midnight-Commander]
    use_internal_edit=true
    
    Before first run, ~/.config/mc/ini doesn't exist.
    If ~/.config/mc/ini doesn't exist, /etc/mc/mc.ini is used.
    If /etc/mc/mc.ini doesn't exist, /usr/share/mc/mc.ini is used.
    You can create one of these files with required default settings set.
    
    Unfortunately, there is no info about /etc/mc/mc.ini in the man page.
    I'll fix that at this weekend.
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re does mc support sftp

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org

    Yes, it does, if it has been compiled accordingly.
    
    http://www.linux-databook.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MC-02.jpeg
    
    On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
    
    
    Hello,
    
    I need to connect to server where I don't have shell access (no ssh)
    
    the server only allows sftp. I can connect with winscp, for instance.
    
    does mc support sftp  as well ?
    
    thanks,
    _______________________________________________
    mc mailing list
    https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
    
    
    --
    Sincerely yours,
    Yury V. Zaytsev
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] Re: Ctrl+J in mc

    Jan 01, 2019 | mail.gnome.org

    , Thomas Zajic

    * Ivan Pizhenko via mc-devel, 28.10.18 21:52
    
    
    Hi, I'm wondering why following happens:
    In Ubuntu and FreeBSD, when I am pressing Ctrl+J in MC, it puts name
    of file on which file cursor is currently on. But this doesn't work in
    CentOS and RHEL.
    How to fix that in CentOS and RHEL?
    Ivan.
    
    Never heard about Ctrl+j, I always used Alt+Enter for that purpose.
    Alt+a does the same thing for the path, BTW (just in case you didn't
    know). :-)
    
    HTH,
    Thomas
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    https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
    
    

    [Jan 01, 2019] IBM Systems Magazine - All Hail the Midnight Commander! by Jesse Gorzinski

    Notable quotes:
    "... Sometimes, though, a tool is just too fun to pass up; such is the case for Midnight Commander! Of course, we also had numerous requests for it, and that helped, too! Today, let's explore this useful utility. ..."
    Nov 27, 2018 | ibmsystemsmag.com

    Quite often, I'm asked how open source deliveries are prioritized at IBM. The answer isn't simple. Even after we estimate the cost of a project, there are many factors to consider. For instance, does it enable a specific solution to run? Does it expand a programming language's abilities? Is it highly-requested by the community or vendors?

    Sometimes, though, a tool is just too fun to pass up; such is the case for Midnight Commander! Of course, we also had numerous requests for it, and that helped, too! Today, let's explore this useful utility.

    ... ... ...

    Getting Started
    Installing Midnight Commander is easy. Once you have the yum package manager , use it to install the 'mc' package.

    In order for the interface to display properly, you'll want to set the LC_ALL environment variable to a UTF-8 locale. For instance, "EN_US.UTF-8" would work just fine. You can have this done automatically by putting the following lines in your $HOME/.profile file (or $HOME/.bash_profile):

    LC_ALL=EN_US.UTF-8
    export LC_ALL

    If you haven't done so already, you might want to also make sure the PATH environment variable is set up to use the new open source tools .

    Once that's done, you can run 'mc -c' from your SSH terminal . (You didn't expect this to work from QSH, did you?) If you didn't set up your environment variables, you can just run 'LC_ALL=EN_US.UTF-8 /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/mc -c' instead. I recommend the '-c' option because it enables colors.

    A Community Effort

    As with many things open source, IBM was not the only contributor. In this particular case, a "tip of the hat" goes to Jack Woehr. You may remember Jack as the creator of Ublu , an open source programming language for IBM i. He also hosts his own RPM repository with lynx, a terminal-based web browser (perhaps a future topic?). The initial port of Midnight Commander was collaboratively done with work from both parties. Jack also helped with quality assurance and worked with project owners to upstream all code changes. In fact, the main code stream for Midnight Commander can now be built for IBM i with no modifications.

    Now that we've delivered hundreds of open source packages, it seems like there's something for everybody. This seems like one of those tools that is useful for just about anyone. And with a name like "Midnight Commander," how can you go wrong? Try it today!

    [Jan 01, 2019] NEWS-4.8.22 Midnight Commander

    Looks like they fixed sftp problems and it is now usale.
    Jan 01, 2019 | midnight-commander.org
    View all closed tickets for this release Major changes since 4.8.21 Core VFS Editor Viewer Diff viewer Misc Fixes

    [Oct 14, 2018] autojump A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

    Apr 10, 2012 | github.com

    autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.

    Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to. USAGE

    j is a convenience wrapper function around autojump. Any option that can be used with autojump can be used with j and vice versa.

    For more options refer to help:

    autojump --help
    KNOWN ISSUES
    autojump does not support directories that begin with -.
    For bash users, autojump keeps track of directories by modifying $PROMPT_COMMAND. Do not overwrite $PROMPT_COMMAND:
    
    export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"

    Instead append to the end of the existing $PROMPT_COMMAND:

    export PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND ;} history -a"
    REPORTING BUGS

    For any questions or issues please visit:

    https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/issues
    AUTHORS

    autojump was originally written by JoÃ"l Schaerer, and currently maintained by William Ting. More contributors can be found in AUTHORS. COPYRIGHT

    Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html >. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

    [Oct 14, 2018] Jump-Location - A Change Directory (CD) PowerShell Command that reads your mind by Scott Hanselman

    Oct 14, 2018 | www.hanselman.com

    September 18, '14

    There's a lovely little utility called autojump for *nix consoles that makes the 'cd' command very smart. More that just auto-completion, it's a kind of "auto guessing." Hence, autojump. There is some beginning Windows support, but instead I turned to Tim Kellogg's open source PowerShell implementation " Jump-Location ."

    What a joy.

    j this and j that

    First, I was like "jump-location?" I'm not going to type that. But then, of course, duh. Aliases.

    Jump-Location is aliased to just j , which means I can now do awesome stuff like this:

    c:\> j sc
    c:\users\scott> j g
    c:\users\AppData\Local\GitHub> j des
    c:\users\scott\Desktop>
    

    But there's more. It's actually watching how long you are in a directory and keeping stats. You can see the weighted stats with "jumpstat" and the "database" is just a text file in ~\jump-location.txt.

    If "j d" isn't enough to get me into C:\GitHub\DisProject then I can do "j g d" and I'm there. It's amazing.

    Installation is easy, and I hope it gets on PsGet soon for even easier installation. Just unzip, unblock, ensure that your PowerShell execution policy allows scripts, and run ./install.ps1.

    NOTE : Don't run install from your desktop, or a temp folder. Put the Jump-Location folder somewhere where it will live, and it's going to add a line like this to your user profile ("C:\Users\YOU\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1") like this, so you'll want to install from a final path:

    Import-Module 'C:\Users\Scott\Dropbox\utils\Jump-Location-0.5.1\Jump.Location.psd1'
    

    I'm excited about this great little utility. Head over to https://github.com/tkellogg/Jump-Location and STAR it in GitHub, and give it a go! Tim, the author, is on Twitter at @kellogh . Other contributors include Sergey Vorobyev .

    [Oct 14, 2018] Port of NCD (Norton Change Directory) for debian-ubuntu

    Oct 14, 2018 | www.linuxquestions.org
    Old 05-02-2017, 04:19 AM # 1
    deepcore LQ Newbie
    Registered: Dec 2005 Location: Denmark, Copenhagen Distribution: Ubuntu Ultimate v.6 Posts: 10
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    Port of NCD (Norton Change Directory) for debian/ubuntu

    [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Does anyone know of a current port of ncd (Norton Change Directory) for Debian/Ubuntu systems? Preferably accessible through the package manager so it can easily be added to newly installed systems.

    My best effords to find a similar utility has led me to:

    https://github.com/KellyLSB/KCD
    http://kcd.sourceforge.net/
    https://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/

    ... but as stated i would like to have it from packagemanager.

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    Old 05-02-2017, 04:48 AM # 2
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    I don't know what do you really need, but for example zsh has a built-in cd command which has a lot of features (although a bit different).
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    Old 05-02-2017, 05:26 AM # 3
    michaelk Moderator
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    What about wcd? It should be available in the debian/Ubuntu repositories.

    https://linux.die.net/man/1/wcd

    [Oct 10, 2018] Midnight Commander tutorial by Nikolai Bezroukov

    [Jun 18, 2018] Copy and paste text in midnight commander (MC) via putty in Linux

    Notable quotes:
    "... IF you're using putty in either Xorg or Windows (i.e terminal within a gui) , it's possible to use the "conventional" right-click copy/paste behavior while in mc. Hold the shift key while you mark/copy. ..."
    "... Putty has ability to copy-paste. In mcedit, hold Shift and select by mouse ..."
    Jun 18, 2018 | superuser.com

    Den ,Mar 1, 2015 at 22:50

    I use Midnight Commander (MC) editor over putty to edit files

    I want to know how to copy text from one file, close it then open another file and paste it?

    If it is not possible with Midnight Commander, is there another easy way to copy and paste specific text from different files?

    szkj ,Mar 12, 2015 at 22:40

    I would do it like this:
    1. switch to block selection mode by pressing F3
    2. select a block
    3. switch off block selection mode with F3
    4. press Ctrl+F which will open Save block dialog
    5. press Enter to save it to the default location
    6. open the other file in the editor, and navigate to the target location
    7. press Shift+F5 to open Insert file dialog
    8. press Enter to paste from the default file location (which is same as the one in Save block dialog)

    NOTE: There are other environment related methods, that could be more conventional nowadays, but the above one does not depend on any desktop environment related clipboard, (terminal emulator features, putty, Xorg, etc.). This is a pure mcedit feature which works everywhere.

    Andrejs ,Apr 28, 2016 at 8:13

    To copy: (hold) Shift + Select with mouse (copies to clipboard)

    To paste in windows: Ctrl+V

    To paste in another file in PuTTY/MC: Shift + Ins

    Piotr Dobrogost ,Mar 30, 2017 at 17:32

    If you get unwanted indents in what was pasted then while editing file in Midnight Commander press F9 to show top menu and in Options/Generals menu uncheck Return does autoindent option. Yes, I was happy when I found it too :) – Piotr Dobrogost Mar 30 '17 at 17:32

    mcii-1962 ,May 26, 2015 at 13:17

    IF you're using putty in either Xorg or Windows (i.e terminal within a gui) , it's possible to use the "conventional" right-click copy/paste behavior while in mc. Hold the shift key while you mark/copy.

    Eden ,Feb 15, 2017 at 4:09

    1. Hold down the Shift key, and drag the mouse through the text you want to copy. The text's background will become dark orange.
    2. Release the Shift key and press Shift + Ctrl + c . The text will be copied.
    3. Now you can paste the text to anywhere you want by pressing Shift + Ctrl + v , even to the new page in MC.

    xoid ,Jun 6, 2016 at 6:37

    Putty has ability to copy-paste. In mcedit, hold Shift and select by mouse

    mcii-1962 ,Jun 20, 2016 at 23:01

    LOL - did you actually read the other answers? And your answer is incomplete, you should include what to do with the mouse in order to "select by mouse".
    According to help in MC:

    Ctrl + Insert copies to the mcedit.clip, and Shift + Insert pastes from mcedit.clip.

    It doesn't work for me, by some reason, but by pressing F9 you get a menu, Edit > Copy to clipfile - worked fine.

    [Jun 18, 2018] My Favorite Tool - Midnight Commander by Colin Sauze

    Notable quotes:
    "... "what did I just press and what did it do?" ..."
    "... Underneath it's got lots of powerful features like syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression search and replace, and spell checking. ..."
    "... I use Mcedit for most of my day-to-day text editing, although I do switch to heavier weight GUI-based editors when I need to edit lots of files at once. ..."
    Jun 18, 2018 | software-carpentry.org

    I've always hated the Vi vs Emacs holy war that many Unix users like to wage and I find that both editors have serious shortcomings and definitely aren't something I'd recommend a beginner use. Pico and Nano are certainly easier to use, but they always a feel a bit lacking in features and clunky to me.

    Mcedit runs from the command line but has a colourful GUI-like interface, you can use the mouse if you want, but I generally don't.

    If you're old enough to have used DOS, then it's very reminiscent of the "edit" text editor that was built into MS-DOS 5 and 6, except it's full of powerful features that still make it a good choice in 2018. It has a nice intuitive interface based around the F keys on the keyboard and a pull-down menu which can be accessed by pressing F9 .

    It's really easy to use and you're told about all the most important key combinations on screen and the rest can all be discovered from the menus. I find this far nicer than Vi or Emacs where I have to constantly look up key combinations or press a key by mistake and then have the dreaded "what did I just press and what did it do?" thought.

    Underneath it's got lots of powerful features like syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression search and replace, and spell checking.

    I use Mcedit for most of my day-to-day text editing, although I do switch to heavier weight GUI-based editors when I need to edit lots of files at once. I just wish more people knew about it and then it might be installed by default on more of the shared systems and HPCs that I have to use!

    [Jun 17, 2018] Midnight Commander Guide

    Jun 17, 2018 | www.nawaz.org

    Selecting Text

    images/editmark.png

    3.2.3 Navigation 3.2.4 Replacing Text

    images/editreplace.png

    3.2.5 Saving

    images/editsaveas.png 3.2.6 Syntax Highlighting

    images/edithighlight.png

    3.2.7 More Options 3.2.8 Some Comments about Editing

    [Jun 14, 2018] Changing shortcuts in midnight commander by rride Last Updated 20:01 PM

    Feb 04, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    I haven't found anything on the topic in the Internet. The only line from .mc/ini that looks related to the question is keymap=mc.keymap but I have no idea what to do with it.

    Tags : linux keyboard-shortcuts midnight-commander

    Okiedokie... lets see
    $ man-section mc | head -n20
    mc (1)
    --
     Name
     Usage
     Description
     Options
     Overview
     Mouse support
     Keys
     Redefine hotkey bindings
    

    8th section... is that possible? Lets look

    man mc (scroll,scroll,scroll)

    Redefine hotkey bindings
        Hotkey bindings may be read from external file (keymap-file).  A keymap-
        file is searched on the following algorithm  (to the first one found):
    
         1) command line option -K <keymap> or --keymap=<keymap>
         2) Environment variable MC_KEYMAP
         3) Parameter keymap in section [Midnight-Commander] of config file.
         4) File ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap
         5) File /etc/mc/mc.keymap
         6) File /usr/share/mc/mc.keymap
    

    Bingo!

    cp /etc/mc/mc.keymap ~/.config/mc/
    

    Now edit the key mappings as you like and save ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap when done

    For more info, read the Keys ( man mc ) section and the three sections following that.


    $ cat /home/jaroslav/bin/man-sections 
    #!/bin/sh
    MANPAGER=cat man $@ | grep -E '^^[[1m[A-Z]{3,}'
    

    [Jun 13, 2018] How mc.init is stored

    Jun 13, 2018 | superuser.com

    The configuration is stored in

    $HOME/.config/mc/

    In your case edit the file $HOME/.config/mc/ini . You can check which files are actually read in by midnight-commander using strace :

    strace -e trace=open -o mclog mc
    

    [Jun 13, 2018] Temporary Do Something Else while editing/viewing a file

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.nawaz.org

    [Jun 13, 2018] My Screen is Garbled Up

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.nawaz.org

    [Jun 13, 2018] Find file shows no results

    Jun 13, 2018 | wiki.archlinux.org

    If the Find file dialog (accessible with Alt+? ) shows no results, check the current directory for symbolic links. Find file does not follow symbolic links, so use bind mounts (see mount(8) ) instead, or the External panelize command.

    [Jun 13, 2018] Draft of documentation for Midnight Commander

    Jun 13, 2018 | midnight-commander.org

    Table of content

    1. Introduction
    2. Getting sources
    3. Making and installing?
    4. Ini-options setup?
    5. Usage
    6. Migration to keybindings in 4.8.x series
    7. How to report about bugs
    8. Frequently asked questions

    [Jun 13, 2018] Trash support

    Jun 13, 2018 | wiki.archlinux.org

    Midnight Commander does not support a trash can by default. Using libtrash

    Install the libtrash AUR package, and create an mc alias in the initialization file of your shell (e.g., ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc ):

    alias mc='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtrash.so.3.3 mc'
    

    To apply the changes, reopen your shell session or source the shell initialization file.

    Default settings are defined in /etc/libtrash.conf.sys . You can overwrite these settings per-user in ~/.libtrash , for example:

    TRASH_CAN = .Trash
    INTERCEPT_RENAME = NO
    IGNORE_EXTENSIONS= o;exe;com
    UNCOVER_DIRS=/dev
    

    Now files deleted by Midnight Commander (launched with mc ) will be moved to the ~/.Trash directory.

    Warning:

    See also [2] .

    [Jun 13, 2018] Mcedit is actually a multiwindow editor

    Opening another file in editor will create the second window. You can list windows using F9/Window/List\
    That allows to copy and paste selections to different files while in editor
    Jun 13, 2018 | www.unix.com

    Many people don't know that mc has a multi-window text-editor built-in (eerily disabled by default) with macro capability and all sorts of goodies. run

    mc -e my.txt
    

    to edit directly.

    [Jun 13, 2018] Make both panels display the same directory

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.fredshack.com

    ALT+i. If NOK, try ESC+i

    [Jun 13, 2018] Opening editor in another screen or tmux window

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    by user2252728 Last Updated May 15, 2015 11:14 AM


    The problem

    I'm using tmux and I want MC to open files for editing in another tmux window, so that I can keep browsing files while editing.

    What I've tried

    MC checks if EDITOR variable is set and then interprets it as a program for editing, so if I do export EDITOR=vim then MC will use vim to open files.

    I've tried to build on that:

    function foo () { tmux new-window "vim $1"; }
    export EDITOR=foo
    

    If I do $EDITOR some_file then I get the file open in vim in another tmux windows - exactly what I wanted.

    Sadly, when I try to edit in MC it goes blank for a second and then returns to normal MC window. MC doesn't seem to keep any logs and I don't get any error message.

    The question(s)

    Tags : midnight-commander

    Answers 1
    You are defining a shell function, which is unknown for mc when it is trying to start the editor.

    The correct way is to create a bash script, not a function. Then set EDITOR value to it, for example:

    $ cat ~/myEditor.sh
    #!/bin/sh
    tmux new-window "vim $1"
    
    export EDITOR=~/myEditor.sh
    

    [Jun 13, 2018] Copy and paste text in midnight commander (MC) via putty in Linux

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    I use Midnight Commander (MC) editor over putty to edit files

    I want to know how to copy text from one file, close it then open another file and paste it?

    If it is not possible with Midnight Commander, is there another easy way to copy and paste specific text from different files?


    I would do it like this:
    1. switch to block selection mode by pressing F3
    2. select a block
    3. switch off block selection mode with F3
    4. press Ctrl+F which will open Save block dialog
    5. press Enter to save it to the default location
    6. open the other file in the editor, and navigate to the target location
    7. press Shift+F5 to open Insert file dialog
    8. press Enter to paste from the default file location (which is same as the one in Save block dialog)

    [Jun 13, 2018] How to exclude some pattern when doing a search in MC

    Mar 25, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    In Midnight Commander, is it possible to exclude some directories/patterns/... when doing search? ( M-? ) I'm specifically interested in skipping the .hg subdirectory.


    Answers 1
    In the "[Misc]" section of your ~/.mc/ini file, you can specify the directories you wish to skip in the "find_ignore_dirs" setting.

    To specify multiple directories, use a colon (":") as the delimiter.

    [Jun 13, 2018] Midnight Commander tab completion

    Sep 17, 2011 | superuser.com
    You can get tab-completion by pressing ESC then TAB . You can also get the currently highlighted file/subdir name onto the command line with ESC-ENTER.

    [Jun 13, 2018] mc-wrapper does not exit to MC_PWD directory

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    I recently installed openSUSE 13.1 and set up the mc in typical why by aliasing mc with mc-wrapper.sh to have it exit into the last working directory in mc instance. However this does not seem to be working. I tried to debug the mc-wrapper.sh script - the echo commands.

    MC_USER=`id | sed 's/[^(]*(//;s/).*//'`
    MC_PWD_FILE="${TMPDIR-/tmp}/mc-$MC_USER/mc.pwd.$$"
    /usr/bin/mc -P "$MC_PWD_FILE" "$@"
    
    if test -r "$MC_PWD_FILE"; then
            MC_PWD="`cat "$MC_PWD_FILE"`"
            if test -n "$MC_PWD" && test -d "$MC_PWD"; then
                    echo "will cd in : $MC_PWD"
                    cd $MC_PWD
                    echo $(pwd)
            fi
            unset MC_PWD
    fi
    
    rm -f "$MC_PWD_FILE"
    unset MC_PWD_FILE
    echo $(pwd)
    

    To my surprise, mc-wrapper-sh does change the directory and is in the directory before exiting but back in bash prompt the working directory is the one from which the script was invoked.

    Can it be that some bash settings is required for this to work?

    Tags : linux bash shell midnight-commander

    Answers 1
    Using answer above working solution for bash shell is this:
    alias mc='source /usr/lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh'
    

    OR

    alias mc='. /usr/lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh'
    

    [Jun 13, 2018] How to enable find-as-you-type behavior

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    Alt + S will show the "quick search" in Midnight Commander.

    [Jun 13, 2018] How to expand the command line to the whole screen in MC

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.queryxchange.com

    You can hide the Midnight Commander Window by pressing Ctrl + O . Press Ctrl + O again to return back to Midnight Commander.

    [Jun 13, 2018] MC Tips Tricks

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.fredshack.com

    If MC displays funny characters, make sure the terminal emulator uses UTF8 encoding. Smooth scrolling

    vi ~/.mc/ini (per user) or /etc/mc/mc.ini (system-wide):

    panel_scroll_pages=0

    Make both panels display the same directory

    ALT+i. If NOK, try ESC+i

    Navigate through history

    ESC+y to go back to the previous directory, ESC+u to go the next

    Options > Configuration > Lynx-like motion doesn't go through the navigation history but rather jumps in/out of a directory so the user doesn't have to hit PageUp followed by Enter

    Loop through all items starting with the same letter

    CTRL+s followed by the letter to jump to the first occurence, then keep hitting CTRL+s to loop through the list

    Customize keyboard shortcuts

    Check mc.keymap

    [Jun 13, 2018] MC_HOME allows you to run mc with alternative mc.init

    Notable quotes:
    "... MC_HOME variable can be set to alternative path prior to starting mc. Man pages are not something you can find the answer right away =) ..."
    "... A small drawback of this solution: if you set MC_HOME to a directory different from your usual HOME, mc will ignore the content of your usual ~/.bashrc so, for example, your custom aliases defined in that file won't work anymore. Workaround: add a symlink to your ~/.bashrc into the new MC_HOME directory ..."
    "... at the same time ..."
    Jun 13, 2018 | unix.stackexchange.com

    Tagwint ,Dec 19, 2014 at 16:41

    That turned out to be simpler as one might think. MC_HOME variable can be set to alternative path prior to starting mc. Man pages are not something you can find the answer right away =)

    here's how it works: - usual way

    [jsmith@wstation5 ~]$ mc -F
    Root directory: /home/jsmith
    
    [System data]
    <skipped>
    
    [User data]
        Config directory: /home/jsmith/.config/mc/
        Data directory:   /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/
            skins:          /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/skins/
            extfs.d:        /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
            fish:           /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/fish/
            mcedit macros:  /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
            mcedit external macros: /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
        Cache directory:  /home/jsmith/.cache/mc/
    

    and the alternative way:

    [jsmith@wstation5 ~]$ MC_HOME=/tmp/MCHOME mc -F
    Root directory: /tmp/MCHOME
    
    [System data]
    <skipped>    
    
    [User data]
        Config directory: /tmp/MCHOME/.config/mc/
        Data directory:   /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/
            skins:          /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/skins/
            extfs.d:        /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
            fish:           /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/fish/
            mcedit macros:  /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
            mcedit external macros: /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
        Cache directory:  /tmp/MCHOME/.cache/mc/
    

    Use case of this feature:

    You have to share the same user name on remote server (access can be distinguished by rsa keys) and want to use your favorite mc configuration w/o overwriting it. Concurrent sessions do not interfere each other.

    This works well as a part of sshrc-approach described in https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc

    Cri ,Sep 5, 2016 at 10:26

    A small drawback of this solution: if you set MC_HOME to a directory different from your usual HOME, mc will ignore the content of your usual ~/.bashrc so, for example, your custom aliases defined in that file won't work anymore. Workaround: add a symlink to your ~/.bashrc into the new MC_HOME directoryCri Sep 5 '16 at 10:26

    goldilocks ,Dec 18, 2014 at 16:03

    If you mean, you want to be able to run two instances of mc as the same user at the same time with different config directories, as far as I can tell you can't. The path is hardcoded.

    However, if you mean, you want to be able to switch which config directory is being used, here's an idea (tested, works). You probably want to do it without mc running:

    Hopefully it's clear what's happening there -- this sets a the config directory path as a symlink. Whatever configuration changes you now make and save will be int the one directory. You can then exit and switch_mc two , reverting to the old config, then start mc again, make changes and save them, etc.

    You could get away with removing the killall mc and playing around; the configuration stuff is in the ini file, which is read at start-up (so you can't switch on the fly this way). It's then not touched until exit unless you "Save setup", but at exit it may be overwritten, so the danger here is that you erase something you did earlier or outside of the running instance.

    Tagwint ,Dec 18, 2014 at 16:52

    that works indeed, your idea is pretty clear, thank you for your time However my idea was to be able run differently configured mc's under the same account not interfering each other. I should have specified that in my question. The path to config dir is in fact hardcoded, but it is hardcoded RELATIVELY to user's home dir, that is the value of $HOME, thus changing it before mc start DOES change the config dir location - I've checked that. the drawback is $HOME stays changed as long as mc runs, which could be resolved if mc had a kind of startup hook to put restore to original HOME into – Tagwint Dec 18 '14 at 16:52

    Tagwint ,Dec 18, 2014 at 17:17

    I've extended my original q with 'same time' condition - it did not fit in my prev comment size limitation – Tagwint Dec 18 '14 at 17:17

    [Jun 13, 2018] Editing mc.ini

    Jun 07, 2014 | superuser.com
    mc / mcedit has a config option called auto_save_setup which is enabled by default. This option automatically saves your current setup upon exiting. The problem occurs when you try to edit ~/.config/mc/ini using mcedit . It will overwrite whatever changes you made upon exiting, so you must edit the ~/.config/mc/ini using a different editor such as nano .

    Source: https://linux.die.net/man/1/mc (search for "Auto Save Setup")

    [Jun 13, 2018] Running mc with you own skin

    Jun 13, 2018 | help.ubuntu.com

    put

    export TERM="xterm-256color"

    at the bottom (top, if ineffective) of your ~/.bashrc file. Thus you can load skins as in

    mc -S sand256.ini

    In

    /home/you/.config/mc/ini

    have the lines:

    [Midnight-Commander]
    skin=sand256

    for preset skin. Newer mc version offer to choose a preset skin from within the menu and save it in the above ini file, relieving you of the above manual step.

    Many people don't know that mc has a multi-window text-editor built-in (eerily disabled by default) with macro capability and all sorts of goodies. run

    mc -e my.txt

    to edit directly.

    Be aware that many skins break the special characters for sorting filenames reverse up/down unless one works hard with locale parameters and what not. Few people in the world know how to do that properly. In below screenshot you see "arrowdown n" over the filename list to indicate sort order. In many xterm, you will get ??? instead so you might resort to unskin and go to "default skin" setting with ugly colours.

    The below CTRL-O hotkey starts what mc calls a subshell. If you run mc a second time in a "subshell", mc will not remind you of the CTRL-O hotkey (as if the world only knows 3 hotkeys) but will start mc with no deeper "subshell" iteration possible, unless one modifies the sources.

    [Jun 13, 2018] mcdiff - Internal diff viewer of GNU Midnight Commander

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.systutorials.com

    mcdiff: Internal diff viewer of GNU Midnight Commander. Index of mcdiff man page
    Read mcdiff man page on Linux: $ man 1 mcdiff NAME mcdiff - Internal diff viewer of GNU Midnight Commander. USAGE mcdiff [-bcCdfhstVx?] file1 file2 DESCRIPTION

    mcdiff is a link to mc , the main GNU Midnight Commander executable. Executing GNU Midnight Commander under this name requests starting the internal diff viewer which compares file1 and file2 specified on the command line.

    OPTIONS
    -b
    Force black and white display.
    -c
    Force color mode on terminals where mcdiff defaults to black and white.
    -C <keyword>=<fgcolor>,<bgcolor>,<attributes>:<keyword>= ...
    Specify a different color set. See the Colors section in mc (1) for more information.
    -d
    Disable mouse support.
    -f
    Display the compiled-in search paths for Midnight Commander files.
    -t
    Used only if the code was compiled with S-Lang and terminfo: it makes the Midnight Commander use the value of the TERMCAP variable for the terminal information instead of the information on the system wide terminal database
    -V
    Displays the version of the program.
    -x
    Forces xterm mode. Used when running on xterm-capable terminals (two screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences).
    COLORS The default colors may be changed by appending to the MC_COLOR_TABLE environment variable. Foreground and background colors pairs may be specified for example with:
    MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\
    normal=lightgray,black:\
    selected=black,green"
    
    FILES /usr/share/mc/mc.hlp
    The help file for the program.

    /usr/share/mc/mc.ini

    The default system-wide setup for GNU Midnight Commander, used only if the user's own ~/.config/mc/ini file is missing.

    /usr/share/mc/mc.lib

    Global settings for the Midnight Commander. Settings in this file affect all users, whether they have ~/.config/mc/ini or not.

    ~/.config/mc/ini

    User's own setup. If this file is present, the setup is loaded from here instead of the system-wide startup file.

    [Jun 13, 2018] MC (Midnight Commmander) mc/ini settings file location

    Jun 13, 2018 | unix.stackexchange.com

    UVV ,Oct 13, 2014 at 7:51

    It's in the following file: ~/.config/mc/ini .

    obohovyk ,Oct 13, 2014 at 7:53

    Unfortunately not... – obohovyk Oct 13 '14 at 7:53

    UVV ,Oct 13, 2014 at 8:02

    @alexkowalski then it's ~/.config/mc/iniUVV Oct 13 '14 at 8:02

    obohovyk ,Oct 13, 2014 at 8:41

    Yeah, thanks!!! – obohovyk Oct 13 '14 at 8:41

    ,

    If you have not made any changes, the config file does not yet exist.

    The easy way to change from the default skin:

    1. Start Midnight Commander
      sudo mc
      
    2. F9 , O for Options, or cursor to "Options" and press Enter
    3. A for Appearance, or cursor to Appearance and press Enter

      You will see that default is the current skin.

    4. Press Enter to see the other skin choices
    5. Cursor to the skin you want and select it by pressing Enter
    6. Click OK

    After you do this, the ini file will exist and can be edited, but it is easier to change skins using the method I described.

    [Jun 13, 2018] Hide/view of hidden files

    Sep 17, 2011 | superuser.com

    Something I discovered which I REALLY appreciated was the hide/view of hidden files can be toggled by pressing ALT-. (ALT-PERIOD). Be aware that often the RIGHT ALT key is NOT seen as an ALT key by the system, so you usually need to use Left-ALT-. to toggle this. I forgot about the Right-ALT weirdness and thought I'd broken mc one day. {sigh} Such a blonde...

    Just checked (xev!), I guess the ALT-. toggle is mapped to ALT_L-., and the right ALT key gives an ALT_R keycode... which doesn't match the mc mapping, causing it to not work... now I know why! Hooray!

    [Jun 13, 2018] Loss of output problem

    Sep 17, 2011 | superuser.com
    1) If the panels are active and I issue a command that has a lot of output, it appears to be lost forever.

    i.e., if the panels are visible and I cat something (i.e., cat /proc/cpuinfo), that info is gone forever once the panels get redrawn.

    If you use Cygwin's mintty terminal, you can use its Flip Screen context menu command (or Alt+F12 shortcut) to switch between the so-called alternate screen, where fullscreen applications like mc normally run, and the primary screen where output from commands such as cat appears.

    [Jun 13, 2018] I Can't Select Text With My Mouse

    Jun 13, 2018 | www.nawaz.org

    I Can't Select Text With My Mouse

    [May 20, 2018] Midnight Commander (mc): convenient hard links creation from user menu

    Notable quotes:
    "... Future Releases ..."
    May 20, 2018 | bogdan.org.ua

    3rd December 2015

    Midnight Commander is a convenient two-panel file manager with tons of features.

    You can create hard links and symbolic links using C-x l and C-x s keyboard shortcuts. However, these two shortcuts invoke two completely different dialogs.

    While for C-x s you get 2 pre-populated fields (path to the existing file, and path to the link – which is pre-populated with your opposite file panel path plus the name of the file under cursor; simply try it to see what I mean), for C-x l you only get 1 empty field: path of the hard link to create for a file under cursor. Symlink's behaviour would be much more convenient

    Fortunately, a good man called Wiseman1024 created a feature request in the MC's bug tracker 6 years ago. Not only had he done so, but he had also uploaded a sample mc user menu script ( local copy ), which works wonderfully! You can select multiple files, then F2 l (lower-case L), and hard-links to your selected files (or a file under cursor) will be created in the opposite file panel. Great, thank you Wiseman1024 !

    Word of warning: you must know what hard links are and what their limitations are before using this menu script. You also must check and understand the user menu code before adding it to your mc (by F9 C m u , and then pasting the script from the file).

    Word of hope: 4 years ago Wiseman's feature request was assigned to Future Releases version, so a more convenient C-x l will (sooner or later) become the part of mc. Hopefully.

    [May 20, 2018] Midnight Commander: panelize or select all files newer than specified date

    May 20, 2018 | bogdan.org.ua

    3rd February 2017

    If you ever need to select lots (hundreds, thousands) of files by their modification date, and your directory contains many more files (thousands, tens of thousands), then angel_il has the answer for you:
    1. touch -d "Jun 01 00:00 2011″ /tmp/.date1
    2. enter into your BIG dir
    3. press C-x ! (External panelize)
    4. add new command like a "find . -type f \( -newer /tmp/.date1 \) -print"

    I've used a slightly different approach, specifying desired date right in the command line of External Panelize:

    1. enter your directory with many files
    2. press C-x ! (External Panelize)
    3. add a command like find . -type f -newermt "2017-02-01 23:55:00" -print ( man find for more details)

    In both cases, the created panel will only have files matching your search condition.

    [Nov 29, 2017] Take This GUI and Shove It

    Providing a great GUI for complex routers or Linux admin is hard. Of course there has to be a CLI, that's how pros get the job done. But a great GUI is one that teaches a new user to eventually graduate to using CLI.
    Notable quotes:
    "... Providing a great GUI for complex routers or Linux admin is hard. Of course there has to be a CLI, that's how pros get the job done. But a great GUI is one that teaches a new user to eventually graduate to using CLI. ..."
    "... What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change. That way you could (a) learn about how to do it per CLI by looking at the generated shell script, and (b) apply the generated shell script (after proper inspection, of course) to other computers. ..."
    "... AIX's SMIT did this, or rather it wrote the commands that it executed to achieve what you asked it to do. This meant that you could learn: look at what it did and find out about which CLI commands to run. You could also take them, build them into a script, copy elsewhere, ... I liked SMIT. ..."
    "... Cisco's GUI stuff doesn't really generate any scripts, but the commands it creates are the same things you'd type into a CLI. And the resulting configuration is just as human-readable (barring any weird naming conventions) as one built using the CLI. I've actually learned an awful lot about the Cisco CLI by using their GUI. ..."
    "... Microsoft's more recent tools are also doing this. Exchange 2007 and newer, for example, are really completely driven by the PowerShell CLI. The GUI generates commands and just feeds them into PowerShell for you. So you can again issue your commands through the GUI, and learn how you could have done it in PowerShell instead. ..."
    "... Moreover, the GUI authors seem to have a penchant to find new names for existing CLI concepts. Even worse, those names are usually inappropriate vagueries quickly cobbled together in an off-the-cuff afterthought, and do not actually tell you where the doodad resides in the menu system. With a CLI, the name of the command or feature set is its location. ..."
    "... I have a cheap router with only a web gui. I wrote a two line bash script that simply POSTs the right requests to URL. Simply put, HTTP interfaces, especially if they implement the right response codes, are actually very nice to script. ..."
    Slashdot

    Deep End's Paul Venezia speaks out against the overemphasis on GUIs in today's admin tools, saying that GUIs are fine and necessary in many cases, but only after a complete CLI is in place, and that they cannot interfere with the use of the CLI, only complement it. Otherwise, the GUI simply makes easy things easy and hard things much harder. He writes, 'If you have to make significant, identical changes to a bunch of Linux servers, is it easier to log into them one-by-one and run through a GUI or text-menu tool, or write a quick shell script that hits each box and either makes the changes or simply pulls down a few new config files and restarts some services? And it's not just about conservation of effort - it's also about accuracy. If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box. If you're doing them all by hand, you aren't.'"

    alain94040 (785132)

    Here is a Link to the print version of the article [infoworld.com] (that conveniently fits on 1 page instead of 3).

    Providing a great GUI for complex routers or Linux admin is hard. Of course there has to be a CLI, that's how pros get the job done. But a great GUI is one that teaches a new user to eventually graduate to using CLI.

    A bad GUI with no CLI is the worst of both worlds, the author of the article got that right. The 80/20 rule applies: 80% of the work is common to everyone, and should be offered with a GUI. And the 20% that is custom to each sysadmin, well use the CLI.

    maxwell demon:

    What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change. That way you could (a) learn about how to do it per CLI by looking at the generated shell script, and (b) apply the generated shell script (after proper inspection, of course) to other computers.

    0123456 (636235) writes:

    What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change.

    While it's not quite the same thing, our GUI-based home router has an option to download the config as a text file so you can automatically reconfigure it from that file if it has to be reset to defaults. You could presumably use sed to change IP addresses, etc, and copy it to a different router. Of course it runs Linux.

    Alain Williams:

    AIX's SMIT did this, or rather it wrote the commands that it executed to achieve what you asked it to do. This meant that you could learn: look at what it did and find out about which CLI commands to run. You could also take them, build them into a script, copy elsewhere, ... I liked SMIT.

    Ephemeriis:

    What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change. That way you could (a) learn about how to do it per CLI by looking at the generated shell script, and (b) apply the generated shell script (after proper inspection, of course) to other computers.

    Cisco's GUI stuff doesn't really generate any scripts, but the commands it creates are the same things you'd type into a CLI. And the resulting configuration is just as human-readable (barring any weird naming conventions) as one built using the CLI. I've actually learned an awful lot about the Cisco CLI by using their GUI.

    We've just started working with Aruba hardware. Installed a mobility controller last week. They've got a GUI that does something similar. It's all a pretty web-based front-end, but it again generates CLI commands and a human-readable configuration. I'm still very new to the platform, but I'm already learning about their CLI through the GUI. And getting work done that I wouldn't be able to if I had to look up the CLI commands for everything.

    Microsoft's more recent tools are also doing this. Exchange 2007 and newer, for example, are really completely driven by the PowerShell CLI. The GUI generates commands and just feeds them into PowerShell for you. So you can again issue your commands through the GUI, and learn how you could have done it in PowerShell instead.

    Anpheus:

    Just about every Microsoft tool newer than 2007 does this. Virtual machine manager, SQL Server has done it for ages, I think almost all the system center tools do, etc.

    It's a huge improvement.

    PoV:

    All good admins document their work (don't they? DON'T THEY?). With a CLI or a script that's easy: it comes down to "log in as user X, change to directory Y, run script Z with arguments A B and C - the output should look like D". Try that when all you have is a GLUI (like a GUI, but you get stuck): open this window, select that option, drag a slider, check these boxes, click Yes, three times. The output might look a little like this blurry screen shot and the only record of a successful execution is a window that disappears as soon as the application ends.

    I suppose the Linux community should be grateful that windows made the fundemental systems design error of making everything graphic. Without that basic failure, Linux might never have even got the toe-hold it has now.

    skids:

    I think this is a stronger point than the OP: GUIs do not lead to good documentation. In fact, GUIs pretty much are limited to procedural documentation like the example you gave.

    The best they can do as far as actual documentation, where the precise effect of all the widgets is explained, is a screenshot with little quote bubbles pointing to each doodad. That's a ridiculous way to document.

    This is as opposed to a command reference which can organize, usually in a pretty sensible fashion, exact descriptions of what each command does.

    Moreover, the GUI authors seem to have a penchant to find new names for existing CLI concepts. Even worse, those names are usually inappropriate vagueries quickly cobbled together in an off-the-cuff afterthought, and do not actually tell you where the doodad resides in the menu system. With a CLI, the name of the command or feature set is its location.

    Not that even good command references are mandatory by today's pathetic standards. Even the big boys like Cisco have shown major degradation in the quality of their documentation during the last decade.

    pedantic bore:

    I think the author might not fully understand who most admins are. They're people who couldn't write a shell script if their lives depended on it, because they've never had to. GUI-dependent users become GUI-dependent admins.

    As a percentage of computer users, people who can actually navigate a CLI are an ever-diminishing group.

    arth1: /etc/resolv.conf

    /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
    chkconfig NetworkManager off
    chkconfig network on
    vi /etc/sysconfig/network
    vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0

    At least they named it NetworkManager, so experienced admins could recognize it as a culprit. Anything named in CamelCase is almost invariably written by new school programmers who don't grok the Unix toolbox concept and write applications instead of tools, and the bloated drivel is usually best avoided.

    Darkness404 (1287218) writes: on Monday October 04, @07:21PM (#33789446)

    There are more and more small businesses (5, 10 or so employees) realizing that they can get things done easier if they had a server. Because the business can't really afford to hire a sysadmin or a full-time tech person, its generally the employee who "knows computers" (you know, the person who has to help the boss check his e-mail every day, etc.) and since they don't have the knowledge of a skilled *Nix admin, a GUI makes their administration a lot easier.

    So with the increasing use of servers among non-admins, it only makes sense for a growth in GUI-based solutions.

    Svartalf (2997) writes: Ah... But the thing is... You don't NEED the GUI with recent Linux systems- you do with Windows.

    oatworm (969674) writes: on Monday October 04, @07:38PM (#33789624) Homepage

    Bingo. Realistically, if you're a company with less than a 100 employees (read: most companies), you're only going to have a handful of servers in house and they're each going to be dedicated to particular roles. You're not going to have 100 clustered fileservers - instead, you're going to have one or maybe two. You're not going to have a dozen e-mail servers - instead, you're going to have one or two. Consequently, the office admin's focus isn't going to be scalability; it just won't matter to the admin if they can script, say, creating a mailbox for 100 new users instead of just one. Instead, said office admin is going to be more focused on finding ways to do semi-unusual things (e.g. "create a VPN between this office and our new branch office", "promote this new server as a domain controller", "install SQL", etc.) that they might do, oh, once a year.

    The trouble with Linux, and I'm speaking as someone who's used YaST in precisely this context, is that you have to make a choice - do you let the GUI manage it or do you CLI it? If you try to do both, there will be inconsistencies because the grammar of the config files is too ambiguous; consequently, the GUI config file parser will probably just overwrite whatever manual changes it thinks is "invalid", whether it really is or not. If you let the GUI manage it, you better hope the GUI has the flexibility necessary to meet your needs. If, for example, YaST doesn't understand named Apache virtual hosts, well, good luck figuring out where it's hiding all of the various config files that it was sensibly spreading out in multiple locations for you, and don't you dare use YaST to manage Apache again or it'll delete your Apache-legal but YaST-"invalid" directive.

    The only solution I really see is for manual config file support with optional XML (or some other machine-friendly but still human-readable format) linkages. For example, if you want to hand-edit your resolv.conf, that's fine, but if the GUI is going to take over, it'll toss a directive on line 1 that says "#import resolv.conf.xml" and immediately overrides (but does not overwrite) everything following that. Then, if you still want to use the GUI but need to hand-edit something, you can edit the XML file using the appropriate syntax and know that your change will be reflected on the GUI.

    That's my take. Your mileage, of course, may vary.

    icebraining (1313345) writes: on Monday October 04, @07:24PM (#33789494) Homepage

    I have a cheap router with only a web gui. I wrote a two line bash script that simply POSTs the right requests to URL. Simply put, HTTP interfaces, especially if they implement the right response codes, are actually very nice to script.

    devent (1627873) writes:

    Why Windows servers have a GUI is beyond me anyway. The servers are running 99,99% of the time without a monitor and normally you just login per ssh to a console if you need to administer them. But they are consuming the extra RAM, the extra CPU cycles and the extra security threats. I don't now, but can you de-install the GUI from a Windows server? Or better, do you have an option for no-GUI installation? Just saw the minimum hardware requirements. 512 MB RAM and 32 GB or greater disk space. My server runs

    sirsnork (530512) writes: on Monday October 04, @07:43PM (#33789672)

    it's called a "core" install in Server 2008 and up, and if you do that, there is no going back, you can't ever add the GUI back.

    What this means is you can run a small subset of MS services that don't need GUI interaction. With R2 that subset grew somwhat as they added the ability to install .Net too, which mean't you could run IIS in a useful manner (arguably the strongest reason to want to do this in the first place).

    Still it's a one way trip and you better be damn sure what services need to run on that box for the lifetime of that box or you're looking at a reinstall. Most windows admins will still tell you the risk isn't worth it.

    Simple things like network configuration without a GUI in windows is tedious, and, at least last time i looked, you lost the ability to trunk network poers because the NIC manufactuers all assumed you had a GUI to configure your NICs

    prichardson (603676) writes: on Monday October 04, @07:27PM (#33789520) Journal

    This is also a problem with Max OS X Server. Apple builds their services from open source products and adds a GUI for configuration to make it all clickable and easy to set up. However, many options that can be set on the command line can't be set in the GUI. Even worse, making CLI changes to services can break the GUI entirely.

    The hardware and software are both super stable and run really smoothly, so once everything gets set up, it's awesome. Still, it's hard for a guy who would rather make changes on the CLI to get used to.

    MrEricSir (398214) writes:

    Just because you're used to a CLI doesn't make it better. Why would I want to read a bunch of documentation, mess with command line options, then read whole block of text to see what it did? I'd much rather sit back in my chair, click something, and then see if it worked. Don't make me read a bunch of man pages just to do a simple task. In essence, the question here is whether it's okay for the user to be lazy and use a GUI, or whether the programmer should be too lazy to develop a GUI.

    ak_hepcat (468765) writes: <[email protected] minus author> on Monday October 04, @07:38PM (#33789626) Homepage Journal

    Probably because it's also about the ease of troubleshooting issues.

    How do you troubleshoot something with a GUI after you've misconfigured? How do you troubleshoot a programming error (bug) in the GUI -> device communication? How do you scale to tens, hundreds, or thousands of devices with a GUI?

    CLI makes all this easier and more manageable.

    arth1 (260657) writes:

    Why would I want to read a bunch of documentation, mess with command line options, then read whole block of text to see what it did? I'd much rather sit back in my chair, click something, and then see if it worked. Don't make me read a bunch of man pages just to do a simple task. Because then you'll be stuck at doing simple tasks, and will never be able to do more advanced tasks. Without hiring a team to write an app for you instead of doing it yourself in two minutes, that is. The time you spend reading man

    fandingo (1541045) writes: on Monday October 04, @07:54PM (#33789778)

    I don't think you really understand systems administration. 'Users,' or in this case admins, don't typically do stuff once. Furthermore, they need to know what he did and how to do it again (i.e. new server or whatever) or just remember what he did. One-off stuff isn't common and is a sign of poor administration (i.e. tracking changes and following processes).

    What I'm trying to get at is that admins shouldn't do anything without reading the manual. As a Windows/Linux admin, I tend to find Linux easier to properly administer because I either already know how to perform an operation or I have to read the manual (manpage) and learn a decent amount about the operation (i.e. more than click here/use this flag).

    Don't get me wrong, GUIs can make unknown operations significantly easier, but they often lead to poor process management. To document processes, screenshots are typically needed. They can be done well, but I find that GUI documentation (created by admins, not vendor docs) tend to be of very low quality. They are also vulnerable to 'upgrades' where vendors change the interface design. CLI programs typically have more stable interfaces, but maybe that's just because they have been around longer...

    maotx (765127) writes: <[email protected]> on Monday October 04, @07:42PM (#33789666)

    That's one thing Microsoft did right with Exchange 2007. They built it entirely around their new powershell CLI and then built a GUI for it. The GUI is limited in compared to what you can do with the CLI, but you can get most things done. The CLI becomes extremely handy for batch jobs and exporting statistics to csv files. I'd say it's really up there with BASH in terms of scripting, data manipulation, and integration (not just Exchange but WMI, SQL, etc.)

    They tried to do similar with Windows 2008 and their Core [petri.co.il] feature, but they still have to load a GUI to present a prompt...Reply to This

    Charles Dodgeson (248492) writes: <[email protected]> on Monday October 04, @08:51PM (#33790206) Homepage Journal

    Probably Debian would have been OK, but I was finding admin of most Linux distros a pain for exactly these reasons. I couldn't find a layer where I could do everything that I needed to do without worrying about one thing stepping on another. No doubt there are ways that I could manage a Linux system without running into different layers of management tools stepping on each other, but it was a struggle.

    There were other reasons as well (although there is a lot that I miss about Linux), but I think that this was one of the leading reasons.

    (NB: I realize that this is flamebait (I've got karma to burn), but that isn't my intention here.)

    [May 08, 2017] Show HN Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor

    Apr 20, 2017 | news.ycombinator.com
    Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor ( cloudcmd.io )

    81 points by coderaiser 166 days ago | hide | past | web | 23 comments | favorite

    60654 166 days ago

    Hey, that looks like Norton Commander in the browser! Even the icon is an homage to the original. Neat.

    Also TIL that "orthodox" file manager is an actual term, and there's even a huge online book about them [1]. That's funny, we used to call them just "file managers"... ;)

    1. http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/index.shtml

    8ig8 165 days ago

    Wikipedia has an overview:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_m...

    doublerebel 166 days ago [-]
    Oh, what Norton used to be. I cut my teeth on Norton Utilities once upon a time. The only way to write batch files!
    ygra 165 days ago [-]
    A few things I noticed in the live demo:
    coderaiser 165 days ago [-]
    Thank you for such a detailed commentary.
    ygra 163 days ago
    I'm sorry to not being able to help out with pull requests. My grasp of JavaScript isn't good enough and work leaves me with little time to devote to other projects, sadly. I hope a bit of input from a bit of a usability perspective is still welcome, though :-)

    As for Page↑/Page↓: 1680×1050 here. Could reproduce it in both Firefox and Chrome.

    As for dead keys: It may require rethinking input handling, depending on how you're doing it currently. Input is usually on two different levels: Key presses and text input. While you usually cannot reliably turn the former into text and cannot get a pressed key from the latter (could also have been an IME or multiple keypresses), you usually should be able to handle a key press (for opening the console) and not have it result in state changes for text input handling (which would be required for input on the console).

    Feedback button now works, but didn't for me when I wrote that comment either on Firefox or Chrome on Windows 10. I didn't consider checking the dev tools, though, sorry. But seems to be resolved now.

    iflowfor8hours 166 days ago
    I have been trying to break a FAR manager addiction for many many years, despite being a linux user exclusively for the last 10, FAR is the most useful shell I have ever used. mc doesn't cut it.
    digi_owl 166 days ago
    I guess my may have seen it, but there appears to a project ongoing to try to port FAR to Linux.

    https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

    hiou 165 days ago [-]
    This has to be the greatest logo I've seen in a while. Did you create it yourself and if so what did you use?
    coderaiser 165 days ago
    This logo is a work of a great designer http://zalitok.github.io She use CorelDRAW and Adobe Ilustrator for this purpose.
    PuffinBlue 166 days ago
    > Web version of mc on JS base

    What is mc?

    kroo 166 days ago [-]
    "mc" stands for midnight commander, which is itself a clone of Norton commander, which was sold by Symantec in the 80s and 90s. Norton commander was popular enough that by the time it was discontinued it had been ported to many other platforms (midnight commander being one of the ports for unix systems). Over time, Norton commander became the prototype for the "orthodox file manager", the category of file managers with two side-by-side file browser windows: many of the same key bindings for this category of file manager are the same as the original Norton commander keybindings.

    Midnight commander (and more generally an orthodox file manager) is especially useful for moving files from one system to another, as it usually supports browsing to remote file systems over ssh or ftp, and gives you a simultaneous view of where you're moving files from and to on the same screen.

    The Wikipedia page is a pretty interesting read, actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander

    digi_owl 166 days ago
    Actually it started as a independent company that Symantec bought in the 90s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton_Computing

    [Apr 20, 2017] The best OSX file manager - Wojciech Adam Koszek

    Apr 20, 2017 | www.koszek.com

    So what's there for OSX?

    This is a great thread on StackOverflow on really good file managers for OSX.

    I've tried some of these programs, but muCommander beat them all. Others were paid and not looking very good.

    muCommander looks simple, but is pretty powerful.

    MuCommander screenshot

    My mental model is: left pane is source, right pane is destination. It's simple for files and directories, and comes handy when you make a backup to your external harddrive (you do backup, don't you?)

    It has a support for modern stuff too: S3, HDFS and HTTP:

    MuCommander screenshot 2

    If you're a normal user and you only care about files, it won't be fun for you, but nerds should try "HTTP". You can type a website address there and muCommander will fetch and analyze the site and show its resources as files. So if there's a reference to style.css it'll show it to you and you can copy the file to the local filesystem. It's pretty cool.

    You should start playing with it and I think you'll like it.

    [Apr 20, 2017] Advanced file manager for Mac - Nimble Commander

    Apr 20, 2017 | magnumbytes.com

    Nimble Commander is built with efficiency in mind to ensure the minimum consumption of system resources. Written mostly in C++, it provides blazing performance and instantaneous user interface response. For instance, handling dozens of windows and tabs is no big deal.

    Following the strong traditions of orthodox dual-panel file managers, Nimble Commander provides quick keyboard access to file management operations. To save your time, there are keyboard shortcuts for more than a hundred actions.


    Nimble Commander is designed to be flexible and comfortable for a vast range of uses. Colors, sizes, fonts, presentation types, filename trimming, quick search behavior, external tools, terminal emulator position, hotkeys layout – you can customize all of that.

    [Apr 20, 2017] Roundup of Functional File Managers

    Apr 20, 2017 | windows.appstorm.net
    ... ... ...

    Far Manager

    Far Manager is currently in its third version. It was originally written by Eugene Roshal, but is now maintained by the Far Group. Like Midnight Commander, it too, is text-only. Unlike the developers of Midnight Commander, the developers of Far Manager did something about the inadequacy of the Windows command console. They wrote a companion to Far, called ConEmu , a terminal emulator that is worth a review in its own right.

    What sets Far Manager apart from most other Orthodox File Managers is the plugin support. Far Manager includes plugins for FTP, file archiving, and text editor support. Despite its text-only nature, the user interface can be customized to be pleasing to the eye and the plugin architecture has been expanded to include the .NET architecture. Among other things, this means that there is a plugin that can display pictures in the console window by using DirectX.

    Far Manager is offered as freeware under a revised BSD license.

    [Apr 20, 2017] 6 best orthodox file managers for Linux

    Apr 20, 2017 | www.techradar.com
    GNOME COMMANDER: The bulk rename utility is a very handy feature for managing your files

    Thanks to the GnomeVFS virtual filesystem, GCMD can connect to Samba and NFS shares, and transfer files over FTP and SSH. Also helpful are the quick access device buttons. GCMD seems to be big on using metadata attached with files. It has a comprehensive bulk file rename utility that can use the metadata attached with the file.

    For example you can use the date/time info from a JPEG's Exif data or album/artist info from the MP3's metadata to rename the files with these details. The advanced rename utility also supports regular expressions and gives a preview of the filenames as they'll appear once the batch rename operation is complete. It's really impressive and offers a great amount of flexibility and control.

    GCMD currently ships with two plugins – File Roller and CVS. Since GCMD can't handle compressed archives, the File Roller plugin plugs that hole, allowing it to create and extract Zip, Tar, 7z, bz2, Rar, RPM, Deb, and other archive types. But GCMD relies on the graphical Meld tool to help users see the difference and merge files between two files.

    If you've got Meld on your box, GCMD will let you compare two files and synchronise directories. However, the command line lacks autocompletion and the gaps in the documentation aren't helpful.

    Version: 1.2.7
    Website: www.nongnu.org/gcmd
    Price: Free under GPL
    Verdict: Powerful metatag rename utility, but lacks documentation and plugins.
    Rating: 7/10

    [Apr 20, 2017] Do you use Orthodox File Managers

    Apr 20, 2017 | coderanch.com
    Pat Farrell mentioned Nikolai Bezroukov's "A Second Look at the Cathedral and Bazaar" text via which I found another very interesting text: The Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm. Dr. Bezroukov said ,

    "Although originated in the USA, the OFMs became mostly a European phenomenon with a very strong following in Eastern Europe (especially in former USSR countries), Scandinavian countries and Germany."

    It's true that once learned them in a former USSR country I was never able to depart with them and until now have very vague idea of Windows's native interface, because I always have one of these wonderful pieces of software installed. I don't know how one can live without them.

    In case you wonder what "Orthodox File Managers" are (I never heard this term before) examples include Norton Commander, Total Commander, Midnight Commander, Northern Captain etc. Uncontrolled vocabularies

    "I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet Ernest Friedman-Hill author and iconoclast

    Sheriff The majority of Americans use Reform file managers, but there are pockets of Conservative file managers as well. [Jess in Action] [AskingGoodQuestions] Pat Farrell Rancher Ernie's answer jumped into my brain when I saw the title, he just beat me to it, and was probably better phrased.

    I had not heard the phrase before this thread , and haven't used any of such file managers.

    I generally change computer too often to get very interested in customizing them. About all I do is install cygwin on all windows boxes so I can type ls and grep.

    I've become a shell guy, as the gui stuff changes too often.

    I think a lot of the customization is really closer to religion, be it orthodox, reform or conservative, or even Catholic versus Calvanist. I can't even figure out why Linux folks argue over KDE vs Gnome.

    [Apr 20, 2017] Richs Quick and Easy Guide to File Management with MuCommander by logicgrimoire

    This is probably one of the best options for MAC
    November 15, 2013 | logicgrimoire.wordpress.com
    ... ... ...

    Another neat feature of muCommander (and a number of other file managers, I might add) is its ability to store bookmarks of places you've been, and would like to go again, specifically directories. These can be local (on your own hard drive), or over the network via FTP or other protocols.

    For example, you can bookmark the directory where you keep your favorite heavily-annotated plaintext copy of Charlie Stross's science fiction novel Accelerando , so you can go back to it for a few moments' reading in your spare time between work emails. This is a silly example, but you get the point. All kidding aside, I often keep a couple of "types" of bookmarks: those directories that I visit most often, such as "Documents" or "Videos", and a few "temporary" ones that point to directories where I keep what I'm currently reading, or bits of code I'm working on. Please note that as of version 0.8.5, you cannot bookmark files.

    You can use the "Bookmarks" menu visible at the top of the program window if you prefer to point-and-click. Below I'll list a few bookmark-related keyboard shortcuts:

    Bookmark current location

    Show navigable "quick list" of bookmarks

    Open bookmarks list in file manager pane (this allows for file manager operations on your bookmarks collection, such as copying via <F5> (what is it with me and copying? I must do lots of backups). However, I don't necessarily recommend this unless you know exactly what you're doing as I recently had to stop muCommander from "copying" an entire open-source-software FTP site onto my Desktop. So YMMV.).

    Network Usage – Virtual File Systems and FTP

    As mentioned, you can set up muCommander to display various types of network locations in one of your file manager windows just as easily as it can display local files. This is quite handy, I'm sure you'll agree, even when you don't need to copy a whole FTP server's contents onto your Desktop. Hopefully, you're smarter than I am, and you'll no doubt be choosing only a few files and directories at a time to shuffle around.

    Kidding aside, this is a great feature of the program, and it can be accessed in two ways (that I know of): by clicking on the button to the left of the "address bar" atop one pane of your main window, or alternatively by using the <Ctrl> + <G> keyboard shortcut which will allow you to type in the address of the FTP server (or any other location) you want.

    There are of course other network protocols than FTP that muCommander supports. You can learn more about them by clicking on the button mentioned above and playing around a bit. Go on, you know you want to! Remember, the best way to learn about a program is often by breaking something

    A Note on Searching

    One area in which muCommander is still improving is file search (though it does have this ability in a limited fashion, as I'll discuss below). For example, if I'm focused on a pane of the main window and start to type, muCommander will narrow down into a list of highlighted files which begin with the characters I've typed.

    Example: I have a directory named "Rich," so I start typing "ri" and the "file cursor" (which is another name for the highlighted thingy we see) jumps to folder "Rich." Tap Enter, Bob's your uncle, and you're browsing the directory. This is extremely handy for super-fast file navigation during your day-to-day usage, and I use it constantly. So be sure not to overlook this feature to add some speed and precision to your movements, as you will be able to literally jump from one directory to another as fast as you can type.

    In fact, when I'm navigating areas of the directory tree that I know well, I can often type faster than I can see what's happening on the screen, so I just keep going and wait for muCommander to catch up, since I know where I'm going to end up! But I digress too much on "fast directory navigation", so let's get back to our discussion of searching

    As of this writing (using muCommander 0.8.5), however, I cannot search for files using UNIX-style globbing or regular expressions natively within muCommander itself (someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this – see my email address at the top of this document). I can, however, work around this slight limitation quite easily using my command shell, and muCommander provides a nice, quick access to this important feature using <Ctrl> + <R> , as in "Run a command" (easy enough to remember, I think).

    Let's say that I would like to be able to do a search for all of the files and directories inside a given directory which have the word "perl" somewhere in the name so I can perform some operation on them (yes, it's a trivial example, but I have actually needed to do this frequently). Using the standard muCommander "quick search" described above, I cannot, since not every item will begin with the letters "perl," and in fact I have a file called "perl-one-liners.txt" and another called "dominus-higher-order-perl.pdf", since I like to sort books by author surname, then title (Please don't ask me why, it's just one of those things). All in all, there are several dozen files in the directory in question to choose from whose names contain "perl" (also not important, but you get the drift). Anyway, I can do this search very easily using the system commands by typing the following:

    <Ctrl> + <R> (open shell interface, which by the way keeps a nice little command history for you)

    ls | grep perl (this assumes you have Cygwin or perhaps a copy of grep.exe hanging around on Windows, whereas Linux/Mac folk should need no explanations) OR =dir | find /i "perl"= (for the DOS crowd)

    Once I've discovered the file(s) I'm looking for, I can go through and mark them for file operations using the above-mentioned "quick search" feature and the space bar. If there are a lot of these files I want to do something with, sometimes it's easier to save the search results into a temporary file so that I know which filenames to type for the quick search.

    As you can see, muCommander can leverage your computer's existing search capabilities pretty nicely to do what you need it to. You can probably dream up some better solutions to these kinds of problems than I can, but this is a place to start.

    [Mar 29, 2017] Total Commander 9 -- what is new

    If you like me have the problem, when you know that a file exists somewhere, but know neither the location, nor the exact name of the file, that might be helpful for you and your team. If also allows to compare directories for differences and two versions of the same file for differences, And since number of files that I deal with increases exponentially this problem is getting worse and worse. In this sense this tool help to remain sane and find some presentation, quote, config file, or whatever file I need more quickly. It also can be useful for copying PowerPoint presentations to your Windows phone
    Notable quotes:
    "... Use "Everything" tool for much faster search on NTFS drives, also on network shares if possible ..."
    "... Regular expressions supported in more types: Unicode UTF-8+UTF-16, Office XML ..."
    "... Opens Quick View in separate Lister window, updates contents when going to other file ..."
    Mar 29, 2017 | www.ghisler.com

    Here is a list of the most important additions in version 9:

    User interface:

    File operations:

    FTPS, HTTPS:

    Packer:

    Search function:

    Compare by content:

    Multi-rename tool:

    Lister:

    Other operations:

    Internal commands:

    A list of all corrections, also for previous versions, can be found in the history file .

    As usual, the update is free for all registered users.

    [Mar 29, 2017] Classifier - Organize Files in Your Directory 2daygeek

    Mar 29, 2017 | www.2daygeek.com
    Classifier – A Tool to Organize Files in Your Directory Instantly

    by Prakash Subramanian · Published : March 28, 2017 || Last Updated: March 28, 2017

    I recently stumbled upon about Classifier app, which automatically organize files in your current directory, by classifying them into folders of Xls, Docs, .png, .jpeg, vidoe, music, pdfs, images, ISO, etc.

    If i'm not wrong, all our download folder is pretty Sloppy compare with others because most of the downloaded files are sitting over there and we can't delete blindly, which leads to lose some important files. Also not possible to create bunch of folders based on the files and move appropriate files into folder manually.

    So, what to do to avoid this ? Better to organize files with help of classifier, later we can delete unnecessary files easily. Classifier app was written in Python.

    How to Organize directory ? Simple navigate to corresponding directory, where you want to organize/classify your files and run the classifier command, it will take few mins or more depends on the directory files count or quantity.

    Make a note, there is no undo option, if you want to go back. So, finalize before run classifier in directory. Also, it wont move folders.

    Install Classifier in Linux through pip

    pip is a recommended tool for installing Python packages in Linux. Use pip command instead of package manager to get latest build.

    For Debian based systems.

    $ sudo apt-get install python-pip
    

    For RHEL/CentOS based systems.

    $ sudo yum install python-pip
    

    For Fedora

    $ sudo dnf install python-pip
    

    For openSUSE

    $ sudo zypper install python-pip
    

    For Arch Linux based systems

    $ sudo pacman -S python-pip
    

    Finally run the pip tool to install Classifier on Linux.

    $ sudo pip install classifier
    
    Organize pattern files into specific folders

    First i will go with default option which will organize pattern files into specific folders. This will create bunch of directories based on the file types and move them into specific folders.

    See my directory, how its looking now (Before run classifier command).

    $ pwd
    /home/magi/classifier
    
    $ ls -lh
    total 139M
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 4.5M Mar 21 21:21 Aaluma_Doluma.mp3
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  26K Mar 21 21:12 battery-monitor_0.4-xenial_all.deb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  24K Mar 21 21:12 buku-command-line-bookmark-manager-linux.png
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi    0 Mar 21 21:43 config.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   25 Mar 21 21:13 core.py
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 101K Mar 21 21:12 drawing.svg
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  86M Mar 21 21:12 go1.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   28 Mar 21 21:13 index.html
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   27 Mar 21 21:13 index.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  48M Apr 30  2016 Kabali Tamil Movie _ Official Teaser _ Rajinikanth _ Radhika Apte _ Pa Ranjith-9mdJV5-eias.webm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   28 Mar 21 21:12 magi1.txt
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   66 Mar 21 21:12 ppa.py
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 1.1K Mar 21 21:12 Release.html
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  45K Mar 21 21:12 v0.4.zip
    

    Navigate to corresponding directory where you want to organize files, then run classifier command without any option to achieve it.

    $ classifier
    Scanning Files
    Done!
    

    See the Directory look, after run classifier command

    $ ls -lh
    total 44K
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Archives
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi    0 Mar 21 21:43 config.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   25 Mar 21 21:13 core.py
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 DEBPackages
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Documents
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   28 Mar 21 21:13 index.html
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   27 Mar 21 21:13 index.php
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Music
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Pictures
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi   66 Mar 21 21:12 ppa.py
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 1.1K Mar 21 21:12 Release.html
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Videos
    

    Make a note, this will organize only general category files such docs, audio, video, pictures, archive, etc and wont organize .py, .html, .php, etc.,.

    Classify specific file types into specific folder

    To Classify specific file types into specific folder, just add -st (mention the file type) & -sf (folder name) followed by classifier command.

    For best understanding, i'm going to move .py , .html & .php files into Development folder. See the exact command to achieve it.

    $ classifier -st .py .html .php -sf "Development" 
    Scanning Files
    Done!
    

    If the folder doesn't exit, it will create the new one and organize the files into that. See the following output. It created Development directory and moved all the files inside the directory.

    $ ls -lh
    total 28K
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Archives
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 DEBPackages
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:51 Development
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Documents
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Music
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Pictures
    drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Videos
    

    For better clarification, i have listed Development folder files.

    $ ls -lh Development/
    total 12K
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  0 Mar 21 21:43 config.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 25 Mar 21 21:13 core.py
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 28 Mar 21 21:13 index.html
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 27 Mar 21 21:13 index.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  0 Mar 21 21:43 ppa.py
    -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi  0 Mar 21 21:43 Release.html
    

    To Organize files by Date. It will organize current directory files based on the date.

    $ classifier -dt
    

    To save organized files in different location, add -d (source directory) & -o (destination directory) followed by classifier command.

    $  classifier -d /home/magi/organizer -o /home/magi/2g
    

    [Mar 29, 2017] SDB: Midnight Commander tips

    openSUSE
    Using the mouse

    Although Midnight Commander is a text mode application it can make use of mouse. The openSUSE delivered mc will make use of the mouse when used with a GUI console, without any further configuration needed.

    The text mode terminal that we get when booting in runlevels 2 or 3 is a bit different story. You have to install the package gpm ("general purpose mouse") which is also called mouse server. The gpm is used in Linux to receive movements and clicks from mouse. Start gpm and then start Midnight commander.

    If you come to the text terminal using Ctrl + Alt + F1, then gpm will not work as another driver that belongs to GUI (X Server) claims control over the mouse.

    ... ... ...

    FTP browsing

    This is file browsing on remote FTP server just as it is on your computer.

    1. Press F9 to select drop down menus on the top of the screen.
    2. Press Alt + L if you want to use left side panel, or Alt + R for right panel.
    3. Press Alt + P for input box where you have enter server name. Enter for instance
    ftp.gwdg.de/pub
    

    and press Enter.

    Now mc will try anonymous connection to remote machine. If machine responds, you'll get directory listing of /pub on remote server.

    It is possible to do the same from mc command line by typing:

    cd /#ftp:ftp.gwdg.de/pub 
    

    Archive browsing

    Archive in classic meaning is compressed file. In Linux you can recognize them by suffix like:

    tgz, tar.gz, tbz, tar.bz2

    and many more, but above few are the most used

    1. Highlight the file
    2. Press Enter

    That's it. Midnight Commander will decompress file for you and present it's internal structure like any other directory. If you want to extract one or all files from archive mark what you want toextract and use F5 to copy in another panel. Done.

    RPM browsing

    The package installation files for any SUSE are RPM and mc will let you browse them.

    1. Highlight the file
    2. Press Enter

    You'll see few files:

    /INFO
    CONTENTS.cpio
    HEADER
    *INSTALL
    *UPGRADE
    

    Browse to see details of your RPM.

    The CONTENTS.cpio is actual archive with files, and if you want to see within:

    1. Highlight the file
    2. Press Enter

    (You know the drill)

    The *INSTALL and *UPGRADE will do what the name tells, but if you want only to extract one or more files from CONTENTS.cpio than use F5 to copy them in the directory in the other panel.

    PuTTY and line drawing

    PuTTY is terminal application used to access remote computers running Linux via ssh (SSH tunnels from Microsoft Windows see details). The line drawing in Midnight Commander, YaST and another applications that draw lines using special characters can be displayed wrong as something else. The solution is to change settings:

    If that doesn't help, you may set this too:

    Found on webmilhouse.com.

    User menu (F2 key) add-on

    Diffs in color

    Tip by James Ogley:

    + t r & ! t t
    d       Diff against file of same name in other directory
            if [ "%d" = "%D" ]; then
              echo "The two directores must be different"
              exit 1
            fi
            if [ -f %D/%f ]; then        # if two of them, then
              diff -up %f %D/%f | sed -e 's/\(^-.*\)/\x1b[1;31m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                      -e 's/\(^\+.*\)/\x1b[1;32m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                      -e 's/\(^@.*\)/\x1b[36m\1\x1b[0m/g' | less -R
            else
              echo %f: No copy in %D/%f
            fi
    
    D       Diff current directory against other directory
            if [ "%d" = "%D" ]; then
              echo "The two directores must be different"
              exit 1
            fi
            diff -up %d %D | sed -e 's/\(^-.*\)/\x1b[1;31m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                 -e 's/\(^\+.*\)/\x1b[1;32m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                 -e 's/\(^@.*\)/\x1b[36m\1\x1b[0m/g' | less -R
    fi

    [Mar 29, 2017] Far PlugRing - category information

    Mar 29, 2017 | plugring.farmanager.com

    Regular Expression Search and Replace
    - Regular Expression search/replace from panels - Grep, Renaming, Renumbering in panels - Regular Expression search/replace in Editor - Editor filtering, transliteration - Scripting languages support - Many, many more
    FileTags
    File tags management
    Registry browser
    This FAR plugin allows you to do with registry keys and variables exactly the same things as with directories and files.There are two operation modes: "keys as directories" and "keys as files". The keys treated as files have the standard .REG format; REGEDIT.EXE is called automatically to transform keys to files and to import them back to registry (when editing or copying)...
    RegEditor
    This Far Manager plugin allows to browse and edit Windows Registry.
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 01-10-2014 | Total downloads : 8221
    SQLiteDB
    View and edit tables content of SQLite database. Latest versions are available on the site http://farplugs.sourceforge.net
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 25-09-2014 | Total downloads : 9243
    Sniffer
    The simple network sniffer that runs as a plugin for Far Manager. Intercepted IP4 packets are represented as files in the emulated file system. Latest versions are available on the site http://farplugs.sourceforge.net
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 25-09-2014 | Total downloads : 3011
    VersionColumn
    Показ информации о EXE/DLL файлах в универсальной колонке (C0)
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 21-09-2014 | Total downloads : 337
    LUA File List
    Генерация списка файлов по пользовательскому шаблону.
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 20-09-2014 | Total downloads : 804
    LuaFAR for Editor
    LuaFAR for Editor: organizer of user's scripts and script packets
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 11-09-2014 | Total downloads : 4645
    Environment Manager
    Allows configuring and easy enabling/disabling of environment variable groups.
    Rating : 0 | Updated : 28-08-2014 | Total downloads : 3581
    Air Brush
    Air Brush is a fast syntax highlighting plugin for FAR Manager.
    Rating : 32 | Updated : 10-09-2013 | Total downloads : 2250
    Sudo
    Plugin that allows you to run processes with various privileges. Analogue command "sudo" / "su" in linux. Relevant for MS Vista/Seven systems with enabled UAC.
    mc-light dark theme from sergxt
    mc-light dark theme Mc-light (aka midnight commander MP ) is lightweight unix file manager. Its theme is awesome I've ever seen. Original screenshots you can see at http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi#SCREENS I'd changed only cursor color to green.
    User manager
    With this plugin you can:- manage access control lists for files and folders;- manage shares;- manage local and global users and groups;- manage rights.
    Rating : 100 | Updated : 23-03-2013 | Total downloads : 2699

    #1535 (Feature support SCP-SFTP) – Midnight Commander

    sfp connection via sftp:// works, but not too reliably. Still you can do simple things.

    Currently mc supports FISH (copying files over SSH), however, it seems that it does not work on some servers, namely if you don't have shell accound on the machine and only scp/sftp is allowed (for example sourceforge servers used for uploading released files)

    FISH does not work, as does not work using ssh to connect (you are kicked out after connecting with message that shell access is denied), but commandline scp and sftp works here.

    If would be nice to add support for scp and/or sftp to help transfer files to/from server where shell is not available.

    Changed 5 years ago by replika

    Thanks for your working on this feature. It works great so far.

    BTW, how to disconnect a connection?

    Tried cd but it is still connected; cd - will go back to sftp directory.

    In "Active VFS list", it is displayed as //sftp://, but cannot change directory nor free the VFS.

    Currently, I have to exit mc to close the connection.

    Changed 5 years ago by IceMan

    Midnight Commander from current git origin/master doesn't mention SFTP support in mc -V output.

    $ LC_ALL=C mc -V

    GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.3-95-g8ca27aa
    Built with GLib 2.24.2
    Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
    With builtin Editor
    With subshell support as default
    With support for background operations
    With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
    With support for X11 events
    With internationalization support
    With multiple codepages support
    Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish
    Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

    Changed 5 years ago by slavazanko

    Merged to master:

    git log --pretty=oneline a343070..3786051

    [Feb 11, 2017] SDB: Midnight Commander tips

    openSUSE
    Using the mouse

    Although Midnight Commander is a text mode application it can make use of mouse. The openSUSE delivered mc will make use of the mouse when used with a GUI console, without any further configuration needed.

    The text mode terminal that we get when booting in runlevels 2 or 3 is a bit different story. You have to install the package gpm ("general purpose mouse") which is also called mouse server. The gpm is used in Linux to receive movements and clicks from mouse. Start gpm and then start Midnight commander.

    If you come to the text terminal using Ctrl + Alt + F1, then gpm will not work as another driver that belongs to GUI (X Server) claims control over the mouse.

    ... ... ...

    FTP browsing

    This is file browsing on remote FTP server just as it is on your computer.

    1. Press F9 to select drop down menus on the top of the screen.
    2. Press Alt + L if you want to use left side panel, or Alt + R for right panel.
    3. Press Alt + P for input box where you have enter server name. Enter for instance
    ftp.gwdg.de/pub
    

    and press Enter.

    Now mc will try anonymous connection to remote machine. If machine responds, you'll get directory listing of /pub on remote server.

    It is possible to do the same from mc command line by typing:

    cd /#ftp:ftp.gwdg.de/pub 

    Archive browsing

    Archive in classic meaning is compressed file. In Linux you can recognize them by suffix like:

    tgz, tar.gz, tbz, tar.bz2

    and many more, but above few are the most used

    1. Highlight the file
    2. Press Enter

    That's it. Midnight Commander will decompress file for you and present it's internal structure like any other directory. If you want to extract one or all files from archive mark what you want toextract and use F5 to copy in another panel. Done.

    RPM browsing

    The package installation files for any SUSE are RPM and mc will let you browse them.

    1. Highlight the file
    2. Press Enter

    You'll see few files:

    /INFO
    CONTENTS.cpio
    HEADER
    *INSTALL
    *UPGRADE

    Browse to see details of your RPM.

    The CONTENTS.cpio is actual archive with files, and if you want to see within:

    1. Highlight the file
    2. Press Enter

    (You know the drill)

    The *INSTALL and *UPGRADE will do what the name tells, but if you want only to extract one or more files from CONTENTS.cpio than use F5 to copy them in the directory in the other panel.

    PuTTY and line drawing

    PuTTY is terminal application used to access remote computers running Linux via ssh (SSH tunnels from Microsoft Windows see details). The line drawing in Midnight Commander, YaST and another applications that draw lines using special characters can be displayed wrong as something else. The solution is to change settings:

    If that doesn't help, you may set this too:

    Found on webmilhouse.com.

    User menu (F2 key) add-on

    Diffs in color

    Tip by James Ogley:

    + t r & ! t t
    d       Diff against file of same name in other directory
            if [ "%d" = "%D" ]; then
              echo "The two directores must be different"
              exit 1
            fi
            if [ -f %D/%f ]; then        # if two of them, then
              diff -up %f %D/%f | sed -e 's/\(^-.*\)/\x1b[1;31m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                      -e 's/\(^\+.*\)/\x1b[1;32m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                      -e 's/\(^@.*\)/\x1b[36m\1\x1b[0m/g' | less -R
            else
              echo %f: No copy in %D/%f
            fi
    
    D       Diff current directory against other directory
            if [ "%d" = "%D" ]; then
              echo "The two directores must be different"
              exit 1
            fi
            diff -up %d %D | sed -e 's/\(^-.*\)/\x1b[1;31m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                 -e 's/\(^\+.*\)/\x1b[1;32m\1\x1b[0m/g' \
                                 -e 's/\(^@.*\)/\x1b[36m\1\x1b[0m/g' | less -R
    fi

    [Feb 06, 2017] WinSCP 5.9.3 released

    See also WinSCP Tips

    WinSCP is a very good, flexible SFTP client, SCP client, FTPS client and FTP client for Windows. It uses PuTTY format of SSH keys. It can execute PuTTYgen and Pageant (from Tools menu on Login dialog). With a built-in editor that works for remote files it beats competition such as FAR or Total Commander.

    The most important advantage of WinSCP over similar tools is that several sessions are supported simultaneously and you can "stack" them in a way you wish. Switching is via convenient horizontal tabs.

    WinSCP provides very convenient integrated environment for working with Linux servers because it integrates well with Putty (a unique feature of WinSCP). No need to remember passwords anymore. It can launch Putty with the parameters stored on in WinSCP "sessions" allowing you to connect without further authentication. This ability to launch Putty with authentication settings taken from existing "session" in WinSCP makes it perfect launcher for Putty even if you do not use WinSCP features much.

    Multiple sessions can be creates – one for each of your machines. Directories can be compared and newer file transferred to remote server or from the remote server with one click.

    You can also compare individual files, which few other OFMs can do.

    WinSCP take working with "directories favorites" to a new level. This is actually a very weak feature of FAR and it is absent from Total Commander. In WinSCP you can store frequently used directories inside you session or globally. The same true for windows desktop. If also provides you an ability to store favorites in two ways: per session and globally. computer). This makes it a better sysadmin tool then many other OFMs, as navigating to the necessary directory in other OFMs is a more cumbersome process.

    Important:

    WinSCP allows to edit files on the remote machine using built-in editor which is more user friendly that anything I know. This is unique capability to use standard windows style editor for editing files directly on Linux/Unix server. This is a notepad class editor, simple but very functional:

    If your file requires a more complex editor you can configure if for specific extension, for example for *.pl you can use Nodepad++ which allow you to use Perl aware editor on remote files without manually transferring files back and forth.

    for some extensions instead of editor you can use some other application for example viewer.

    There is a setting to allow to open command line at the bottom. The results of the command entered are displayed in a separate screen. There is a built-in history of commands in this screen. Actually a pretty neat implementation of the "third" windows of OFM in GUI environment.

    WinSCP also allows to view hidden files and directories Ctrl-Alt-H. Attributes of files can be not only viewed and changed but also changed recursively.

    Standard for OFMs command line at the bottom can be activated via Shift-Ctrl-N. Execution of command invoke the third window which has history of commands.

    You can synch directories between Windows desktop and remote server and several other more complex things that enhance your productivity (it is a scriptable tool)

    Like in any OFM files can be displayed using mask (basic regular expressions) like in ls.

    In many corporation this is a default tool for working with Linux servers

    It is free and is licensed under GNU license. See History of WinSCP development for more details.

    [Jul 14, 2016] Maintenance release of MC with LUA support

    Jul 14, 2016 | typo.co.il
    A new release of mc^2 is out. It's mainly a maintenance release,
    so there aren't many exciting new features.
    
        http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/
    
    News:
    
    The C side:
    
      - The branch is rebased against mc 4.8.17.
    
    The Lua side:
    
      - A few minor bug fixes.
    
      - New module: "dynamic skin"
    
        It lets you change the skin automatically depending on
        the directory you're in.
    
        So, for example, when you're examining an old backup disk
        you've mounted, or when you're on a remote machine, or when
        you're browsing a panelized or filtered listing, or when
        you're in a read-only directory, you can get a very
        noticeable visual indication reminding you of this.
    
      - New module: "colon"
    
        It lets you type :commands :like :these on the
        command-line (or in the editor). Like in 'vi'.
        E.g., you can rename files by typing:
    
            :s/\.jpe?g/jpg/i
    
        (This launches Visual Rename, where you can inspect
        the changes before committing them.)
    
      - The snapshots module can now save/restore panelized listings.
    _______________________________________________
    mc-devel mailing list
    https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

    [Jul 14, 2016] mc-4.8.17 released

    Notable quotes:
    "... Copy & move operations now use an adaptive buffer, just like the corresponding coreutils commands, which will significantly improve the performance (hopefully!) for many of our users. ..."
    www.midnight-commander.org

    This is a maintenance release that includes bugfixes for a bunch of very annoying bugs that surfaced in the previous version (FISH, patchfs, segfault and tcsh detection on FreeBSD) and brings several new features.

    Copy & move operations now use an adaptive buffer, just like the corresponding coreutils commands, which will significantly improve the performance (hopefully!) for many of our users. Move to the new high-level mouse API has not only simplified our code, but also resolved a number of long-standing mouse bugs. Finally, the new panel centered scrolling mode is weird, but fun; try it out!

    For a detailed list of changes since the last version, please refer to the release notes.

    Download page: http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/?C=N;O=D

    Major changes since 4.8.16

    Core

    VFS

    Editor

    Misc

    [Nov 10, 2015] Midnight Commander version 4.8.15 released

    RHEL is still shipping 4.7

    We are glad to finally announce the release of mc-4.8.15! This new version brings several critical bugfixes to the search / find file functionality, as well as a large number of other fixes and improvements.

    Please note, that the minimum required version of glib is now 2.26.0!

    I would like to thank everybody who contributed to this release (and, in particular, Andrew and Slava), including our dedicated translators!

    In other news, we are very happy to welcome a long standing contributor Egmont Koblinger as a new committer.

    We are very much in need for dedicated maintainers to carefully review and integrate user contributions, process bug reports and generally improve on our aging code base, and accepting a new committer is an important step towards improving current situation.

    Enjoy!

    -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev

    [Nov 04, 2015] What's the best dual pane (orthodox) file manager for OS X

    MuCommander is another option for OsX
    Quora

    Anonymous

    If you're looking for an orthodox dual-panel file manager - it worth it to take a look at Files (Files Lite / Files Pro on Mac App Store): http://filesmanager.info/
    It is hotkeys-centric, supports both FTP and SFTP, provides a bunch of selecting/filtering options and a multi-rename tool was added recently.

    [Nov 04, 2015] Rich's Quick and Easy Guide to File Management with MuCommander

    November 15, 2013 | the logic grimoire

    If you've downloaded and are using MuCommander, you probably know very well what a file manager is, and why you might want to use something better than the one bundled with your particular system. You are most likely a pretty competent computer user. Since that's the case, I'll keep this little guide as brief as I can. By the time you've finished reading it, you will know about the following:

    File Manager Overview

    As mentioned above, you may already be familiar with the two-pane "commander" interface to file managers. It was pioneered by Norton Commander, a popular DOS program from the mid-1980s that has spawned many clones over the years. muCommander is yet another of these "clones", though I hesitate somewhat to call it that, since it is an interesting program in its own right.

    As you can see when you open muCommander, there are two file windows (or "panes") containing lists of files and directories. Try pressing "TAB" a few times to switch back and forth between them. You should see your focus change from one to the other, with a bright blue bar highlighting your current file selection.

    The window you are in at this moment is the "active" window; the opposite is the "passive." When you are in the active window and perform a file operation such as copy or move, the highlighted file is copied/moved to the passive window. Try this a couple of times, if you like, to see how it works (I recommend copying some files around with <F5> so you don't lose anything important).

    Each window has a "location bar" at the top which tells you where you are. To the left of that is a button with the name of the directory you're in. Try clicking on it and you'll see that a list of options are available such as other places in your local filesystem as well as network options like FTP, Samba shares and the like (I'm assuming you know what these are; if you don't, you can read about them on Wikipedia, among other places).

    ... ... ...

    Bookmarks

    Another neat feature of muCommander (and a number of other file managers, I might add) is its ability to store bookmarks of places you've been, and would like to go again, specifically directories. These can be local (on your own hard drive), or over the network via FTP or other protocols.

    For example, you can bookmark the directory where you keep your favorite heavily-annotated plaintext copy of Charlie Stross's science fiction novel Accelerando, so you can go back to it for a few moments' reading in your spare time between work emails. This is a silly example, but you get the point. All kidding aside, I often keep a couple of "types" of bookmarks: those directories that I visit most often, such as "Documents" or "Videos", and a few "temporary" ones that point to directories where I keep what I'm currently reading, or bits of code I'm working on. Please note that as of version 0.8.5, you cannot bookmark files.

    You can use the "Bookmarks" menu visible at the top of the program window if you prefer to point-and-click. Below I'll list a few bookmark-related keyboard shortcuts:
    •<Ctrl> + <B>

    Bookmark current location
    •<Alt> + <4>

    Show navigable "quick list" of bookmarks
    •<Ctrl> + <Shift> + <B>

    Open bookmarks list in file manager pane (this allows for file manager operations on your bookmarks collection, such as copying via <F5> (what is it with me and copying? I must do lots of backups). However, I don't necessarily recommend this unless you know exactly what you're doing as I recently had to stop muCommander from "copying" an entire open-source-software FTP site onto my Desktop. So YMMV.).

    ... ... ...

    muCommander is an excellent computer program. Because it is written in Java, it is portable across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems (I say this from experience – I didn't just read it on the website! :-) It can replace one or more of the other programs that one might usually need: FTP client, file navigator, batch renaming tool, and more. It is truly a wonderful program that can solve many needs, and with a little command customization and study on your part it can be made into a devastatingly effective tool that you can bring with you anywhere (anywhere computerwise, that is – and there's even a portable version!).

    As mentioned above, the best way to learn about muCommander is to mess around. Try different things that seem like they should work, read the keyboard shortcuts from the menus, and above all else, keep good backups of your important files (preferably using muCommander, of course!), in order to let the crashes fall where they may…

    [Nov 03, 2015] File managers orthodox vs explorer

    Dec 26, 2011 | linuxquestions.org

    penguiniator

    I realize this is very late to the discussion, but I don't think the original question was answered.

    I recently switched to using an orthodox file manager: Krusader. "The deal" with OFM's is this. They are most efficient when used with the keyboard and have a very specific set of common key bindings and behaviors not found in managers like Konqueror or other Explorer-type file managers. They are most efficient when you are already familiar with using the shell, as they assist in constructing complex command lines involving many unrelated files. But they make performing the most common functions as simple as a single key press.

    The interface of an orthodox file manager consists of three basic elements: two symmetrical panes showing the content of two directories side-by-side and a command line below. The current directory of the command line is tied to the current directory of the active pane and vice versa. Ctrl-down and Ctrl-up changes focus between the active pane and the command line. Tab toggles the states of the two panes between active and inactive. When the command line is active, Ctrl-enter inserts the file names highlighted in the active pane and Ctrl-Shift-enter does the same using the complete path to the highlighted files.

    Basic file management commands are bound to the function keys F2 through F10. Copy and move operations start in the active pane and target the inactive pane. For example, to move a file, highlight it in the active pane and press F6. It will be moved to the directory in the inactive pane. Viewing and opening files and directories is as simple as moving the cursor bar to them and pressing enter. The highlight is toggled with the space bar. Files are most-easily targeted by simply typing their name. The cursor bar jumps to the first file that matches what you type.

    Viewing, editing, renaming, and deleting, as well as making directories, are bound to function keys, making them a single key press to initiate. This is quite different from Explorer-type managers, which require using tool bar buttons, pull-down menus, or context menus for most of these operations. And copying or moving files using one of those managers is a much more cumbersome operation.

    Explorer-type managers' one advantage is a graphical tree view of the directory structure, usually in a pane on the left, but their lack of convenience features for common file operations seems to make them better suited to viewing the file system rather than managing it.

    Aside from the keyboard operation of orthodox file managers, they are remarkably consistent in layout, behavior, and key bindings between implementations on all platforms. If you know one, you will be able to instantly use another on a different OS with no need to learn anything. They minimize the number of key strokes for most file operations, making them competitive with the shell in terms of efficiency.

    But that is only the beginning of their features. Most also offer integrated archive management and VFS features, letting you browse archives and ISO files as directories, for example. You can read more about orthodox file managers at The Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm.

    Configuring an Explorer-type manager to show two directories side-by-side will not give you an OFM. You still won't have key bindings for the most-common file operations linked to the two panes and other behaviors that make these file managers so efficient to use.

    [Nov 01, 2015] Roundup of Functional File Managers

    May 21, 2013 | Windows.AppStorm

    The ideas behind Norton Commander have been formalized into the concept of the Orthodox File Manager. These file managers have two panes and a command area. The command area is either an actual command line in the case of text-only programs, or buttons and menubars in the case of graphical equivalents. The two panes show different parts of the file system. This is convenient because one often wants to move or copy files between different parts of the filesystem, and Orthodox File Managers provide quick commands for doing this to selected files.

    ... ... ...

    After trying out these alternatives, I still prefer Directory Opus, but if I had to choose, I would go with FreeCommander. Like its name, it's free, and it has a good selection of features. I give Far Manager an honorable mention because of the plugin architecture and extensibility.

    Although I wouldn't want to see Microsoft kill another category of software by embrace & extend, I wonder why Redmond hasn't folded features of Orthodox File Managers into Windows Explorer. There's a market for it.

    This software has been a cottage industry for more than twenty years. Until Microsoft changes its mind, we can enjoy the competition among the little players in this market niche.

    [Jun 14, 2015] What orthodox file manager for OS X could I use?

    Nov 18, 2012 | stackexchange.com

    muCommander has classic orthodox file manager keybindings. Sadly MC is not very mac'ish and lacks multiple tabs.

    CRAX Commander

    This is a graphical, dual-panel file manager with support for operations (copy, move, delete). This software has built-in support for SSH and FTP. This is not free software but you can download a demo version from the program site.

    Moroshka File Manager (free)

    Today I discovered another commander, the Moroshka File Manager. It has multiple tabs. Looks great. In particular the footer of the main-window is neat.

    FastCommander

    http://osx-fastcommander.appspot.com

    Supports all file operations. Fast, stable, small, lightweight.

    Can be freely downloaded and used - no restrictions, just nag screen.

    Newton Commander (free + open source)

    Cloud Commander is orthodox web file manager for Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

    Cloud Commander

    [Jun 11, 2015] mc 4.8.14 rpm packages

    ...

    https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:laurentwandrebeck/mc
    https://build.opensuse.org/project/repositories/home:laurentwandrebeck

    Re: mc 4.8.14 rpm packages


    Le mer. 10 juin 2015 à 22:46, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury shurup com> a écrit :
    I haven't had a look yet, but from the description it sounds awesome! Do you think you could add a description with links here? http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/Binaries

    I used to maintain the RPMs in the past, but after Fedora picked up the speed this wasn't strictly necessary anymore, and I've never restored the nightly RPM build job after the old server became unavailable.

    --

    Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev

    Hello Yury,

    I've made a subproject for mc on my home at obs, so there's only mc and no other packages that could mess up a bit existing installs.

    To sum up:

    CentOS 7, Scientific Linux 6,7, Fedora 20,21,22 packages are available. (F22 was added a couple hours ago on obs).

    I have for now limited builds to i586 and x86_64. Is there any interest in enabling other archs for Fedora ? ppc ppc64 s390x local armv6l armv7l aarch64 ppc64p7 ppc64le are available (in the gui at least, I'm pretty sure there is not that much supported platforms).

    I don't plan on supporting nightly builds (it'd require quite a bunch of work and I'm afraid I can't afford it).

    I created an account on trac, but I must be blind (and/or dumb) because I can't see where to edit a page. Here's the content though:

    == Redhat-based distros ==

    Binary and source packages for:

    '''Release'''

    {{{

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/CentOS_6/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/CentOS_7/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/ScientificLinux_6/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/ScientificLinux_7/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/Fedora_20/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/Fedora_21/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/Fedora_22/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc.repo

    }}}

    You'll find src.rpm packages at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laurentwandrebeck:/mc/, in the /src directory corresponding to your distribution.

    debuginfo packages are available for debugging purpose.

    Help welcome to get SLE and openSUSE packages up and running.

    Best,

    Laurent.

    [Jun 03, 2015] How to install and use Midnight Commander by David Both

    May 27, 2015 | Opensource.com

    One of my favorite features of Midnight Commander-and of my other favorite file managers-is the ability to drill down into the contents of various types of archive files like zip, rpm, tar, tgz, cpio and others. Simply highlight the desired archive file and press the Enter key. Midnight Commander shows the complete contents of the archive. You can navigate through the directory hierarchy inside the archive and open text files and scripts to view their content.

    Midnight Commander makes it possible to directly copy individual files from the archive out to replace damaged or missing ones. I have used this capability many times to recover a damaged file from a backup tarball or to copy a good copy of a damaged executable or configuration file out of an rpm.

    [May 23, 2015] Mooffie branch screenshots

    As is the practice nowadays, we show you some screenshots to wet your appetite.

    These screenshots demonstrate various features implemented with Lua. No C code is used.

    See here how to enable these features.

    Fields

    You can write your own fields in Lua.

    • This image shows some git-related fields. This saves you from having to do "git status" repeatedly.
    • We also see here that the Size field was redefined (again, using Lua alone) to show commas (or some other means the locale rules dictate), to make it easier to read.
    Let's analyze what we see in the picture:

    The git branch name is is displayed at the bottom of the panel (it's not a field). The working directory is dirty (we have local modifications), which is why it's displayed in red.

    The When, Author, and Message fields tell us the details of the last commit of the file. For example, arg.c was last committed 22 days ago by Andrew. The commit's ID (shown at the mini status) is 8c88aa01ad.


    The St[atus] field is the realy useful field here (and is probably the only field you'll want displayed, especially since it has little performance penalty). It's a two-character field showing the status of the file (see git-status(1) for the letters' meaning):

    On the right panel: defs.js is ignored (by being listed in .gitignore), and a few other files are not tracked by git (indicated by ??). The working directory there is clean (displayed in green).

    More fields; BiDi

    • This image shows some multimedia fields. We see the Durat[ion] of videos / songs, the Bi[trate] and, for videos, the Hei[ght] in pixels. These fields are sortable.
    These fields are aggressively cached, so it's feasible to use them even on slow machines.
    • The Name field was redefined to support BiDi languages like Arabic and Hebrew: the letters order is reversed and, for Arabic, character shaping is performed.
    Note the drop-shadow effect for dialogs, and how the Sort order dialog was moved away from the center to make the screenshot more useful. This "pyrotechnic" is implemented with just a few lines of Lua code. No "code bloat" is involved here.

    Visual Rename

    Sometimes you wish to rename a bunch of files using some regexp. MC can do this but with MC it's like shooting in the dark: you don't know the names you'll end up with till you perform the rename, and then you may discover, to your dismay, that you'll be overwriting some files!

    Visual Rename solves this by showing you, as you type, how your files will end up. It also warns you if clashes (overwriting files) will occur. You can also rename files down a directory tree by "panelize"ing first.

    You may even plug in your own code. No more wasting time on writing those little shell/ruby/perl script to rename files!


    Also note the "Panelize" button. There's a special mode that makes Visual Rename act somewhat like a filter-as-you-type feature.

    Filesystems

    You can write filesystems in Lua. The following naive code:

    local myfs = {
    
      prefix = "myfs",
    
      readdir = function ()
        return { "one.txt", "two.txt", "three.txt" }
      end,
    
      file = function (_, path)
        if path == "one.txt" then
          return "Mary had a little lamb.\nHis fleece was white as snow."
        end
      end
    
    }
    
    fs.register_filesystem(myfs)
    

    results in:

    You'll also find bundled filesystems for SQLite, MySQL and MHT.

    Editor

    The editor too can benefit from scripting, as we'll see here.

    Speller

    A basic speller can be implemented in just 5 lines of code.

    The speller script shown here interacts with your actual speller via the aspell / ispell / hunspell / spell binary.

    This is very different than MC's current approach of linking against a certain C library, an approach which deprives you of the freedom to choose a speller, and of the freedom to decide whether this feature is actually enabled (as it's a compile-time decision).

    Note, in the picture, that misspellings are only highlighted when they occur in comments (and string literals). We certainly don't want "misspellings" occurring in the main code (e.g. "g_getenv") to be highlighted.

    Linter

    Linter for various languages.

    Visual Replace

    The Visual Rename we've seen earlier also works in the editor, where it's known as Visual Replace. It lets you see all the changes in advance, making it a safe alternative to the potentially hazardous "Replace All".

    Function list

    Shows a menu of your functions.

    Modeline

    Modeline support.

    UnicodeData.txt; ruler; scrollbar

    We see three features here:
    • The unicodedata.lua script shows the UTF-8 bytes, and the appropriate line from UnicodeData.txt, of a character we're curious about.
    • There's a ruler if you need to measure distances on the screen. It works anywhere, not just in the editor.
    • There's a scrollbar at the left.

    "Actors"

    The idea behind the "modeline" feature -of embedding meta information in the text- can be used for implementing various creative ideas.

    Here we've embedded the names of the characters of a novel at the start of the text. Our "actors" script then colors them up. Males are in bluish color; females in pinkish.

    Also shown here is our dictionary.lua script.

    User Interface

    We have an elegant, easy, and yet powerful API for creating user interfaces.

    A game.

    In this picture we also happen to be editing the source code of the game. We can edit Lua code right inside MC and then ask it to reload the Lua subsystem when we want to see the effects of our modified code. We don't need to restart MC.

    Notice, in the picture, several things borrowed from the JavaScript world: set_interval and on_click. Additionally, Lua is a dynamic language, which makes it possible to use different styles of programming.


    Also note the scrollbar at the left.

    Recently Visited Files; xterm titles

    Here's a box showing you the files you've recently edited.

    This feature saves you a huge amount of keystrokes because you no longer need to navigate among directories. There's also a "Goto" button which makes this box an alternative to the "Directory hotlist" box.

    Files you're currently editing are marked with "*". You can switch to them right from this box, which makes it a replacement for MC's "Screens" box.

    Files edited in other MC processes are marked with "!".

    You can even provide your own code to alter the list. E.g., you can add there files edited in Vim or gedit. Or you can populate it with all the files in your project.


    You also see here alternative xterm titles. Note the terminal's three tabs: MC's builtin xterm titles would have wasted precious space. Here we have "[M] /path/to/dir" shown for the filemanager, and "[E] edited-file.txt" for the editor. You may customize this. E.g., you can add the process ID to the title.

    Note that we're editing the "TODO" file in the left tab. Indeed, our Recently visited files box indicates (with a "!") that this file is being edited by another process.

    Snapshots

    Want to save the state of your panels? You have it: snapshots.

    This feature is somewhat like tabs, and somewhat like the "Directory hotlist".


    Note the "sb" snapshot, which doesn't record a directory (indicated by <none>). We use it to easily restore a sorting order and a custom listing format.

    The "p" snapshot, on the other hand, records nothing but directory paths (indicated by a missing +).

    Calculator

    Tired of running irb, python, ghci, etc. every time you need to evaluate some formula? Sure you are.

    Here's the solution. A calculator.

    You're not limited to math formulas: any Lua expression works.

    Find-as-you-type; clock

    This image shows two accessories:
    • You can search in any listbox widget. Here we demonstrate this with the Directory Hotlist dialog, but it works anywhere.
    ("broo" matches "Brooks" because the search is case insensitive unless you type an uppercase letter. If the search string isn't found, the "Search" box is painted in alert colors (typically red).)
    • You also see a clock at the top-right corner.

    Docks

    You can inject your own widgets into the filemanager (this is just a "by product" of our fine user interface API).

    The ticker module injects widgets that show you the output of shell commands and have this display updated every X seconds.

    In this picture we see two tickers. The top one (the reddish) shows some RSS feeds. The bottom one (the khaki) shows a random line from a text file (useful for people learning some [human] language and needing to improve their vocabulary, for example).

    The user can easily improvise a clock by using a ticker, but there's already one.


    Some other potential uses for this ability:

    • A bar with extra information about the selected file or files.
    • A tab bar.

    Access-warning

    We can inject widgets to the editor too. Here we use this ability to inject, besides a scrollbar, a label warning you about files you won't be able to save.

    (This label, as the scrollbar, doesn't come on top of the text: it's docked south of it.)

    Scrollbar; filter-as-you-type

    [May 23, 2015] mc^2 by Mooffie

    A very important news. Attempt to add LUA support to MC.

    Hi guys!

    I've just published a branch of MC with Lua support:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/

    See the "screenshots" lin k.

    Hi guys!

    I've just published a branch of MC with Lua support:

    http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/

    See the "screenshots" link.

    Also see the "other documents" link for background (especially "HISTORY").

    Many, many tickets can be solved with mc^2, but I don't want to spam the ticket queue with my posts, so I've prepared a list of some such tickets (see "other documents" -> "TICKETS").

    (But in a few tickets I *will* comment: in tickets I believe a constructive discussion could ensue, or where I feel people are truly in need of a solution.)

    ==

    Now, I guess I'll be attacked for one reason or another. Let me save your time by attacking myself for you:

    ==

    Q: "Is this a 'fork' of MC? Are you trying to split the community?"

    A: No, this is not a "fork" (as per Wikipedia's definition). It's intended to be "food for thought" for the MC community. My hope is that eventually the principle behind mc^2 will be adopted by MC.

    ==

    Q: "Is seems that you've invested a lot of time in this. Gosh, why waste human resources?! Especially on something that nobody's going to use?"

    A: The time I "waste" here is negligible in comparison to the time and efforts wasted by tens of people who have tried to contribute code to MC over the years.

    The principle behind mc^2, if adopted by MC, is going to put an end to this waste of human resources.

    ==

    Q: "But why use Lua?!?! Why not pick the language that starts with 'P'?! Why not make it work with any language?!??!"

    A: Let's not talk about languages/VMs *right now*. Please, as much as it's tempting.

    Right now, the language is not the issue. The issue is the principle, of having some extension language.

    The language/VM is obviously something everybody will have something to say about. You will. But not now.

    If every passerby here will now emit his "2 cents" opinion/rant, it will kill the vision/project. It will start a Holy War. It will derail the discussion from the mainroad to the gutters. It's the least constructive thing that could happen. It means death.

    In the future, when we know the principle will be regarded favorably by MC's maintainers, we could open this issue and discuss things.

    One thing's for sure: You can't give an opinion about the subject without considering it for at least a week (or a month, I'd say). There are various facets to consider. There are threads of thoughts to be picked and discarded. There are insights to be acquired. You can't just barge in with "use Python!!", "use Parrot!", "use GObject!". As the Chinese saying goes, "Opinions are like belly buttons: everybody has one". It should take more, much more, than an "opinion" to affect the discussion.

    So, again: let's not talk about languages now.

    (For the record: I recorded my reasons for choosing Lua in "other documents" -> "HISTORY".)

    Also see the "other documents" link for background (especially "HISTORY"). Many, many tickets can be solved with mc^2, but I don't want to spam the ticket queue with my posts, so I've prepared a list of some such tickets (see "other documents" -> "TICKETS"). (But in a few tickets I *will* comment: in tickets I believe a constructive discussion could ensue, or where I feel people are truly in need of a solution.) == Now, I guess I'll be attacked for one reason or another. Let me save your time by attacking myself for you: == Q: "Is this a 'fork' of MC? Are you trying to split the community?" A: No, this is not a "fork" (as per Wikipedia's definition). It's intended to be "food for thought" for the MC community. My hope is that eventually the principle behind mc^2 will be adopted by MC. == Q: "Is seems that you've invested a lot of time in this. Gosh, why waste human resources?! Especially on something that nobody's going to use?" A: The time I "waste" here is negligible in comparison to the time and efforts wasted by tens of people who have tried to contribute code to MC over the years. The principle behind mc^2, if adopted by MC, is going to put an end to this waste of human resources. == Q: "But why use Lua?!?! Why not pick the language that starts with 'P'?! Why not make it work with any language?!??!" A: Let's not talk about languages/VMs *right now*. Please, as much as it's tempting. Right now, the language is not the issue. The issue is the principle, of having some extension language. The language/VM is obviously something everybody will have something to say about. You will. But not now. If every passerby here will now emit his "2 cents" opinion/rant, it will kill the vision/project. It will start a Holy War. It will derail the discussion from the mainroad to the gutters. It's the least constructive thing that could happen. It means death. In the future, when we know the principle will be regarded favorably by MC's maintainers, we could open this issue and discuss things. One thing's for sure: You can't give an opinion about the subject without considering it for at least a week (or a month, I'd say). There are various facets to consider. There are threads of thoughts to be picked and discarded. There are insights to be acquired. You can't just barge in with "use Python!!", "use Parrot!", "use GObject!". As the Chinese saying goes, "Opinions are like belly buttons: everybody has one". It should take more, much more, than an "opinion" to affect the discussion. So, again: let's not talk about languages now. (For the record: I recorded my reasons for choosing Lua in "other documents" -> "HISTORY".)

    [Mar 23, 2015] Midnight Commander 4.8.14 now released

    Download page: http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/?C=N;O=D

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    simpleRECURSION 21st Century Nostalgia [Feb 05, 2004]

    Comments are more interesting then the article...
    Also, I was surprised to find out that tomorrow, February 6, is NC5's ninth birthday. Weird. Could it be that many others like myself felt a point of anguish and somehow projected it into the collective unconscious? Or does NC5 have a psychic presence among us, in our hearts and minds? I don't know, but here's to you, old buddy!


    I'm so glad to find someone else who is nostalgic for the days of Norton Commander. Back in those days, you were either an XTree Gold man or an NC man ... I was definitely an NC man through and through. My fingers would fly through the keystrokes with NC, and hapless customers would stand by open-mouthed :)

    I was so disappointed when I discovered that NC for Windows was slow and ugly. After a careful search, I settled on Servant Salamander and I haven't looked back since. God bless you, Norton Commander!

    PS. Yes, I too keep a copy of NC4 and NC5 on my hard disk for no reason other than nostalgia :)

    Posted by Eric Pircher on June 20, 2006 05:39 AM


    Norton Commander 5.5 for DOS with Long File Names really exists. Look at Wikipedia to proof that is true.

    Posted by TurricaN on November 24, 2005 11:52 AM

    Well, turns out you are right, TurricaN. I don't know if it was you, but the other day a guy e-mailed me a copy of NC 5.5 with LFN support.

    I have to say that I was severely disappointed in this version. Unlike NC 5.0 and its predecessors, NC 5.5 needs to be installed and cannot be moved around with ease; it does not interact well with Windows, crashes a lot and is very slow.

    P.S. TurricaN, just because someone says something on Wikipedia, it is not necessarily true.

    Posted by Mike on November 26, 2005 12:50 PM

    NC 5.5 inability to move and crashes exists only in NT line of WIndows, while in Windows 9x/ME this is not in the case. For Windows NT better use NC 2.01 for Windows.

    Posted by TurricaN on November 28, 2005 04:50 AM

    Win 9x/ME is utter crap, without argument; the first good, stable Windows version was Win2K, which is NT-based. I will have you know that NC 5.0 works perfectly on all NT-based systems, even though it does need tweaking to work with LFN.

    Now, if I still wanted to use an orthodox file manager, I'd use FAR, by far (pun not intended) the superior NC clone, in all regards; NC for Windows is not a true OFM.

    Posted by Mike on November 28, 2005 08:24 AM

    If you want 100% NC-like archiver, use Commandline ACE - mentioned in one of links inside Wikipedia NC article.

    Posted by ACEfan on February 13, 2006 07:27 AM

    I would, Acefan; if I hadn't been lured by the power and compatibility (and increasing ubiquity) of WinRAR over the years. ;)

    Posted by Mike on February 13, 2006 10:38 AM

    I used to use NC 2.0-4.0, but then I discovered DOS Navigator.

    Posted by Guti on February 28, 2006 08:07 AM

    [May 25, 2001] Inside Solaris - Midnight Commander

    A long time ago, on another computing platform, Peter Norton Computing released Norton Commander. This became my favorite file management program. As I wandered further and further into the UNIX realm, I found it hard to believe that a program like this wasn't available on UNIX. Finally, I came across Midnight Commander, as shown in Figure A. It offers more features than Norton Commander and, unlike Norton Commander, it runs on a variety of different computing platforms.

    [Feb 7, 2000] Battle of the File Managers - the quest for the perfect file managers starts HERE! Suggested by Nguyen Nam Duy <[email protected]>

    An interesting review of several file managers...

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    XTreePro as HTML-editor... : ion1.ionet.netbills


    Xtree -- Another Classic File Manager

    Xtree was another original file manager that created a strong following and almost cult-like devotion. Like OFMs Xtree users were able to achieve very high productivity in command line environment and it can became the style of thinking about filesystem, more merely a file manager. Like OFMs Xtree was re-implemented on most other operating systems, including Unix. See UnixTree Homepage - XTree alike filemanager for Unix - Linux...

    Along with tree-like representation of the DOS filesystem Xtree was/is a pioneer that introduced two very important concepts that later and often incompletely found their way to other file managers including OFM:

    As far as I can remember the original version was very small(34K ?) and did all this staff and more... It was really amazing masterpiece of programming.

    Please take a look on the homepage of Jeff Johnson, the author of the original XTree and XTreeGold (Thank you Jeff, for your great work !)

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    WebDrive is a Windows 95/98 FTP software client that allows you to map an Internet FTP site to a local drive utilizing the standard FTP protocol. This enables you to connect to an FTP site and perform familiar file operations like copy, xcopy, and directory functions with the Windows explorer, a DOS box, or any other application like Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. WebDrive instantly FTP enables any application that reads or writes files by allowing the application to read files from or write files to the FTP site.

    Until now, in order to upload or download files from an FTP site, you needed to run a client FTP utility that presented a user interface to manually select the files to transfer. The WebDrive FTP client makes the FTP site an extension of the file system which enables you to use any application to upload or download files to the FTP site transparently. For more details, click here

    Hiew 6.04 by Eugen Suslikov. Great external viewer for classic OFMs. Frequently used with VC...

    Viewer for HTML and XML for DOS

    George's Home Page -- textviewer with RTF reading capability

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