Parent: [[Applications]] = mc = The midnight commander is an indispensable tool for working with files and the dir-tree. Install via '''sudo apt-get install mc''' put {{{ export TERM="xterm-256color" }}} at the bottom (top, if ineffective) of your ~/.bashrc file. Thus you can load skins as in {{{ mc -S sand256.ini }}} In {{{ /home/you/.config/mc/ini }}} have the lines: {{{ [Midnight-Commander] skin=sand256 }}} for preset skin. Newer '''mc''' version offer to choose a preset skin from within the '''menu''' and save it in the above ini file, relieving you of the above manual step. Many people don't know that mc has a multi-window text-editor built-in (eerily disabled by default) with macro capability and all sorts of goodies. run {{{ mc -e my.txt }}} to edit directly. Be aware that many skins break the special characters for sorting filenames reverse up/down unless one works hard with locale parameters and what not. Few people in the world know how to do that properly. In below screenshot you see "arrowdown n" over the filename list to indicate sort order. In many xterm, you will get ??? instead so you might resort to unskin and go to "default skin" setting with ugly colours. The below CTRL-O hotkey starts what mc calls a subshell. If you run mc a second time in a "subshell", mc will not remind you of the CTRL-O hotkey (as if the world only knows 3 hotkeys) but will start mc with no deeper "subshell" iteration possible, unless one modifies the sources. == important hotkeys == {1} '''CTRL-O''' - disappear the panels to work the [[CLI]] , CTRL-O again brings back the panels {2} '''ALT NUM-x''' - tag all files or dirs (e.g. for later copying) {3} '''INSERT''' or '''CTRL-T''' or RIGHT-click - tag one of above, nextline {{attachment:mc2.png}} ---- CategoryCommandLine CategoryApplications CategorySoftware CategoryGNU vvvvvv [[yaourt]]