Questions tagged [midnight-commander]
Midnight commander is a dual paned, curses based file manager with a text user interface, inspired by Norton Commander
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Sizes of the panels in Midnight Commander
Can I change the height of the panels in Midnight Commander like in Far (pressing Control+Up or Control+Down )?
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Midnight Commander function keys not working
I'm using Midnight Commander in a Mac Terminal. I'm using PC keyboard, so function keys work as F1-F12 keys, but they don't work in MC. I tested what character sequence is sent with each function key ...
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Git integration for midnight commander or alternatives
Does Midnight Commander offer support for Git like highlighting changed / added files or is there an alternative File Manager supporting this?
Update:
Something similar to WebStorm/IntelliJ ...
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Weird Midnight Commander look in tmux
How to fix this mc look in tmux session?
This is how mc looks without tmux
I have export TERM=xterm-256color in .bash_profile
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" in .tmux.conf file
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Editor in panel - Midnight Commander
Is it possible to set the other panel display mode to editor view in midnight commander?
Something like the panel quick view display mode (ctrl+x,q) with the ability to modify the content.
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Slow midnight commander startup
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.
I'm midnight commander user. When i starts terminal and then type "mc", it starts immediately. But i don't want to type it every time i open terminal. So i added "mc" to end of ....
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Defining Midnight Commander's External Editor on Windows
I'm new to Midnight Commander. Very impressed so far. I'm working in both Mac OS and Windows, and would like to use vim as my external editor. That seems to be the default external editor on the Mac, ...
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How do I get a proper subshell in mc's mcedit?
I can use the shell from mc when pressing Ctrl+O and when using Debian, I can also use that shortcut from mcedit.
However, in Ubuntu, this will only show the shell but I cannot enter anything.
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How can I get all of my keys and mouse to work using Midnight Commander on OSX?
I used port to install it and I figured out how to fix home/end/pgup/pgdn in the terminal preferences, but still,
none of the keypad keys work.
the mouse doesn't work.
Any assistance would be ...
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Why can the tree view of MC have a folder as root in the version for PowerShell but not the version for Bash?
MC (Midnight Commander) has versions for both Linux Bash and Windows PowerShell. It has tree view but the feature seems different.
In order to open a tree view with a folder as root of the tree on the ...
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How to set Lynx like motions in mc globally
I love the feature Lynx like motion in Midnight commander. Whenever I access new system, this is the first thing I customize. Now I am on a server with lots of system accounts and it becomes annoying. ...
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Using img2txt in Midnight Commander
As far as I know it is possible to use img2txt with Midnight Commander as described here. My question is how to setup (in details) img2txt on Mac and how to use it with MC.
OS: macOS High Sierra 10....
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When mc runs as root doesn't obey bindings
I created a bindings file for mc that opens geeqie file viewer when my user presses Enter on a [jJ][pP][gG] file.
Copied that bindings file from ~./config/mc/bindings to /root/.config/mc/. When I ...
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midnight commander: VFS does not work for tar.xz
In my mc.ext I have following rule for tar.xz files:
regex/\.t(ar\.xz|xz)$
Open=%cd %p/utar://
View=%view{ascii} xz -dc %f 2>/dev/null | tar tvvf -
But, when I press Enter in mc on foo....
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virtual filesystems appear to be limited on win32 build of Midnight Commander
I installed Midnight Commander 4.8.7 on my windows machine at work.
2 of the features that I would love to use are the virtual filesystems for zip files and ssh.
But the only virtual filesystem that ...
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Midnight Commander copy/rename with replaced characters
I would like to copy/rename (F5/F6) with regex (regular expression) mask all the tagged files or directories with names containing space or á or é characters replaced with underscore and a and e ...
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Midnight Commander Woes: Output while panels are active, and tab completion
I'm trying out midnight commander (loved Norton back in the day!) and I'm finding two things hard to work out. I'm curious if there's ways around this or not however.
1) If the panels are active and ...
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Can't save password for ssh
Linux Mint 20.3
Midnight Commander hotlist file content:
GROUP "Server"
ENTRY "/sh://[email protected]/opt/server" URL "/sh://root:[email protected]/opt/server"
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Increasing Midninght commander dark white contrast
Midnight commander is used from putty client from Windows 10 in Debian 10.
Its file names are low contract (dark white) and are difficult to read notebook screen in heavy sunlight:
Directory names ...
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Attach to Midnight Commander session
I found kind of hard but I can't attach to MC session.
I tried to find something in tutorials in internet but there is nothing about detached/attached MC. I've detached it by... mistake, but there is ...
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disable scroll on mouse click in Midnight commander's mcview
I use Midnight commander and it's mcview a lot to browse log files. I often want to use mouse to select text and copy it, but if I click in the text mcview will scroll. I tried to disable it by ...
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Midnight Commander Editor status line decryption
What is mcedit status line symbol decryption?
There are 4 status symbol places there:
B -- Block text selection
M -- Modified
(I don't know)
O -- I don't know
I also don't understand what is 1+ in ...
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More visible space in Midnight Commander for command lines
I want more space as shown here:
How can I get it?
UPD: There is FAR on the screenshot, but seems mc support this feature too: F9 > Options > Layout > Console output. But it do not works: upstream ...
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How to make one Midnight Commander tab a shell?
Is it possible to turn one (either left or right) tab of MC into a shell?
So I can type command in shell and see a full output and see the directories and files at once?
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MC on Ubuntu: Save cursor in editor when leaving it
I am using midnight commander (mc) on ubuntu and have figured out that after editing or viewing a file and leaving it the cursor position is not saved after opening it once again.
Does anybody know ...