Midnight Commander Development Revived 304
richlv writes "Popular Unix console file manager Midnight Commander has experienced a stall for the last few years. Most distributions (including the conservative Slackware) shipped patched packages or snapshots. Despite that, everybody had a favorite bug or two — either inability to specify ssh connection port, or problems with interrupted FTP sessions. Or maybe copying of larger datasets. Or maybe the infamous 'shell is still active' message, which often brought unexpected changes of current directory with it. Whatever it was, we either cursed it every time, or learned to live with it. It seems that finally something many were waiting for has happened — there's some activity on mc development. Check out the new homepage, and let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy."
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah! Let's post about some obscure piece of software so unused not even unemployed open sores "programmers" want to touch it.
Congratulations, you have officially identified yourself as completely clueless.
Re:Norton is going to be pissed... (Score:2, Informative)
How about not needing an X-Windows environment?
IANACLH (Score:3, Informative)
I am not a command line hacker - mc has always been a VERY important tool I install in just about every box I've ever set up.
Glad to see it's not forgotten about
Re:Norton is going to be pissed... (Score:3, Informative)
How do I use konqueror with frames and fish on my web tablet? :-)
MC is self-contained, relatively easy to install, fast, and works with vanilla ssh. Not sure what frames and fish are (links?), but I'd be surprised if they were as easy to install for a non-root user (as I often am).
Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy (Score:4, Informative)
Sorry for this.
There are currently over 2000 different IPs online on the webserver _per minute_. We are currently looking for a solution to fix this as fast as possible :S Sorry for the downtime (and thanks for your excellent DoS! :))
Re:Norton is going to be pissed... (Score:3, Informative)
Frames are just that, frames. Like in a web browser, but instead for your file browser. Pretty simple. MC has 2 frames, konquorer can have as many frames as you like.
FiSH is a Filesystem over SsH. Put fish://user@host/path/ in your konqueror address bar and you can browse a remote filesystem just as if it were local. It all works out of the box too, really nice.
Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy (Score:5, Informative)
Okay.. thanks for taking down my/our webserver.. however most of the people will be interested in the sourcecode (at least I hope so).
For those which only want to have the code, please have a look on this git mirror:
http://repo.or.cz/w/midnight-commander.git
as I've currently took down the webserver because it makes no sense to let him running this way. I'll search for a solution as fast as possible.
Greetings
Patrick Winnertz
on behalf of the MC Development Team
Re:Arg! not mc again!! (Score:3, Informative)
The function key line showing "10 QUIT" is displayed on the bottom left by default, the "eXit" option is displayed under the File menu in an obvious place at the bottom, and typing "exit" at the command line will exit the program just like it does any other shell.
With all due respect, what other information would you like? And how more obvious could it be?
I agree that quitting isn't obvious if you don't think of it as a shell AND if you don't have your F-keys properly defined in your xterm or ssh client, but that's a user issue, IMO.
Equating the mc UI with the vi UI is ... silly.
Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy (Score:2, Informative)
I remember before Linux my first hint at this was Volvalk|sp?| Commander,
Volkov Commander [egner-online.de]? (Warning: The URL given links to a page that may cause uncontrollable flashbacks to the Web circa 1995. Proceed with caution.)
Re:Who needs MC ... (Score:4, Informative)
You can FUD like the best of em, I give you that.
I have MCs still running that were started 3 years ago (and used, too !), so bollocks on the crashes.
Corrupts files ? Care to give an example ? At least I have not run into such a bug.
I'll give GnuIT another look. Last time I tried it, I went back to mc.
Re:bleh. (Score:3, Informative)
Krusader is the best commander like gui for Linux. Give it a shot.
Re:Arg! not mc again!! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Arg! not mc again!! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy (Score:3, Informative)
Krusader. It's the KDE based MC clone.
I'm sure there are purists out there who don't want the KDE libs on their machines or aren't into this newfangled GUI stuff. Who want that horrible looking interface on a console. But me, I think Krusader is way slicker than MC.
And did I say TABS? Sweeet.