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Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

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Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

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Post by pantulis »

Some colleagues believed I was some kind of Unix demigod when they were working with SunOS ksh command line and I had my own copy of mc (probably downloaded from Solaris Freeware site or something like that).

There's one powerful thing that mc does and almost any other dual file manager omits: it has the concept of "pop up menus" for commonly used commands --with the option of sending the selected file(s). Also, these menus can be global or local, configured for each specific folder or in my case working copies of some proprietary version control repositories (Subversion was too cool then).

Not only viewing files with F3 instead of using 'more' made you go significantly faster when there was no IDE to quickly grok a codebase, in ancient times where version control and diffing and merging was not exactly like today this was extremely powerful, only surpassed by Emacs.

Edit: to add that in macOS Forklift has something like this in a specific "Tools" section.

Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

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Post by ihateolives »

janandonly wrote: post #18

I loved using Total Commander back when I used windows. There is nothing like this for the macOS as far as I know.

Commander One. https://ftp-mac.com/?utm_source=c1app&utm_medium=software&ut...

They advertise as secure ftp solution, but in fact it's a full featured dual pane file manager.

Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

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Post by mariusor »

butz wrote: post #35

For users prefering GUI applications, I would like to suggest Sunflower FM, a GTK3 based dual-pane file manager: https://sunflower-fm.org/ As usual with such applications it seems to be a bit on hiatus, but maybe some developers would be interested to lend a hand?

Also double commander is pretty good, I remember it having both Qt and GTK interfaces. Also it's almost a one to one clone of Total Commander, the greatest orthodox file manager in existence.

Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

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Post by usrbinbash »

butz wrote: post #35

For users prefering GUI applications, I would like to suggest Sunflower FM, a GTK3 based dual-pane file manager: https://sunflower-fm.org/ As usual with such applications it seems to be a bit on hiatus, but maybe some developers would be interested to lend a hand?

And for users of GUIs who are (understandably) fed up with GNOME and all the GTK Stuff, I can wholeheartedly recommend Dolphin, KDEs standard filebrowser.

Which isn't on Hiatus, doesn't require GTK, and has switchable Split views (aka. dual-pane), and tabs (where each tab may have its own split view).

Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

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Post by lencastre »

It's just frustrating to use autocomplete on the $ shell, it's so ubiquitous to to use Tab to autocomplete that within mc it switches panes. I cannot discover how to "Esc Tab", because pressing Esc then Tab does not autocomplete, pressing and holding Esc then Tab, also doesn't autocomplete, other than that it's the good'ol souped up norton commander.
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