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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)
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)
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)
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)
I remember before Nautilus existed, there was a program for GNOME called GNU Midnight Commander which was a graphical file manager, seemingly unrelated to the curses application. Some other articles, like the one for Nautilus, mention this, linking here. But I don't see it in this article. 174.21.17.91 ( talk) 16:25, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The article does not have any information when did MC project started and when was first version released and when 1.0 version got released. Who started to develop it and it would be nice to have screenshots from the first versions as well. Now the article is more like a marketing trick than article in a enclycopedia. Golftheman ( talk) 17:38, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
It's fair to list Miguel as the originator, but it's been quite a while since he was involved with the development TEDickey ( talk) 20:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
The tags added by 77.120.52.136 point out that these programs have no WP:RS other than primary sources. It's likely that someone can provide reliable secondary sources discussing Midnight Commander TEDickey ( talk) 13:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
As a non-OS computer program, oughtn't Midnight Commander be italicized, in the same manner as Norton Commander? —catsmoke talk 03:26, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
I remember before Nautilus existed, there was a program for GNOME called GNU Midnight Commander which was a graphical file manager, seemingly unrelated to the curses application. Some other articles, like the one for Nautilus, mention this, linking here. But I don't see it in this article. 174.21.17.91 ( talk) 16:25, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The article does not have any information when did MC project started and when was first version released and when 1.0 version got released. Who started to develop it and it would be nice to have screenshots from the first versions as well. Now the article is more like a marketing trick than article in a enclycopedia. Golftheman ( talk) 17:38, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
It's fair to list Miguel as the originator, but it's been quite a while since he was involved with the development TEDickey ( talk) 20:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
The tags added by 77.120.52.136 point out that these programs have no WP:RS other than primary sources. It's likely that someone can provide reliable secondary sources discussing Midnight Commander TEDickey ( talk) 13:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
As a non-OS computer program, oughtn't Midnight Commander be italicized, in the same manner as Norton Commander? —catsmoke talk 03:26, 23 June 2022 (UTC)