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Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by candidtim »

Shameless plug: https://github.com/candidtim/f2-commander

I've been working on "F2 Commander" on and off for a while now. At first, I wanted a TUI to view the contents of cloud storage buckets (GCS, S3, etc.), but it quickly evolved into an orthodox file manager. The funny thing is, the first version was in Common Lisp, but then I discovered Textual and was instantly sold on it - it's really fun to work with. The app scratches my itch, and although most of the time I myself prefer just using the regular command line, I open it up when I need to quickly navigate or move some files in a complex directory tree.

[1] https://textual.textualize.io/

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by bvrmn »

I have fond memories for mc during my transition from Windows and trying to replace DOS Navigator and Far Manager with something similar. Started to use ranger a long ago though and never came back.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by mark_l_watson »

unixhero wrote: post #126
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

Thanks, your comment was the one I was looking for, even though I had guessed that ‘brew install mc’ would work. I am curious how mc will fit in with tmux and emacs-nw.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by varjag »

axiolite wrote: post #51

I never could use mc. None of the keyboard shortcuts were at all intuitive to me, who had been using many different GUI file managers over the decades. Which is a shame, because I use SSH a LOT and doing normal file housework via pure CLI is super tedious and error-prone... Fortunately, I went looking more recently, and found the nnn file manager, which works properly with the basic keyboard commands I would expect,…

It's a heavily GenX-coded tool. If you never used Norton Commander there's no point really.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by MangoToupe »

I'm a little surprised graphical file management is so popular. I use the command line for almost everything (ie using unix utilities to manage files), and I am a little mystified as to what people do with their computers such that file management is so time consuming it benefits from stuff like this.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by mark_l_watson »

viraptor wrote: post #101
roywashere wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And who started Gnome Desktop! That always strikes me as funny. That he made the ultimate tool for in the terminal, and then move on to write a desktop environment

And now porting Godot to iPads as Xodot. https://xogot.com/

Wow, I have absolutely no need for access to a game engine but I still will do the free trial. Some complaints about cost but $3 per week or $30 per year seems reasonable enough. I am a fan of the Swift Playground.

Starting when I wrote the Chess program that Apple distributed on their Apple II demo cassette tape, I have been interested in writing games for fun. Unfortunately, while I can code, I need artists and generally people with ‘game design style’ to do anything decent - I had that when I worked at Angel Studios.

Re: GNU Midnight Commander

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Post by throw0101d »

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...

> This origin is elaborated at length here: https://softpanorama.org/Articles/introduction_to_orthodox_f...

Also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_file_manager

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