mc Digest, Vol 146, Issue 10

[solarflow99]

Could this explain it?

  https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2016-October/msg00009.html




On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 3:07 AM, A.J. Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 10/15/2016 10:57 AM, Mike wrote:
>
>> I've never met Peter Norton. I think I installed some Norton software in
>> the 90s. I don't recall much about it or him so I have nothing to compare.
>> I think there is a nc clone/wannabee out there somewhere, but mc is only
>> similar by accident - the 2 panel thing. Apparently it is a "visual shell
>> for *nix environments", not a "file manager", although I categorize it as
>> one, like most users I think. midnight commander has its origins from the
>> 90s too. It sucked far worse back then.
>>
> Hey Mike,
>
> I used to love Norton Commander (nc) because of its function keys for copy
> and move in combination with easy selection of files. Those are the traits
> that mc copied from norton and made me start using MC. Probably MC also
> copied the editting. In comparison to DOS at the time, Norton Commander was
> really a breeze of fresh air. He really thought things through. When I
> switched to Linux I went  to MC and never looked back. He also made other
> more system oriented software for windows, but I am getting OT now.
>
> Anyway, I like MC for the same reasons and especially for the reason it is
> reliable. With one exception everything works as I expect it to. The
> exception is that sometimes the current directory is remembered when
> finishing MC, and sometimes it isn't and you end up in the original
> directory that you started MC. This usually happens after full upgrade or
> installing a new OS (Fedora -> Ubuntu or back)
>
> I haven't seen this for a while, so probably the setup of MC has improved.
> I work from Fedora 24 atm.
>
> Kind regards, Guus.
>
>
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