MC (GNU Midnight Commander) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994.
Questions tagged [mc]
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How to open the same directory in another panel in Midnight Commander?
In Midnight Commander, how to quickly set the right panel to the same directory as the left panel (and vice versa)?
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How can I stop seeing hidden files in the Midnight Commander?
The Midnight Commander is a very helpful tool when we're using only the text mode. But sometimes it bothers me that I have to see all the hidden files inside a folder (files that begin with ".").
I've tried to find how to do it changing some…
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Slow start of Midnight Commander
Is there any way to prevent mc from taking 10-30 seconds to open?
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How to set default editor/viewer for Midnight Commander to Sublime
The question is quite straightforward, so no further description is needed according to me.
I just add that I am running Ubuntu 13.04.
Any help is welcomed.
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Go to file/directory in Midnight Commander by typing
One thing I really miss in Midnight Commander (compared to some GUI file explorers, like f.e. Thunar) is the ability to go to a certain directory by just typing prefix of its name.
For example for a current directory…
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How to use command line completion in Midnight Commander?
An essential convenience feature every reasonable shell provides is command / file name completion (usually triggered by pressing Tab). I miss it heavily when I use command line in Midnight Commander. Is there a way to use it (other than by hiding…
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Does mc (Midnight Commander) have favourites for directories?
If I am in remote directory on different server via ssh I want to do to directory like /var/lib/edumate/backup without typing the whole path. Is there any way to do that in mc?
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Why does F10 in gnome-terminal open the right-click menu?
I am running Fedora 17 gnome (shell) 3 and gnome terminal 3.4.1.1.
I am a user of both gnome-terminal and midnight commander. As default gnome-terminal has always used F10 (which I need while using mc), to opening the top menu. So was this time. I…
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Midnight Commander: How to format file size as a number with digit group separators?
When dealing with large files in Midnight Commander, I have difficulties counting the digits to get the order of magnitude of the file size (hundreds of MB, or tens of GB, etc.).
Sometimes, I use the trick to press the Insert key, which highlights…
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How to connect through sftp to a non-standard port on Midnight Commander?
In Midnight Commander one can make an SFTP connection to a remote machine using:
cd #sh:[email protected]:/home/username/
How can this be done when the remote machine is using a non-standard port?
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Natural sort order in Midnight Commander
How can I fix sort order in Midnight Commander to sort numbers correctly?
I need such order:
1.png
9.png
10.png
19.png
22.png
a.png
test.png
z.png
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Configure MC and aptitude color schemes
I'm using Ubuntu, and I'm having trouble reading text in MC and Aptitude because of the color scheme. Is there any way to change it?
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Is there are any documentation about user-defined menu in midnight-commander?
I'd like to create my own user-defined menu for mc (menu file).
I see some lines like
+ t r & ! t t
or
+ t t
What does it mean?
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Midnight Commander config dir location startup option
If you run
mc -F
you'll see there are [System data] config directory and [User data] config directory
[System data]
Config directory: /etc/mc/
[User data]
Config directory: /home//.config/mc/
First is system-wide, the second is User…
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Perform commands on selected items in Midnight Commander
How can I perform a command on the selected items ?
for example calling vim, or gimp for the 5 text or image files selected.
I tried to make use of the inlined command line at the bottom, but it doesn't take my selection into account
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