Midnight Commander
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750 Apr 22, 2015 3:00 PM EDT |
I early on dismissed this as just another dual column manager, and i can't get my head around those. But then i poked around some while bored, and found that i could make a pane full width, while also being able to tab into the other pane for when i need to do file copies. And i could make the pane show just the info i needed. And just today i found that yes i can do SSH file transfers as well, by doing "cd sh://ip-address:port/". All of a sudden mc became one hell of a cure all for my file management blues. |
ljmp Apr 22, 2015 5:09 PM EDT |
I've tried Midnight Commander several times. I just don't like it. Kind of me trying emacs. I just don't like that program either... I've tried to like these things - but I don't... My favorite GUI file manager, PCManFM, also can connect to a remote filesystem through ssh. I'm sure Nautilus can too -- but that's a Gnome thing, and so requires the user to load 46,619 dependencies. The wonderful and terrible thing about GNU/Linux systems is that one can transfer files and connect things in any one or 20 of 40 different methods simultaneously. |
jdixon Apr 23, 2015 2:27 AM EDT |
> ...but that's a Gnome thing, and so requires the user to load 46,619 dependencies. The worst thing is that's almost the truth. |
penguinist Apr 23, 2015 7:53 AM EDT |
ditto for KDE apps... |
jacog Apr 23, 2015 10:14 AM EDT |
At work I run awm, with the idea being that I'd do things faster if I elimimate the mouse where possible. This has lead me to start using console equivalents of a lot of apps, which includes mc. End result is indeed that things get done faster and with the bonus that my desktop looks like that of some mad Hollywood hacker. |
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