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Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by unixhero »

xdkyx wrote: post #102

I used to install Windows Commander (later Total Commander) on every system I have used, so much so that I bought the Total Commander licence. However as time passes by I used it less and less, to the point that currently I run it once a month out of pure nostalgia.

I still use it. Did you know it supports extensions? Such as being able to explore SQLite files and so on. A Polish team has put toghether as many extensions as possible into a self contained installer-distro for Total Commander. It is called Total Commander Ultima Prime. I enjoy it a lot.

https://tcup.pl

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by snvzz »

w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #118

I've always found Midnight Commander to be underrated, perhaps because it "looks old". I still recommend checking it out if you want a terminal-based file manager. In case you do prefer GUIs, consider DoubleCommander.

Worker[0] is a mature double panel GUI file manager that's often overlooked.

0. http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by abcd_f »

Klaster_1 wrote: post #22
userbinator wrote: post #12

dual-pane file manager For some reason, the technical term for these is Orthodox File Manager , which I've always thought was an obscure cultural in-joke from the countries where these were most popular --- Eastern Europe and the former USSR. This origin is elaborated at length here: https://softpanorama.org/Articles/introduction_to_orthodox_f...

At least in Russia, "orthodox" has an extra connotation that's not strictly coupled to church, akin more to "one true way", as in "orthodox way to learn a tech stack". With a negation, it becomes something like "wrong" or even "heretical", as in "pizza with pineapple".

This is incorrect.

Ортодоксальный doesn't carry these connotations at all.

If anything, it describes something that is stuck in old ways and/or pointlessly rigid.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by unixhero »

hxorr wrote: post #107

I am especially fond of mcedit, the midnight commander editor which can be run independently. Very easy to pick up and use as a casual user as opposed to something like vi

Yes its really great. You should check out Jed's editor on Linux and MultiEdit on MSdos. It continues in the same spirit as MCView. Both are definitely inspired by Turbo Pascal.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by unixhero »

aquir wrote: post #62

After moving from Windows to MacOS mc is the closest to Total Commander - the only software that I’m still missing from MacOS. Reminds me to DOS Navigator and Volkov Commander or even FAR

Midnight Commander is available under Brew.

https://brew.sh/

The command to install it is:

brew install mc

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by unixhero »

pantulis wrote: post #36

The killer feature in mc was the popup menu that you could configure to run several commands on the selected files. And if memory serves it could be customized on a global or directory specific way.

Which menu is that? I never tried it. Been an MC user since 1997.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by unixhero »

mischief6 wrote: post #52

my one gripe after using mc for a few years is no parallel transfer support. it slows down significantly when transferring small files compared to one large file.

That I agree with. In Total Commander I typically do F5 copy and then put it in the background F2. Then start another.

This isn't possible in MC. And also a concrete parallelization is not available. This sounds like a feasible feature request to the upstream MC project! I'm sure Gnu Parallel or just pure C code would be able to handle parallelization of copy jobs.

EDIT: Wait! It does have background transfer now. Which means my technique of how I do it in Total Commander will work in MC now as well. It is almost like having Parallelization.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by KaiserPro »

I never understood the fervent love for midnight/norton commander. Its not like its a new phenomenon. I remember people raving about it in the late 90s too.

is it nostalgia, or is it really that useful?

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