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Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

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Re: Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

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Post by mpol »

I see this is mostly about the editor MCedit, not the dual-pane filemanager itself.

Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Since the fork of mc about 10 years ago, there has come a lot of new features and bugfixes into mc the filemanager. I would assume they are open for contributions.

Anyone, I really love this Midnight Commander, It is maybe my most important and most used piece of software :)

Re: Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

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Post by BozeWolf »

Voting this up, because mc is great and deserves more attention. Sometimes cp/mv/rm or grep just are not sufficient. Mc is great for browsing your filesystem quickly and for example copy partial content of certain directories only. I use it on macos and even on my vps. Using it since windows xp - when i switched to linux from scratch ;-)

That said, i am not sure what this fork adds. I know a lot of mc tricks, i use it a few times a week. But im not a shell, editor, whatever customizer anyways. So not sure if i would miss scripting. I like it if stuff works out of the box, which mc already does!

A few screenshots of those editing features would help. And maybe contribute some of those new features to the main project. Anyways, nice job!

Re: Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

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Post by lumpa »

mpol wrote: post #2

I see this is mostly about the editor MCedit, not the dual-pane filemanager itself. Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Since the fork of mc about 10 years ago, there has come a lot of new features and bugfixes into mc the filemanager. I would assume they are open for contributions. Anyone, I really love this Midnight Commander, It is maybe my most important…

He also has MC with Python scripting: https://github.com/psprint/mc

Edit: and is submitting at least some code upstream e.g. https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160

Re: Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

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Post by talhah »

smlckz wrote: post #6

Neomutt, Neovim... and now Neo MC!! Where is the Neo Emacs?

I doubt Neo Emacs' existence, emacs is very extensible and rather than a separate fork you'd get something like Spacemacs[0] which builds over the default Emacs distribution.

https://www.spacemacs.org

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