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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 NotPavlovsDog »

BozeWolf wrote: post #3

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 i…

Seconded! A double panel file manager is a very convenient concept, strongly suggest those that have not tried it do so!

I mostly use the core feature of organizing files such as downloads, moving from one folder to another; sorting by size, date, etc, for a quick overview. What would your tricks be?

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

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Post by smartmic »

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…

> Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc?

Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187

EDIT: Interesting read also about the pros and cons of Slang2 as scripting language, some history and the job of maintaining mc in general …

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

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Post by tarkin2 »

smlckz wrote: post #6

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

And what happens when another dev can’t think of a name for their clone? What do they do then? Name it Neoneomc? The dev should have gone down the less-more-most route. Midnight commander, Twilight commander, Dusk commander, Midnight Admiral, Twilight Mutiny... I may give ‘mc’ a try again. Never bothered before.

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

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Post by Pxtl »

I'm pretty new to heavy console-based Linux adminning - I just have a raspbian pi4 I'm using for a bunch of local services around my house, but I've gotten pretty comfy editing files and tweaking services and chmodding/chowning.

However, I refuse to climb the learning cliff of Vi, but nano is... Okay at best?

Is mcedit a good option? I'm still just doing everything from shell and nano.

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

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Post by tux1968 »

NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #11
BozeWolf wrote: post #3

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 i…

Seconded! A double panel file manager is a very convenient concept, strongly suggest those that have not tried it do so! I mostly use the core feature of organizing files such as downloads, moving from one folder to another; sorting by size, date, etc, for a quick overview. What would your tricks be?

Not sure if it really qualifies as a trick, but the game changer for me was . Being able to pop into and out of MC from the shell, even while in the middle of typing a command is great. It's easy to ignore if the command line suffices, and instantly available when helpful.
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