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The AGENTS.md is hilarious! I like the caveman mode and classical mode seems.. interesting!
Beyond the cost of tokens, I found it's very good at doing more with a limited context window before OpenCode hits context compaction.
Norton Commander.
Know and respect your elders.
> : opens a command prompt for power-user actions Vibe coded or not, that's what puts me off from most nc/dn/mc reimplementations. If you can't reach the command line by just typing the command, what's the point? At least on this one you don't have to mouse click somewhere...
Command entering is just one if the "modes", and not necessarily the default one.
If shortcuts are limited to special keys and combos, this frees plane input for commands, but I personally prefer list filtering by default.
> Inspired by Midnight Commander Norton Commander. Know and respect your elders.
> : opens a command prompt for power-user actions Vibe coded or not, that's what puts me off from most nc/dn/mc reimplementations. If you can't reach the command line by just typing the command, what's the point? At least on this one you don't have to mouse click somewhere...
Isn't this the point if TUI/GUI that you don't have to? Common things should be shortcutted, some accessible from menus for discoverability. Command entering is just one if the "modes", and not necessarily the default one. If shortcuts are limited to special keys and combos, this frees plane input for commands, but I personally prefer list filtering by default.
No TUI/GUI can do everything a unix command prompt can do, can they?
I don't know what your usage pattern is, but I keep mc open in a few terminals all the time, and just run commands in mc's shell when I need them. I suppose that if you only run the file manager when you need to manage files, your point of view makes sense.
If you're shopping for a file manager, I'd recommend "yazi", which was a new, yet practical experience for me.
Some aspects are still not completely ironed out, though. For example, today I discovered that there's no reliable exit hook and plugins have to override hotkeys and resort to various hacks. I had to patch a session saving extension so it kills mpv-based music preview plugin after yazi quits with "q". Kinda rough experience, but at least manageable with plugins in Lua.
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Isn't this the point if TUI/GUI that you don't have to? Common things should be shortcutted, some accessible from menus for discoverability. Command entering is just one if the "modes", and not necessarily the default one. If shortcuts are limited to special keys and combos, this frees plane input for commands, but I personally prefer list filtering by default.
> Isn't this the point if TUI/GUI that you don't have to? No TUI/GUI can do everything a unix command prompt can do, can they? I don't know what your usage pattern is, but I keep mc open in a few terminals all the time, and just run commands in mc's shell when I need them. I suppose that if you only run the file manager when you need to manage files, your point of view makes sense.
I rarely do anything besides the basics (F5/F6) when managing files in MC, and for advanced stuff, like using rsync/rclone for moving files, I mostly use the usermenu.
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> Isn't this the point if TUI/GUI that you don't have to? No TUI/GUI can do everything a unix command prompt can do, can they? I don't know what your usage pattern is, but I keep mc open in a few terminals all the time, and just run commands in mc's shell when I need them. I suppose that if you only run the file manager when you need to manage files, your point of view makes sense.
Yeah, I don't generally live in MC to the same extent I do in DC when I'm on Windows. I rarely do anything besides the basics (F5/F6) when managing files in MC, and for advanced stuff, like using rsync/rclone for moving files, I mostly use the usermenu.
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I think it is interesting that these pieces of software are now being inspired by Midnight Commander and are being built by people who never worked with or experiences the original, Norton Commander.