Hello,

Herewith a cool poll on the legendary Midnight Commander.

Is there any reasons to code something like Midnight Commander on Linux, since there is already MC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
For those that are used to Windows, MC is like the original first two panel file browser:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander

Do you need an alternative to Midnight Commander for your terminal (Mac, Windows, Linux)?


Mister Xeratux

I rather like Midnight Commander. It does have some issues, like after copying files back-and-forth to my external hd - no commands work anymore, and I have to completely exit and restart it, other than that it is great, and I hope it is further maintained. So I vote no.

Norton Commander was only one of the DOS shells available. Xtree was imho far and away the best, and I believe XTree was also the first one available. Xtree was released maybe 5 years before Norton Commander.

I don't see any reason to re-do mc, unless you have some idea of a missing feature that would make it worth the effort. I use it daily on all the servers I maintain via ssh. There are a couple quirks with mc I haven't been able to resolve, such as getting it to shell out to bash when running in a jailkit chroot jail but for me mc is indispensable. I was happy when I found there is a windows port, I use mc on my widows machines too.

While writing this, I got inspired and installed mc in bash for windows on Windows 10! Works fine.

I voted 'yes' because I would like to see the return of mc-light.

I use vifm https://vifm.info/

I tried once, but never understood how it works.

lfm was cool but its buggy and not coded in C at all

If you've used vi(m), vifm will be familiar, as it uses vi(m) keystrokes.

I am not nearly so adept at mc as I would like to be (okay, I'm lazy), but it has done everything I've asked it to do.

At mc, I miss the look of NC and the moving cursors hjkl <- you know the one everyone shall use under the tradition of Linux and Unix/Slackware/Openbsd