Shameless plug for my more modern, GUI alternative to Midnight Commander, https://fman.io .
Please explain, how is a GUI file manager an alternative to a CLI based one?
Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
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Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#42No file manager has ever approached the productivity I had when using XTree Gold for DOS... ZTree is a modern, but commercial version.
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#43I've been using Marta on the Mac ( https://marta.sh ) and I really enjoy having a dual-pane file manager with an integrated terminal where navigating the folder hierarchy is synchronised in both directions. Marta doesn't seem to be actively developed anymore, so if anyone know of a good alternative I am all ears. fman (https:/fman.io) looks nice, but I don't think it has terminal integration.
You can install Midnight Commander on a Mac as well.
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also can open/browse archive files without unpacking first.
It unpacks them in a temporary directory.
Depends on the archive type and how the vfs/extfs code was implemented for it¹. It also depends on how the archive is treated if it is compressed container, which can be seen by looking at how a .tar and .tar.xz are handled for example. The zip handler is probably the easiest to understand, as it doesn't need to contend with external compression wrappers and is a simple perl script. (In some cases it would probably be nicer if it did extract the entire archive to tmpfs, such as when you independently pull a few files from a massive .deb for example)
Implementing your own extfs scripts to wrap a simple menu around some task can be really useful, far beyond basic archives. I wrote one so that I can shuffle my todo list priorities by moving fake "task files" in to different pseudo-directories.
¹ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#45there is a newcomer into the terminal file managers arena that looks like it's going to be what I was looking for https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi (sort of ranger/vifm written in rust, lots of momentum)
Hm. That sixel support does look really nice. It’s something I miss with vifm.
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#46On Windows, try Altap Salamander. It's free and open-source.
Another option for windows is ZTreeWin (a clone of the old XTree Gold).
Fully keyboard based, and has a shortcut (F8) that goes into split screen mode if you need.
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#47I've been using Marta on the Mac ( https://marta.sh ) and I really enjoy having a dual-pane file manager with an integrated terminal where navigating the folder hierarchy is synchronised in both directions. Marta doesn't seem to be actively developed anymore, so if anyone know of a good alternative I am all ears. fman (https:/fman.io) looks nice, but I don't think it has terminal integration.
It's not actively developed, but not abandoned either, if you judge by the closing of issues in the dedicated repository. It's also my file manager of choice (minimalist UI but reasonably featured).
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#48Or you can try FAR Manager. It kept me from switching from Windows to Linux for a long time, back in 2000-s. It's now available on macOS and Linux.
Double Commander is also good for those, who used to Total Commander.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/latest/down...
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#49On Windows, try Altap Salamander. It's free and open-source.
There's the free & open source clone of Total Commander - Double Commander. It's compatible with TC extensions, and just like TC also written in FreePascal.
Re: Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
#50I loved using Total Commander back when I used windows. There is nothing like this for the macOS as far as I know.
Double Commander is what you are looking for:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/latest/down...