Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by BozeWolf on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:25AM (#26055608)

Voting this up, because mc is great and deserves more attention. Sometimes cp/mv/rm or grep just are not sufficient. Mc is great for browsing your filesystem quickly and for example copy partial content of certain directories only. I use it on macos and even on my vps. Using it since windows xp - when i switched to linux from scratch ;-)

That said, i am not sure what this fork adds. I know a lot of mc tricks, i use it a few times a week. But im not a shell, editor, whatever customizer anyways. So not sure if i would miss scripting. I like it if stuff works out of the box, which mc already does!

A few screenshots of those editing features would help. And maybe contribute some of those new features to the main project. Anyways, nice job!

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Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by NotPavlovsDog on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:41AM (#26056133)

Seconded! A double panel file manager is a very convenient concept, strongly suggest those that have not tried it do so!

I mostly use the core feature of organizing files such as downloads, moving from one folder to another; sorting by size, date, etc, for a quick overview. What would your tricks be?

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Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by tux1968 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:14PM (#26056818)

Not sure if it really qualifies as a trick, but the game changer for me was <ctrl-o>. Being able to pop into and out of MC from the shell, even while in the middle of typing a command is great. It's easy to ignore if the command line suffices, and instantly available when helpful.

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Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by rnd0 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:02PM (#26059397)

cd ftp://<whatever address> and then copying files remotely to whatever local location is my personal favorite.

I just tried and it also works for sftp as well! Though it doesn't seem to read ~/.ssh/authorized_keys -so you have to enter your password each time.

But typing something like cd sftp://<server>/<directory> is a great way to access my unsupported (no guest additions) virtual machines from WSL

There's one snag with ctrl-o; it only works for Linux consoles and xterms. It doesn't appear to work with a BSD (or whatever) console -at least it always gives me errors.

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Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by bayindirh on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:44PM (#26058031)

mc is a wonderful piece of software. We call it morton commander as an inside joke.

When I install a server the first command I run is

    <package_manager> install screen vim mc

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Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by You-Are-Right on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:05PM (#26059691)

Add multitail!

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Re:Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and oth... by bayindirh on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:00AM (#26061897)

Hmm, didn't know that one. Will take a look. Thanks!

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