Talk:Midnight Commander

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Contents 1 Which Version? 2 Directory Sizes 3 Inaccuracy 4 Color Screenshot?

[edit] Which Version?

Midnight Commander seems to have become a terrible mess by 2006. It seems to have thousands of reported bugs, and lack serious ongoing maintenance. There are so many forks and versions it is impossible for casual user to know which one to try. The main article needs a serious version history/discussion, highlighting recommendations from someone knowledgeable about the best stable current version.

One easy-access path is gnu mc 4.6.1-pre4 included in Knoppix 4.0.2CD (Utilities>Tools>mc).

What is the best easiest most stable simple version for Windows users to try? 69.87.193.48 23:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

It's not good, but it's not that bad. It might be worth mentioning mc snapshots in the article. It's not vigorously maintained, but it's not dead. And, regarding the forks, those are basically dead. The only real mc is at ibiblio. And, as most (all?) distros come with it already, it's easy enough to get. True, though, this isn't going to be a featured article any time soon.

(Oh, and as far as Windows, I don't know of a version other than the one you get with cygwin.) 216.77.227.14 07:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Directory Sizes

4.6.1 does have a "show directory sIzes" command (in the Command pull-down menu). Not convenient, no short-cut available, doesn't seem to be any way to map one either. No mode availble to turn on the display of directory sizes. And when you ask for the sizes of something big, it seems to lock up the computer while it does the calculation! 69.87.193.48 23:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inaccuracy

I'm deleting 'mcedit is a separate executable, which can also be used independently of Midnight Commander'.

:file `which mcedit`
/usr/bin/mcedit: symbolic link to `mc'

:file -L `which mcedit`
/usr/bin/mcedit: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), \
for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped

Also read the man page. There is a 'cooledit' which is supposedly the original codebase for the mcedit code of mc, but mcedit is builtin. 216.77.227.14 07:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Color Screenshot?

Or at least mc in a white-on-black terminal. But really, you almost never see it without color. 216.77.227.14 07:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)