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Midnight Commander (fork)

Two panels, an editor, a viewer, and a virtual filesystem. In a terminal.

This is a fork of GNU Midnight Commander, based on version 4.8.33. It runs on the OS console, in xterm, and over ssh.

It is not an official GNU package. Report issues here, not upstream. Version numbering is its own line and starts at v6.0.1.

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Releases	what changed in each version
Demos	how the recordings on this wiki are made
Coding style	conventions for patches
Source	the repository

What this fork adds

Panel plugins

A panel no longer has to show a directory. Its contents can come from a plugin loaded at runtime: git, docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, S3, FTP/FTPS, SFTP, Samba, systemd, shell connections, External Panelize, and arcmc. The old built-in ftpfs and sftpfs VFS modules are gone, replaced by the FTP and SFTP plugins.

The git panel lists working tree changes and opens a file's diff in place.

arcmc

An archive manager built on libarchive. Browse, create, pack and extract zip, 7z, tar.* and cpio, with progress and a working cancel.

Viewer

Structured data gets a tree instead of a wall of text. JSON, YAML, XML and HTML fold, expand, search, and hand you the path to the node under the cursor.

Logs get a live filter that keeps only the matching lines while you type, and you can jump between matches without leaving it.

The viewer also renders ANSI colour, replays terminal recordings, and streams output from a command that never ends.

Editor

Code folding, a browsable undo history, a macro explorer, and a plugin framework for extending the editor itself.

Embedded terminal

A shell inside the file manager. The panels follow its current directory.

Panels

View modes you can edit yourself, dialogs for managing key bindings and for learning what your terminal sends, and the classic flow of hiding a panel to get room for a command.

Building

./autogen.sh          # from a git checkout
./configure
make
sudo make install

INSTALL in the source tree lists the dependencies. mc --version identifies this fork.

Getting help

Press F1 inside mc, or read the mc(1), mcedit(1) and mcview(1) manual pages.

For a problem, open an issue with mc --version, your OS and distribution, and the compiler and configure flags if you know them. For a crash, attach a backtrace: gdb mc core, then where.

License

GNU General Public License, version 3 or any later version.