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.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf8 -*-
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.\"TOPICS "Topics:"
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.TH MC 1 "%DATE_OF_MAN_PAGE%" "MC Version %DISTR_VERSION%" "GNU Midnight Commander"
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.\"SKIP_SECTION"
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.SH "NAME"
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mc \- Visual shell for Unix\-like systems.
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.\"SKIP_SECTION"
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.SH "USAGE"
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.B mc
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[\-abcCdfhPstuUVx] [\-l log] [dir1 [dir2]] [\-e [file] ...] [\-v file]
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.\"NODE "DESCRIPTION"
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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GNU Midnight Commander is a directory browser/file manager for
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Unix\-like operating systems.
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.\"NODE "OPTIONS"
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.\"DONT_SPLIT"
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.SH "OPTIONS"
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.TP
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.I \-a, \-\-stickchars
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Disable usage of graphic characters for line drawing.
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.TP
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.I \-b, \-\-nocolor
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Force black and white display.
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.TP
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.I \-c, \-\-color
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Force color mode, please check the section
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.\"LINK2"
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Colors
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.\"Colors"
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for more information.
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.TP
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.I \-C arg, \-\-colors=arg
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Specify a different color set in the command line. The format of arg is
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documented in the
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.\"LINK2"
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Colors
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.\"Colors"
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section.
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.TP
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.I \-\-configure\-options
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Display configure options.
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.TP
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.I \-d, \-\-nomouse
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Disable mouse support.
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.TP
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.I \-D N, \-\-debuglevel=N
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Save the debug level for SMB VFS. N is in 0\-10 range.
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.TP
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.I \-e [file], \-\-edit[=file]
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Start the internal editor. If the file is specified, open it on
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startup. See also
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.BR "mcedit (1)" .
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.TP
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.I \-f, \-\-datadir
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Display the compiled\-in search paths for Midnight Commander files.
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.TP
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.I \-F, \-\-datadir\-info
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Display extended info about compiled\-in paths for
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Midnight Commander.
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.TP
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.I \-g, \-\-oldmouse
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Force a "normal tracking" mouse mode. Used when running on
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xterm\-capable terminals (tmux/screen).
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.TP
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.I \-k, \-\-resetsoft
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Reset softkeys to their default from the termcap/terminfo
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database. Only useful on HP terminals when the function keys don't work.
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.TP
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.I \-K file, \-\-keymap=file
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Specify a name of keymap file in the command line.
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.TP
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.I \-l file, \-\-ftplog=file
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Save the ftpfs dialog with the server in file.
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.TP
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.I \-\-nokeymap
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Don't load key bindings from any file, use default hardcoded keys.
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.TP
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.I \-P file, \-\-printwd=file
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Print the last working directory to the specified file. This option is
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not meant to be used directly. Instead, it's used from a special shell
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script that automatically changes the current directory of the shell to
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the last directory the Midnight Commander was in. Source the file
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.B %libexecdir%/mc/mc.sh
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(bash and zsh users) or
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.B %libexecdir%/mc.csh
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(tcsh users) respectively to define
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.B mc
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as an alias to the appropriate shell script.
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.TP
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.I \-s, \-\-slow
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Set alternative mode drawing of frameworks.
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If the section [Lines] is not filled, the symbol for the pseudographics
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frame is a space, otherwise the frame characters are taken from follow params.
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.B You can redefine the following variables:
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.TP
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.B lefttop
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left\-top corner
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.TP
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.B righttop
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right\-top corner
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.TP
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.B centertop
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center\-top cross
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.TP
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.B centerbottom
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center\-bottom cross
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.TP
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.B leftbottom
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left\-bottom corner
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.TP
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.B rightbottom
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right\-bottom corner
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.TP
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.B leftmiddle
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left\-middle cross
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.TP
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.B rightmiddle
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right\-middle cross
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.TP
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.B centermiddle
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center cross
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.TP
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.B horiz
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default horizontal line
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.TP
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.B vert
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default vertical line
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.TP
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.B thinhoriz
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thin horizontal line
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.TP
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.B thinvert
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thin vertical line
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.TP
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.I \-S arg, \-\-skin=arg
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Specify a name of skin in the command line. Technology of skins is
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documented in the
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.\"LINK2"
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Skins
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.\"Skins"
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section.
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.TP
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.I \-t, \-\-termcap
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Used only if the code was compiled with Slang and terminfo: it makes
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the Midnight Commander use the value of the
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.B TERMCAP
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variable for the terminal information instead of the information on
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the system wide terminal database
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.TP
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.I \-u, \-\-nosubshell
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Disable use of the concurrent shell (only makes sense if the Midnight
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Commander has been built with concurrent shell support).
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.TP
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.I \-U, \-\-subshell
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Enable use of the concurrent shell support (only makes sense if the
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Midnight Commander was built with the subshell support set as an
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optional feature).
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.TP
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.I \-v file, \-\-view=file
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Start the internal viewer to view the specified file. See also
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.BR "mcview (1)" .
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.TP
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.I \-V, \-\-version
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Display the version of the program.
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.TP
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.I \-x, \-\-xterm
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Force xterm mode. Used when running on xterm\-capable terminals (two
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screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences).
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.TP
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.I \-X, \-\-no\-x11
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Do not use X11 to get the state of modifiers Alt, Ctrl, Shift
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.PP
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If both paths are specified, the first path name is the directory to show
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in the active panel; the second path name is the directory to be shown in
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the other panel.
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.PP
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If one path is specified, the path name is the directory to show
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in the active panel; value of "other_dir" from panels.ini is the directory
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to be shown in the passive panel.
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.PP
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If no paths are specified, current directory is shown in the active panel;
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value of "other_dir" from panels.ini is the directory to be shown in
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the passive panel.
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.\"NODE "Overview"
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.SH "Overview"
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The screen of the Midnight Commander is divided into four parts.
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Almost all of the screen space is taken up by two directory panels.
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By default, the second line from the bottom of the screen is the
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shell command line, and the bottom line shows the function key labels.
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The topmost line is the
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.\"LINK2"
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menu bar line\&.
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.\"Menu Bar"
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The menu bar line may not be visible, but appears if you click the
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topmost line with the mouse or press the F9 key.
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.PP
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The Midnight Commander provides a view of two directories at the same
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time. One of the panels is the current panel (a selection bar is in
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the current panel). Almost all operations take place on the current
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panel. Some file operations like Rename and Copy by default use the
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directory of the unselected panel as a destination (don't worry, they
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always ask you for confirmation first). For more information, see the
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sections on the
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.\"LINK2"
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Directory Panels\&,
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.\"Directory Panels"
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the
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.\"LINK2"
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Left and Right Menus
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.\"Left and Right Menus"
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and the
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.\"LINK2"
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File Menu\&.
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.\"File Menu"
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.PP
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You can execute system commands from the Midnight Commander by simply
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typing them. Everything you type will appear on the shell command line,
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and when you press Enter the Midnight Commander will execute the
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command line you typed; read the
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.\"LINK2"
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Shell Command Line
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.\"Shell Command Line"
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and
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.\"LINK2"
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Input Line Keys
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.\"Input Line Keys"
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sections to learn more about the command line.
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.\"NODE "Mouse Support"
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.SH "Mouse Support"
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The Midnight Commander comes with mouse support. It is activated
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whenever you are running on an
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.B xterm(1)
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terminal (it even works if you take a telnet, ssh or rlogin connection to
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another machine from the xterm) or if you are running on a Linux
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console and have the
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.B gpm
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mouse server running.
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.PP
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When you left click on a file in the directory panels, that file is
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selected; if you click with the right button, the file is marked (or
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unmarked, depending on the previous state).
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.PP
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Double\-clicking on a file will try to execute the command if it is
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an executable program; and if the
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.\"LINK2"
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extension file
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.\"Edit Extension File"
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has a program specified for the file's extension, the specified
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program is executed.
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.PP
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Also, it is possible to execute the commands assigned to the function
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key labels by clicking on them.
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.PP
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The default auto repeat rate for the mouse buttons is 400
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milliseconds. This may be changed to other values by editing the
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.\"LINK2"
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\&~/.config/mc/ini
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.\"Save Setup"
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file and changing the
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.I mouse_repeat_rate
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parameter.
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.PP
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If you are running the Midnight Commander with the mouse support, you
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can get the default mouse behavior (cutting and pasting text) by holding
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down the Shift key.
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.SH ""
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.\"NODE "Keys"
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.SH "Keys"
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Some commands in the Midnight Commander involve the use of the
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.I Control
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(sometimes labeled CTRL or CTL) and the
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.I Meta
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(sometimes labeled ALT or even Compose) keys. In this manual we will
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use the following abbreviations:
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.TP
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.B C\-<chr>
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means hold the Control key while typing the character <chr>.
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Thus C\-f would be: hold the Control key and type f.
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.TP
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.B Alt\-<chr>
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means hold the Meta or Alt key down while typing <chr>.
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If there is no Meta or Alt key, type
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.IR ESC ,
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release it, then type the character <chr>.
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.TP
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.B S\-<chr>
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means hold the Shift key down while typing <chr>.
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.PP
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All input lines in the Midnight Commander use an approximation to
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the GNU Emacs editor's key bindings (default).
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.PP
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You may redefine key bindings. See
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.\"LINK2"
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.I redefine hotkey bindings
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.\"Keys_redefine"
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.PP
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for more info. All other key bindings (described in this manual) relative
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to default behavior.
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.PP
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There are many sections which tell about the keys. The following are
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the most important.
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.PP
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The
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.\"LINK2"
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File Menu
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.\"File Menu"
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section documents the keyboard shortcuts for the commands appearing in
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the File menu. This section includes the function keys. Most of these
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commands perform some action, usually on the selected file or the
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tagged files.
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.PP
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The
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.\"LINK2"
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Directory Panels
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.\"Directory Panels"
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section documents the keys which select a file or tag files as a
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target for a later action (the action is usually one from the file
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menu).
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.PP
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The
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.\"LINK2"
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Shell Command Line
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.\"Shell Command Line"
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section list the keys which are used for entering and editing command
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lines. Most of these copy file names and such from the directory
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panels to the command line (to avoid excessive typing) or access the
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command line history.
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.PP
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.\"LINK2"
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Input Line Keys
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.\"Input Line Keys"
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are used for editing input lines. This means both the command line and
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the input lines in the query dialogs.
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.\"NODE " Keys_redefine"
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.SH " Redefine hotkey bindings"
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Hotkey bindings may be read from external file (keymap\-file).
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Initially, Mignight Commander creates key bindings using keymap defined
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in the source code. Then, two files
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.B %prefix%/share/mc/mc.keymap
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and
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.B %sysconfdir%/mc/mc.keymap
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are loaded always, sequentially reassigned key bindings defined earlier.
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User\-defined keymap\-file is searched on the following algorithm (to the first one found):
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.IP
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.br
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1) command line option
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.B \-K <keymap>
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or
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.B \-\-keymap=<keymap>
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.br
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2) Environment variable
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.B MC_KEYMAP
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.br
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3) Parameter
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.B keymap
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in section
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.B [Midnight\-Commander]
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of config file.
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.br
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4) File
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.B ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap
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.br
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.PP
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Command line option, environment variable and parameter in config file may
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contain the absolute path to the keymap\-file (with the extension \.keymap
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or without it). Search of keymap\-file will occur in (to the first one found):
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.IP
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.br
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1)
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.B ~/.config/mc
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.br
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2)
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.B %sysconfdir%/mc/
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.br
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3)
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.B %prefix%/share/mc/
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.\"NODE " Miscellaneous Keys"
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.SH " Miscellaneous Keys"
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Here are some keys which don't fall into any of the other categories:
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.TP
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.B Enter
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if there is some text in the command line (the one at the bottom of
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the panels), then that command is executed. If there is no text in the
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command line then if the selection bar is over a directory the
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Midnight Commander does a
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.B chdir(2)
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to the selected directory and reloads the information on the panel;
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if the selection is an executable file then it is executed. Finally,
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if the extension of the selected file name matches one of the
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extensions in the
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.\"LINK2"
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extensions file
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.\"Edit Extension File"
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then the corresponding command is executed.
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.TP
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.B C\-l
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repaint all the information in the Midnight Commander.
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.TP
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.B C\-x c
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run the
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.\"LINK2"
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Chmod
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.\"Chmod"
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command on a file or on the tagged files.
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.TP
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.B C\-x o
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run the
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.\"LINK2"
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Chown
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.\"Chown"
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command on the current file or on the tagged files.
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.TP
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.B C\-x l
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run the hard link command.
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.TP
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.B C\-x s
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run the absolute symbolic link command.
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.TP
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.B C\-x v
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run the relative symbolic link command. See the
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.\"LINK2"
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File Menu
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.\"File Menu"
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section for more information about symbolic links.
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.TP
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.B C\-x i
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set the other panel display mode to information.
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.TP
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.B C\-x q
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set the other panel display mode to quick view.
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.TP
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.B C\-x !
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execute the
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.\"LINK2"
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External panelize
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.\"External panelize"
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command.
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.TP
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.B C\-x h
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run the
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.\"LINK2"
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add directory to hotlist
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.\"Hotlist"
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command.
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.TP
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.B Alt\-!
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executes the Filtered view command, described in the
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.\"LINK2"
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view command\&.
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.\"Internal File Viewer"
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.TP
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.B Alt\-?
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executes the
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.\"LINK2"
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Find file
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.\"Find File"
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command.
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.TP
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.B Alt\-c
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pops up the
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.\"LINK2"
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quick cd
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.\"Quick cd"
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dialog.
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.TP
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.B C\-o
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when the program is being run in the Linux or FreeBSD console or under
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an xterm, it will show you the output of the previous command. When ran
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on the Linux console, the Midnight Commander uses an external program
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(cons.saver) to handle saving and restoring of information on the
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screen.
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.PP
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When the subshell support is compiled in, you can type C\-o at any time
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and you will be taken back to the Midnight Commander main screen, to
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return to your application just type C\-o. If you have an application
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suspended by using this trick, you won't be able to execute other
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programs from the Midnight Commander until you terminate the suspended
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application.
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.\"NODE " Directory Panels"
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.SH " Directory Panels"
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This section lists the keys which operate on the directory panels. If
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you want to know how to change the appearance of the panels take a
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look at the section on
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.\"LINK2"
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Left and Right Menus\&.
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.\"Left and Right Menus"
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.TP
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.B Tab, C\-i
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change the current panel. The old other panel becomes the new current
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panel and the old current panel becomes the new other panel. The
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selection bar moves from the old current panel to the new current
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panel.
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.TP
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.B Insert, C\-t
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to tag files you may use the Insert key (the kich1 terminfo sequence).
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To untag files, just retag a tagged file.
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.TP
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.B M\-e
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to change charset of panel you may use M\-e (Alt\-e).
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Recoding is made from selected codepage into system codepage. To
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cancel the recoding you may select "directory up" (..) in active panel.
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To cancel the charsets in all directories, select "No translation " in
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the dialog of encodings.
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.TP
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.B Alt\-g, Alt\-r, Alt\-j
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used to select the top file in a panel, the middle file and the bottom one,
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respectively.
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.TP
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.B Alt\-t
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toggle the current display listing to show the next display listing
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mode.
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With this it is possible to quickly switch to brief listing, long
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listing, user defined listing mode, and back to the default.
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.TP
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.B C\-\\\\ (control\-backslash)
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show the
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.\"LINK2"
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directory hotlist
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.\"Hotlist"
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and change to the selected directory.
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.TP
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.B + \ (plus)
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this is used to select (tag) a group of files. The Midnight Commander
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will prompt for a selection options. When
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.I Files only
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checkbox is on, only files will be selected. If
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.I Files only
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is off, as files as directories will be selected.
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When
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.I Shell Patterns
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checkbox is on, the regular expression is much like the filename globbing
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in the shell (* standing for zero or more characters and ? standing
|
|
for one character). If
|
|
.I Shell Patterns
|
|
is off, then the tagging of files is done with normal regular
|
|
expressions (see ed (1)). When
|
|
.I Case sensitive
|
|
checkbox is on, the selection will be case sensitive characters.
|
|
If
|
|
.I Case sensitive
|
|
is off, the case will be ignored.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \\\\ (backslash)
|
|
use the "\\" key to unselect a group of files. This is the opposite of
|
|
the Plus key.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B up\-key, C\-p
|
|
move the selection bar to the previous entry in the panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B down\-key, C\-n
|
|
move the selection bar to the next entry in the panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B home, a1, Alt\-<
|
|
move the selection bar to the first entry in the panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B end, c1, Alt\->
|
|
move the selection bar to the last entry in the panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B next\-page, C\-v
|
|
move the selection bar one page down.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B prev\-page, Alt\-v
|
|
move the selection bar one page up.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-o
|
|
If the currently selected file is a directory, load that directory on
|
|
the other panel and moves the selection to the next file. If the
|
|
currently selected file is not a directory, load the parent directory
|
|
on the other panel and moves the selection to the next file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-i
|
|
make the current directory of the current panel also the current
|
|
directory of the other panel. Put the other panel to the listing mode
|
|
if needed. If the current panel is panelized, the other panel doesn't
|
|
become panelized.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-PageUp, C\-PageDown
|
|
only when supported by the terminal: change to ".." and to the currently
|
|
selected directory respectively.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-y
|
|
moves to the previous directory in the history, equivalent to clicking
|
|
the
|
|
.I <
|
|
with the mouse.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-u
|
|
moves to the next directory in the history, equivalent to clicking the
|
|
.I >
|
|
with the mouse.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-Shift\-h, Alt\-H
|
|
displays the directory history, equivalent to depressing the 'v' with
|
|
the mouse.
|
|
.\"NODE " Quick search"
|
|
.SH " Quick search"
|
|
The Quick search mode allows you to perform fast file search in file panel.
|
|
Press
|
|
.I C\-s
|
|
or
|
|
.I Alt\-s
|
|
to start a filename search in the directory listing.
|
|
.P
|
|
When the search is active, the user input will be added to the search string
|
|
instead of the command line. If the
|
|
.I Show mini\-status
|
|
option is enabled the search string is shown on the mini\-status
|
|
line. When typing, the selection bar will move to the next file
|
|
starting with the typed letters. The
|
|
.I Backspace
|
|
or
|
|
.I DEL
|
|
keys can be used to correct typing mistakes. If C\-s is pressed
|
|
again, the next match is searched for.
|
|
.P
|
|
If quick search is started with double pressing of C\-s, the previous quick
|
|
search pattern will be used for current search.
|
|
.P
|
|
Besides the filename characters, you can also use wildcard
|
|
characters '*' and '?'.
|
|
.\"NODE " Shell Command Line"
|
|
.SH " Shell Command Line"
|
|
This section lists keys which are useful to avoid excessive typing when
|
|
entering shell commands.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-Enter
|
|
copy the currently selected file name to the command line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-Enter
|
|
same a Alt\-Enter. May not work on remote systems and some terminals.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-Shift\-Enter
|
|
copy the full path name of the currently selected file to the command
|
|
line. May not work on remote systems and some terminals.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-Tab
|
|
does the filename, command, variable, username and hostname
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
completion
|
|
.\"Completion"
|
|
for you.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-x t, C\-x C\-t
|
|
copy the tagged files (or if there are no tagged files, the selected
|
|
file) of the current panel (C\-x t) or of the other panel (C\-x C\-t) to
|
|
the command line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-x p, C\-x C\-p
|
|
the first key sequence copies the current path name to the command
|
|
line, and the second one copies the unselected panel's path name to
|
|
the command line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-q
|
|
the quote command can be used to insert characters that are otherwise
|
|
interpreted by the Midnight Commander (like the '+' symbol)
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-p, Alt\-n
|
|
use these keys to browse through the command history. Alt\-p takes you
|
|
to the last entry, Alt\-n takes you to the next one.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-h
|
|
displays the history for the current input line.
|
|
.\"NODE " General Movement Keys"
|
|
.SH " General Movement Keys"
|
|
The help viewer, the file viewer and the directory tree use common
|
|
code to handle moving. Therefore they accept exactly the same
|
|
keys. Each of them also accepts some keys of its own.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Other parts of the Midnight Commander use some of the same movement
|
|
keys, so this section may be of use for those parts too.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Up, C\-p
|
|
moves one line backward.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Down, C\-n
|
|
moves one line forward.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Prev Page, Page Up, Alt\-v
|
|
moves one page up.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Next Page, Page Down, C\-v
|
|
moves one page down.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Home, A1
|
|
moves to the beginning.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B End, C1
|
|
move to the end.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The help viewer and the file viewer accept the following keys in
|
|
addition the to ones mentioned above:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B b, C\-b, C\-h, Backspace, Delete
|
|
moves one page up.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Space bar
|
|
moves one page down.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B u, d
|
|
moves one half of a page up or down.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B g, G
|
|
moves to the beginning or to the end.
|
|
.\"NODE " Input Line Keys"
|
|
.SH " Input Line Keys"
|
|
The input lines (they are used for the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
command line
|
|
.\"Shell Command Line"
|
|
and for the query dialogs in the program) accept these keys:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-a
|
|
puts the cursor at the beginning of line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-e
|
|
puts the cursor at the end of the line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-b, move\-left
|
|
move the cursor one position left.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-f, move\-right
|
|
move the cursor one position right.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-f
|
|
moves one word forward.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-b
|
|
moves one word backward.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-h, Backspace
|
|
delete the previous character.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-d, Delete
|
|
delete the character in the point (over the cursor).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-@
|
|
sets the mark for cutting.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-w
|
|
copies the text between the cursor and the mark to a kill buffer and
|
|
removes the text from the input line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-w
|
|
copies the text between the cursor and the mark to a kill buffer.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-y
|
|
yanks back the contents of the kill buffer.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B C\-k
|
|
kills the text from the cursor to the end of the line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-p, Alt\-n
|
|
Use these keys to browse through the command history. Alt\-p takes you
|
|
to the last entry, Alt\-n takes you to the next one.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-C\-h, Alt\-Backspace
|
|
delete one word backward.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-Tab
|
|
does the filename, command, variable, username and hostname
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
completion
|
|
.\"Completion"
|
|
for you.
|
|
.SH ""
|
|
.\"NODE "Menu Bar"
|
|
.SH "Menu Bar"
|
|
The menu bar pops up when you press F9 or click the mouse on the top
|
|
row of the screen. The menu bar has five menus: "Left", "File",
|
|
"Command", "Options" and "Right".
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Left and Right Menus
|
|
.\"Left and Right Menus"
|
|
allow you to modify the appearance of the left and right directory
|
|
panels.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
File Menu
|
|
.\"File Menu"
|
|
lists the actions you can perform on the currently selected file or
|
|
the tagged files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Command Menu
|
|
.\"Command Menu"
|
|
lists the actions which are more general and bear no relation to the
|
|
currently selected file or the tagged files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Options Menu
|
|
.\"Options Menu"
|
|
lists the actions which allow you to customize the Midnight Commander.
|
|
.\"NODE " Left and Right Menus"
|
|
.SH " Left and Right (Above and Below) Menus"
|
|
The outlook of the directory panels can be changed from the
|
|
.B Left
|
|
and
|
|
.B Right
|
|
menus (they are named
|
|
.B Above
|
|
and
|
|
.B Below
|
|
when the horizontal panel split is chosen from the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Layout
|
|
.\"Layout"
|
|
options dialog).
|
|
.\"NODE " Listing Mode..."
|
|
.SH " Listing Mode..."
|
|
The listing mode view is used to display a listing of files, there are
|
|
four different listing modes available:
|
|
.BR Full ,
|
|
.BR Brief ,
|
|
.B Long
|
|
and
|
|
.BR User .
|
|
The full directory view shows the file name, the size of the file and
|
|
the modification time.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The brief view shows only the file name and it has two columns
|
|
(therefore showing twice as many files as other views). The long view
|
|
is similar to the output of
|
|
.B "ls \-l"
|
|
command. The long view takes the whole screen width.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you choose the "User" display format, then you have to specify
|
|
the display format.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The user display format must start with a panel size specifier. This
|
|
may be "half" or "full", and they specify a half screen panel and a
|
|
full screen panel respectively.
|
|
.PP
|
|
After the panel size, you may specify the two columns mode on the
|
|
panel, this is done by adding the number "2" to the user format
|
|
string.
|
|
.PP
|
|
After this you add the name of the fields with an optional size
|
|
specifier. This are the available fields you may display:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B name
|
|
displays the file name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B size
|
|
displays the file size.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B bsize
|
|
is an alternative form of the
|
|
.B size
|
|
format. It displays the size of the files and for directories it just
|
|
shows SUB\-DIR or UP\-\-DIR.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B type
|
|
displays a one character wide type field. This character is similar to
|
|
what is displayed by ls with the \-F flag \-
|
|
.B *
|
|
for executable files,
|
|
.B /
|
|
for directories,
|
|
.B @
|
|
for links,
|
|
.B =
|
|
for sockets,
|
|
.B \-
|
|
for character devices,
|
|
.B +
|
|
for block devices,
|
|
.B |
|
|
for pipes,
|
|
.B ~
|
|
for symbolic links to directories and
|
|
.B !
|
|
for stale symlinks (links that point nowhere).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B mark
|
|
an asterisk if the file is tagged, a space if it's not.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B mtime
|
|
file's last modification time.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B atime
|
|
file's last access time.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B ctime
|
|
file's status change time.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B perm
|
|
a string representing the current permission bits of the file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B mode
|
|
an octal value with the current permission bits of the file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B nlink
|
|
the number of links to the file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B ngid
|
|
the GID (numeric).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B nuid
|
|
the UID (numeric).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B owner
|
|
the owner of the file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B group
|
|
the group of the file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B inode
|
|
the inode of the file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Also you can use following keywords to define the panel layout:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B space
|
|
a space in the display format.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B |
|
|
add a vertical line to the display format.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To force one field to a fixed size (a size specifier), you just add
|
|
.B :
|
|
followed by the number of characters you want the field to have. If the
|
|
number is followed by the symbol
|
|
.BR + ,
|
|
then the size specifies the minimal field size \- if the program finds
|
|
out that there is more space on the screen, it will then expand that
|
|
field.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, the
|
|
.B Full
|
|
display corresponds to this format:
|
|
.PP
|
|
half type name | size | mtime
|
|
.PP
|
|
And the
|
|
.B Long
|
|
display corresponds to this format:
|
|
.PP
|
|
full perm space nlink space owner space group space size space mtime
|
|
space name
|
|
.PP
|
|
This is a nice user display format:
|
|
.PP
|
|
half name | size:7 | type mode:3
|
|
.PP
|
|
Panels may also be set to the following modes:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B "Info"
|
|
The info view display information related to the currently
|
|
selected file and if possible information about the current file
|
|
system.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B "Tree"
|
|
The tree view is quite similar to the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
directory tree
|
|
.\"Directory Tree"
|
|
feature. See the section about it for more information.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B "Quick View"
|
|
In this mode, the panel will switch to a reduced
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
viewer
|
|
.\"Internal File Viewer"
|
|
that displays the contents of the currently selected file, if you
|
|
select the panel (with the tab key or the mouse), you will have access
|
|
to the usual viewer commands.
|
|
.\"NODE " Sort Order..."
|
|
.SH " Sort Order..."
|
|
The eight sort orders are by name, by extension, by modification time,
|
|
by access time, and by inode information modification time, by size,
|
|
by inode and unsorted. In the Sort order dialog box you can choose
|
|
the sort order and you may also specify if you want to sort in reverse
|
|
order by checking the reverse box.
|
|
.PP
|
|
By default directories are sorted before files but this can be changed
|
|
from the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Panel options
|
|
.\"Panel options"
|
|
menu (option
|
|
.BR "Mix all files" ).
|
|
.\"NODE " Filter..."
|
|
.SH " Filter..."
|
|
The filter command allows you to specify a shell pattern (for example
|
|
.BR "*.tar.gz" )
|
|
which the files must match to be shown. Regardless
|
|
of the filter pattern, the directories and the links to directories
|
|
are always shown in the directory panel.
|
|
.\"NODE " Reread"
|
|
.SH " Reread"
|
|
The reread command reload the list of files in the directory. It is
|
|
useful if other processes have created or removed files.
|
|
.\"NODE " File Menu"
|
|
.SH " File Menu"
|
|
The Midnight Commander uses the F1 \- F10 keys as keyboard shortcuts
|
|
for commands appearing in the file menu. The escape sequences for the
|
|
function keys are terminfo capabilities kf1 trough kf10. On terminals
|
|
without function key support, you can achieve the same functionality by
|
|
pressing the ESC key and then a number in the range 1 through 9 and 0
|
|
(corresponding to F1 to F9 and F10 respectively).
|
|
.PP
|
|
The File menu has the following commands (keyboard shortcuts in parentheses):
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Help (F1)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Invokes the built\-in hypertext help viewer. Inside the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
help viewer\&,
|
|
.\"Contents"
|
|
you can use the Tab key to select the next link and the Enter key to
|
|
follow that link. The keys Space and Backspace are used to move
|
|
forward and backward in a help page. Press F1 again to get the full
|
|
list of accepted keys.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Menu (F2)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Invoke the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
user menu\&.
|
|
.\"Edit Menu File"
|
|
The user menu provides an easy way to provide users with a menu and
|
|
add extra features to the Midnight Commander.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B View (F3, F13)
|
|
.PP
|
|
View the currently selected file. By default this invokes the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Internal File Viewer
|
|
.\"Internal File Viewer"
|
|
but if the option "Use internal view" is off, it invokes an external
|
|
file viewer specified by the
|
|
.B VIEWER
|
|
environment variable. If
|
|
.B VIEWER
|
|
is undefined, the
|
|
.B PAGER
|
|
environment variable is tried. If
|
|
.B PAGER
|
|
is also undefined, the "view" command is invoked. If you use F13
|
|
instead, the viewer will be invoked without doing any formatting or
|
|
preprocessing to the file.
|
|
.P
|
|
See
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
parameters for external viewer
|
|
.\"Parameters for external editor or viewer"
|
|
for explain how you may specify an extended command line options
|
|
for external viewers.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Filtered View (Alt\-!)
|
|
.PP
|
|
This command prompts for a command
|
|
and its arguments (the argument defaults to the currently selected
|
|
file name), the output from such command is shown in the internal file
|
|
viewer.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Edit (F4, F14)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Press F4 to edit the highlighted file. Press F14 (usually F14)
|
|
to start the editor with a new, empty file.
|
|
Currently they invoke the
|
|
.B vi
|
|
editor, or the editor specified in the
|
|
.B EDITOR
|
|
environment variable, or the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Internal File Editor
|
|
.\"Internal File Editor"
|
|
if the use_internal_edit option is on.
|
|
.P
|
|
See
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
parameters for external editor
|
|
.\"Parameters for external editor or viewer"
|
|
for explain how you may specify an extended command line options
|
|
for external editors.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Copy (F5, F15)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Press F5 to pop up an input dialog to copy the currently selected file (or
|
|
the tagged files, if there is at least one file tagged) to the
|
|
directory/filename you specify in the input dialog. The destination
|
|
defaults to the directory in the non\-selected panel. Space for destination
|
|
file may be preallocated relative to preallocate_space configure option.
|
|
During this process, you can press C\-c or ESC to abort the operation.
|
|
For details about source mask (which will be usually either * or ^\\(.*\\)$
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|
depending on setting of Use shell patterns) and possible wildcards in the
|
|
destination see
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|
.\"LINK2"
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|
Mask copy/rename\&.
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.\"Mask Copy/Rename"
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|
.PP
|
|
F15 (usually F15) is similar, but defaults to the directory in the
|
|
selected panel. It always operates on the selected file, regardless of
|
|
any tagged files.
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|
.PP
|
|
On some systems, it is possible to do the copy in the background by
|
|
clicking on the background button (or pressing Alt\-b in the dialog
|
|
box). The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Background Jobs
|
|
.\"Background jobs"
|
|
is used to control the background process.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Link (C\-x l)
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|
.PP
|
|
Create a hard link to the current file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Absolute symlink (C\-x s)
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|
.PP
|
|
Create a absolute symbolic link to the current file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Relative symLink (C\-x v)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Create a relative symbolic link to the current file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To those of you who don't know what links are: creating a link to a file
|
|
is a bit like copying the file, but both the source filename and the destination
|
|
filename represent the same file image. For example, if you edit one of these
|
|
files, all changes you make will appear in both files. Some people call
|
|
links aliases or shortcuts.
|
|
.PP
|
|
A hard link appears as a real file. After making it, there is no way of
|
|
telling which one is the original and which is the link. If you delete
|
|
either one of them the other one is still intact. It is very difficult
|
|
to notice that the files represent the same image. Use hard links when
|
|
you don't even want to know.
|
|
.PP
|
|
A symbolic link is a reference to the name of the original file. If
|
|
the original file is deleted the symbolic link is useless. It is quite
|
|
easy to notice that the files represent the same image. The Midnight
|
|
Commander shows an "@"\-sign in front of the file name if it is a
|
|
symbolic link to somewhere (except to directory, where it shows a tilde (~)).
|
|
The original file which the link points to is shown on mini\-status line if the
|
|
.I "Show mini\-status"
|
|
option is enabled. Use symbolic links when you want to avoid the
|
|
confusion that can be caused by hard links.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When you press "C\-x s" Midnight Commander will automatically fill in the
|
|
complete path+filename of the original file and suggest a name for the link.
|
|
You can change either one.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Sometimes you may want to change the absolute path of the original into
|
|
a relative path. An absolute path starts from the root directory:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I /home/frodo/mc/mc \-> /home/frodo/new/mc
|
|
.PP
|
|
A relative link describes the original file's location starting from the
|
|
location of the link itself:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I /home/frodo/mc/mc \-> ../new/mc
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can force Midnight Commander to suggest a relative path by pressing
|
|
"C\-x v" instead of "C\-x s".
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Rename/Move (F6, F16)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Press F6 to pop up an input dialog to copy the currently selected file (or
|
|
the tagged files, if there is at least one file tagged) to the
|
|
directory/filename you specify in the input dialog. The destination
|
|
defaults to the directory in the non\-selected panel. For more details
|
|
look at Copy (F5) operation above, most of the things are quite similar.
|
|
.PP
|
|
F16 (usually F16) is similar, but defaults to the directory in the
|
|
selected panel. It always operates on the selected file, regardless of
|
|
any tagged files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
On some systems, it is possible to do the copy in the background by
|
|
clicking on the background button (or pressing Alt\-b in the dialog
|
|
box). The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Background Jobs
|
|
.\"Background jobs"
|
|
is used to control the background process.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Mkdir (F7)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Pop up an input dialog and creates the directory specified.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Delete (F8)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Delete the currently selected file or the tagged files in the
|
|
currently selected panel. During the process, you can press C\-c or
|
|
ESC to abort the operation.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Quick cd (Alt\-c)
|
|
Use the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
quick cd
|
|
.\"Quick cd"
|
|
command if you have full command line and want to cd somewhere.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Select group (+)
|
|
.PP
|
|
This is used to select (tag) a group of files. The Midnight Commander
|
|
will prompt for a selection options. When
|
|
.I Files only
|
|
checkbox is on, only files will be selected. If
|
|
.I Files only
|
|
is off, as files as directories will be selected.
|
|
When
|
|
.I Shell Patterns
|
|
checkbox is on, the regular expression is much like the filename globbing
|
|
in the shell (* standing for zero or more characters and ? standing
|
|
for one character). If
|
|
.I Shell Patterns
|
|
is off, then the tagging of files is done with normal regular
|
|
expressions (see ed (1)). When
|
|
.I Case sensitive
|
|
checkbox is on, the selection will be case sensitive characters.
|
|
If
|
|
.I Case sensitive
|
|
is off, the case will be ignored.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Unselect group (\\\\)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Used to unselect a group of files. This is the opposite of the
|
|
.I "Select group"
|
|
command.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Quit (F10, Shift\-F10)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Terminate the Midnight Commander. Shift\-F10 is used when you want to
|
|
quit and you are using the shell wrapper. Shift\-F10 will not take you
|
|
to the last directory you visited with the Midnight Commander, instead
|
|
it will stay at the directory where you started the Midnight Commander.
|
|
.\"NODE " Quick cd"
|
|
.SH " Quick cd"
|
|
This command is useful if you have a full command line and want to
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
cd
|
|
.\"The cd internal command"
|
|
somewhere without having to yank and paste the command line. This command
|
|
pops up a small dialog, where you enter everything you would enter after
|
|
.B cd
|
|
on the command line and then you press enter. This features all the things
|
|
that are already in the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
internal cd command\&.
|
|
.\"The cd internal command"
|
|
.\"NODE " Command Menu"
|
|
.SH " Command Menu"
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Directory tree
|
|
.\"Directory Tree"
|
|
command shows a tree figure of the directories.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
"Find file"
|
|
.\"Find File"
|
|
command allows you to search for a specific file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The "Swap panels" command swaps the contents of the two directory panels.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The "Switch panels on/off" command shows the output of the last shell command.
|
|
This works only on xterm and on Linux and FreeBSD console.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The "Compare directories" command compares the directory
|
|
panels with each other. You can then use the Copy (F5) command to make
|
|
the panels identical. There are three compare methods. The quick method
|
|
compares only file size and file date. The thorough method makes a
|
|
full byte\-by\-byte compare. The thorough method is not available if the
|
|
machine does not support the mmap(2) system call. The size\-only
|
|
compare method just compares the file sizes and does not check the
|
|
contents or the date times, it just checks the file size.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
"External panelize"
|
|
.\"External panelize"
|
|
allows you to execute an external program, and make the output of that
|
|
program the contents of the current panel.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The "Command history" command shows a list of typed commands. The
|
|
selected command is copied to the command line. The command history
|
|
can also be accessed by typing Alt\-p or Alt\-n.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
"Directory hotlist"
|
|
.\"Hotlist"
|
|
command makes changing of the current directory to often used directories
|
|
faster.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
"Screen list"
|
|
.\"Screen selector"
|
|
command shows a dialog window with the list of currently running
|
|
internal editors, viewers and other MC modules that support this mode.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
"Edit extension file"
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
command allows you to specify programs to executed when you try to
|
|
execute, view, edit and do a bunch of other thing on files
|
|
with certain extensions (filename endings).
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
"Edit Menu File"
|
|
.\"Edit Menu File"
|
|
command may be used for editing the user menu (which appears by
|
|
pressing F2).
|
|
.\"NODE " Directory Tree"
|
|
.SH " Directory Tree"
|
|
The Directory Tree command shows a tree figure of the directories. You
|
|
can select a directory from the figure and the Midnight Commander will
|
|
change to that directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are two ways to invoke the tree. The real directory tree command
|
|
is available from Commands menu. The other way is to select tree view
|
|
from the Left or Right menu.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To get rid of long delays the Midnight Commander creates the tree
|
|
figure by scanning only a small subset of all the directories. If the
|
|
directory which you want to see is missing, move to its parent
|
|
directory and press C\-r (or F2).
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can use the following keys:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
General movement keys
|
|
.\"General Movement Keys"
|
|
are accepted.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Enter.
|
|
In the directory tree, exits the directory tree and changes to this
|
|
directory in the current panel. In the tree view, changes to this
|
|
directory in the other panel and stays in tree view mode in the
|
|
current panel.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-r, F2 (Rescan).
|
|
Rescan this directory. Use this when the tree figure is out of date:
|
|
it is missing subdirectories or shows some subdirectories which don't
|
|
exist any more.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F3 (Forget).
|
|
Delete this directory from the tree figure. Use this to remove clutter
|
|
from the figure. If you want the directory back to the tree figure
|
|
press F2 in its parent directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F4 (Static/Dynamic).
|
|
Toggle between the dynamic navigation mode (default) and the static
|
|
navigation mode.
|
|
.PP
|
|
In the static navigation mode you can use the Up and Down keys to
|
|
select a directory. All known directories are shown.
|
|
.PP
|
|
In the dynamic navigation mode you can use the Up and Down keys to
|
|
select a sibling directory, the Left key to move to the parent
|
|
directory, and the Right key to move to a child directory. Only the
|
|
parent, sibling and children directories are shown, others are left
|
|
out. The tree figure changes dynamically as you traverse.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F5 (Copy).
|
|
Copy the directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F6 (RenMov).
|
|
Move the directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F7 (Mkdir).
|
|
Make a new directory below this directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F8 (Delete).
|
|
Delete this directory from the file system.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-s, Alt\-s.
|
|
Search the next directory matching the search string. If there is
|
|
no such directory these keys will move one line down.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-h, Backspace.
|
|
Delete the last character of the search string.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Any other character.
|
|
Add the character to the search string and move to the next directory
|
|
which starts with these characters. In the tree view you must first
|
|
activate the search mode by pressing C\-s. The search string is shown
|
|
in the mini status line.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The following actions are available only in the directory tree. They
|
|
aren't supported in the tree view.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F1 (Help).
|
|
Invoke the help viewer and show this section.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Esc, F10.
|
|
Exit the directory tree. Do not change the directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The mouse is supported. A double\-click behaves like Enter. See
|
|
also the section on
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
mouse support\&.
|
|
.\"Mouse Support"
|
|
.\"NODE " Find File"
|
|
.SH " Find File"
|
|
The Find File feature first asks for the start directory for the
|
|
search and the filename to be searched for. By pressing the Tree
|
|
button you can select the start directory from the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
directory tree
|
|
.\"Directory Tree"
|
|
figure.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Option \"Whole words\" allows select only those files containing matches that
|
|
form whole words. Like grep \-w.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can start the search by pressing the OK button.
|
|
During the search you can stop from the Stop button and continue from
|
|
the Start button.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can browse the filelist with the up and down arrow keys. The Chdir
|
|
button will change to the directory of the currently selected
|
|
file. The Again button will ask for the parameters for a new
|
|
search. The Quit button quits the search operation. The Panelize
|
|
button will place the found files to the current directory panel so
|
|
that you can do additional operations on them (view, copy, move,
|
|
delete and so on). After panelizing you can press C\-r to return to the
|
|
normal file listing.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The 'Enable ignore directories' checkbox and input field below it
|
|
allow to set up the list of directories that should be skip during the search
|
|
files (for example, you may want to avoid searches on a CD\-ROM or on a NFS
|
|
directory that is mounted across a slow link). List components must be separated
|
|
with a colon, here is an example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
/cdrom:/nfs/wuarchive:/afs
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Relative paths are supported also. The following example shows how to skip special
|
|
directories of version control systems:
|
|
.nf
|
|
/cdrom:/nfs/wuarchive:/afs:.svn:.git:CVS
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Attention: input field can contain a dot (.), this means the current absolute path.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You may consider using the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
External panelize
|
|
.\"External panelize"
|
|
command for some operations. Find file command is for simple queries
|
|
only, while using External panelize you can do as mysterious searches
|
|
as you would like.
|
|
.\"NODE " External panelize"
|
|
.SH " External panelize"
|
|
The External panelize allows you to execute an external program, and
|
|
make the output of that program the contents of the current panel.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, if you want to manipulate in one of the panels all the
|
|
symbolic links in the current directory, you can use external
|
|
panelization to run the following command:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
find . \-type l \-print
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Upon command completion, the directory contents of the panel will no
|
|
longer be the directory listing of the current directory, but all the
|
|
files that are symbolic links.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you want to panelize all of the files that have been downloaded
|
|
from your FTP server, you can use this awk command to extract the file
|
|
name from the transfer log files:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
awk '$9 ~! /incoming/ { print $9 }' < /var/log/xferlog
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
You may want to save often used panelize commands under a descriptive name,
|
|
so that you can recall them quickly. You do this by typing the command on
|
|
the input line and pressing Add new button. Then you enter a name under
|
|
which you want the command to be saved. Next time, you just choose that
|
|
command from the list and do not have to type it again.
|
|
.\"NODE " Hotlist"
|
|
.SH " Hotlist"
|
|
The Directory hotlist command shows the labels of the directories
|
|
in the directory hotlist. The Midnight Commander will change to the
|
|
directory corresponding to the selected label. From the hotlist dialog,
|
|
you can remove already created label/directory pairs and add new ones.
|
|
To add new directories quickly, you can use the Add to hotlist command
|
|
(C\-x h), which adds the current directory into the directory hotlist,
|
|
asking just for the label for the directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
This makes cd to often used directories faster. You may consider using the
|
|
CDPATH variable as described in
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
internal cd command
|
|
.\"The cd internal command"
|
|
description.
|
|
.\"NODE " Edit Extension File"
|
|
.SH " Edit Extension File"
|
|
This will invoke your editor on the file
|
|
.IR ~/.config/mc/mc.ext .
|
|
The format of this file following:
|
|
.PP
|
|
All lines starting with # or empty lines are thrown away.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Lines starting in the first column should have following format:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.IR keyword/expr ,
|
|
i.e. everything after the slash until new line is
|
|
.IR expr .
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I keyword
|
|
can be:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I shell
|
|
\-
|
|
.I expr
|
|
is an extension (no wildcards). File matches it its name ends
|
|
with
|
|
.IR expr .
|
|
Example:
|
|
.I shell/.tar
|
|
matches
|
|
.IR *.tar .
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I regex
|
|
\-
|
|
.I expr
|
|
is a regular expression. File matches if its name matches the regular
|
|
expression.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I directory
|
|
\-
|
|
.I expr
|
|
is a regular expression. File matches if it is a directory and its name
|
|
matches the regular expression.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I type
|
|
\-
|
|
.I expr
|
|
is a regular expression. File matches if the output of
|
|
.I file %f
|
|
without the initial "filename:" part matches regular expression
|
|
.IR expr .
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I default
|
|
\- matches any file.
|
|
.I expr
|
|
is ignored.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I include
|
|
\- denotes a common section.
|
|
.I expr
|
|
is the name of the section.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Other lines should start with a space or tab and should be of the format:
|
|
.I keyword=command
|
|
(with no spaces around =), where
|
|
.I keyword
|
|
should be:
|
|
.I Open
|
|
(invoked on Enter or double click),
|
|
.I View
|
|
(F3),
|
|
.I Edit
|
|
(F4) or
|
|
.I Include
|
|
(to add rules from the common section).
|
|
.I command
|
|
is any one\-line shell command, with the simple
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
macro substitution\&.
|
|
.\"Macro Substitution"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Rules are matched from top to bottom, thus the order is important. If
|
|
the appropriate action is missing, search continues as if this rule
|
|
didn't match (i.e. if a file matches the first and second entry and View
|
|
action is missing in the first one, then on pressing F3 the View action
|
|
from the second entry will be used).
|
|
.I default
|
|
should match all the actions.
|
|
.\"NODE " Background jobs"
|
|
.SH " Background Jobs"
|
|
This lets you control the state of any background Midnight Commander
|
|
process (only copy and move files operations can be done in the
|
|
background). You can stop, restart and kill a background job from
|
|
here.
|
|
.\"NODE " Edit Menu File"
|
|
.SH " Edit Menu File"
|
|
The user menu is a menu of useful actions that can be customized by
|
|
the user. When you access the user menu, the
|
|
file .mc.menu from the current directory is used if it exists,
|
|
but only if it is owned by user or root and is not world\-writable.
|
|
If no such file found, ~/.config/mc/menu is tried in the same way,
|
|
and otherwise mc uses the default system\-wide menu
|
|
%prefix%/share/mc/mc.menu.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The format of the menu file is very simple. Lines that start with
|
|
anything but space or tab are considered entries for the menu (in
|
|
order to be able to use it like a hot key, the first character should
|
|
be a letter). All the lines that start with a space or a tab are the
|
|
commands that will be executed when the entry is selected.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When an option is selected all the command lines of the option are
|
|
copied to a temporary file in the temporary directory (usually
|
|
/usr/tmp) and then that file is executed. This allows the user to put
|
|
normal shell constructs in the menus. Also simple macro substitution
|
|
takes place before executing the menu code. For more information, see
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
macro substitution\&.
|
|
.\"Macro Substitution"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Here is a sample mc.menu file:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
A Dump the currently selected file
|
|
od \-c %f
|
|
|
|
B Edit a bug report and send it to root
|
|
I=`mktemp ${MC_TMPDIR:\-/tmp}/mail.XXXXXX` || exit 1
|
|
vi $I
|
|
mail \-s "Midnight Commander bug" root < $I
|
|
rm \-f $I
|
|
|
|
M Read mail
|
|
emacs \-f rmail
|
|
|
|
N Read Usenet news
|
|
emacs \-f gnus
|
|
|
|
H Call the info hypertext browser
|
|
info
|
|
|
|
J Copy current directory to other panel recursively
|
|
tar cf \- . | (cd %D && tar xvpf \-)
|
|
|
|
K Make a release of the current subdirectory
|
|
echo \-n "Name of distribution file: "
|
|
read tar
|
|
ln \-s %d `dirname %d`/$tar
|
|
cd ..
|
|
tar cvhf ${tar}.tar $tar
|
|
|
|
= f *.tar.gz | f *.tgz & t n
|
|
X Extract the contents of a compressed tar file
|
|
tar xzvf %f
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Default Conditions
|
|
.PP
|
|
Each menu entry may be preceded by a condition. The condition must
|
|
start from the first column with a '=' character. If the condition is
|
|
true, the menu entry will be the default entry.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
Condition syntax: = <sub\-cond>
|
|
or: = <sub\-cond> | <sub\-cond> ...
|
|
or: = <sub\-cond> & <sub\-cond> ...
|
|
|
|
Sub\-condition is one of following:
|
|
|
|
y <pattern> syntax of current file matching pattern?
|
|
(for edit menu only)
|
|
f <pattern> current file matching pattern?
|
|
F <pattern> other file matching pattern?
|
|
d <pattern> current directory matching pattern?
|
|
D <pattern> other directory matching pattern?
|
|
t <type> current file of type?
|
|
T <type> other file of type?
|
|
x <filename> is it executable filename?
|
|
! <sub\-cond> negate the result of sub\-condition
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Pattern is a normal shell pattern or a regular expression, according
|
|
to the shell patterns option. You can override the global value of
|
|
the shell patterns option by writing "shell_patterns=x" on the first
|
|
line of the menu file (where "x" is either 0 or 1).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Type is one or more of the following characters:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
n not a directory
|
|
r regular file
|
|
d directory
|
|
l link
|
|
c character device
|
|
b block device
|
|
f FIFO (pipe)
|
|
s socket
|
|
x executable file
|
|
t tagged
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example 'rlf' means either regular file, link or fifo. The 't'
|
|
type is a little special because it acts on the panel instead of the
|
|
file. The condition '=t t' is true if there are tagged files in the
|
|
current panel and false if not.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If the condition starts with '=?' instead of '=' a debug trace will be
|
|
shown whenever the value of the condition is calculated.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The conditions are calculated from left to right. This means
|
|
.nf
|
|
= f *.tar.gz | f *.tgz & t n
|
|
.fi
|
|
is calculated as
|
|
.nf
|
|
( (f *.tar.gz) | (f *.tgz) ) & (t n)
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Here is a sample of the use of conditions:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
= f *.tar.gz | f *.tgz & t n
|
|
L List the contents of a compressed tar\-archive
|
|
gzip \-cd %f | tar xvf \-
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Addition Conditions
|
|
.PP
|
|
If the condition begins with '+' (or '+?') instead of '=' (or '=?') it
|
|
is an addition condition. If the condition is true the menu entry will
|
|
be included in the menu. If the condition is false the menu entry will
|
|
not be included in the menu.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can combine default and addition conditions by starting condition
|
|
with '+=' or '=+' (or '+=?' or '=+?' if you want debug trace). If you
|
|
want to use two different conditions, one for adding and another for
|
|
defaulting, you can precede a menu entry with two condition lines, one
|
|
starting with '+' and another starting with '='.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Comments are started with '#'. The additional comment lines must start
|
|
with '#', space or tab.
|
|
.\"NODE " Options Menu"
|
|
.SH " Options Menu"
|
|
The Midnight Commander has some options that may be toggled on and
|
|
off in several dialogs which are accessible from this menu. Options
|
|
are enabled if they have an asterisk or "x" in front of them.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Configuration
|
|
.\"Configuration"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you can change most of settings of
|
|
the Midnight Commander.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Layout
|
|
.\"Layout"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you specify a bunch of options how mc
|
|
looks like on the screen.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Panel options
|
|
.\"Panel options"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you specify options of file manager panels.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Confirmation
|
|
.\"Confirmation"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you specify which actions you want to
|
|
confirm.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Display bits
|
|
.\"Display bits"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you may select which characters is your
|
|
terminal able to display.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Learn keys
|
|
.\"Learn keys"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you test some keys which are not working
|
|
on some terminals and you may fix them.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Virtual FS
|
|
.\"Virtual FS"
|
|
command pops up a dialog from which you specify some VFS related options.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Save setup
|
|
.\"Save Setup"
|
|
command saves the current settings of the Left, Right and Options
|
|
menus. A small number of other settings is saved, too.
|
|
.\"NODE " Configuration"
|
|
.SH " Configuration"
|
|
The options in this dialog are divided into several groups: "File
|
|
operation options", "Esc key mode", "Pause after run" and "Other options".
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B File operation options
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Verbose operation.
|
|
This toggles whether the file Copy, Rename and Delete operations are
|
|
verbose (i.e., display a dialog box for each operation). If you have a
|
|
slow terminal, you may wish to disable the verbose operation. It is
|
|
automatically turned off if the speed of your terminal is less than
|
|
9600 bps.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Compute totals.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the Midnight Commander computes total byte
|
|
sizes and total number of files prior to any Copy, Rename and Delete
|
|
operations. This will provide you with a more accurate progress bar
|
|
at the expense of some speed. This option has no effect, if
|
|
.I Verbose operation
|
|
is disabled.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Classic progressbar.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the progressbar of Copy/Move/Delete operations
|
|
is always grown form left to right. If disabled, the growing direction
|
|
of progressbar follows to direction of Copy/Move/Delete operation:
|
|
from left panel to right one and vice versa. Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Mkdir autoname.
|
|
When you press F7 to create a new directory, the input line in popup dialog
|
|
will be filled by name of current file or directory in active panel.
|
|
Disabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Preallocate space.
|
|
Preallocate space for whole target file, if possible, before copy operation.
|
|
Disabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Esc key mode.
|
|
.PP
|
|
By default the Midnight Commander treats the ESC key as a key prefix.
|
|
Therefore, you should press Esc code twice to exit a dialog. But there is
|
|
a possibility to use a single press of ESC key for that action.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Single press.
|
|
By default this option is disabled. If you'll enable it, the ESC key
|
|
will act as a prefix key for set up time interval (see
|
|
.I Timeout
|
|
option below), and if no extra keys have arrived, then the ESC key
|
|
is interpreted as a cancel key (ESC ESC).
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Timeout.
|
|
This options is used to setup the time interval (in microseconds)
|
|
for single press of ESC key. By default, this inrerval is one second
|
|
(1000000 microseconds). Also the timeout can be set via KEYBOARD_KEY_TIMEOUT_US
|
|
environment variable (also in microseconds), which has higher priority
|
|
than Timeout option value.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Pause after run
|
|
.PP
|
|
After executing your commands, the Midnight Commander can pause, so
|
|
that you can examine the output of the command. There are three
|
|
possible settings for this variable:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Never.
|
|
Means that you do not want to see the output of your command. If you
|
|
are using the Linux or FreeBSD console or an xterm, you will be able to
|
|
see the output of the command by typing C\-o.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I On dumb terminals.
|
|
You will get the pause message on terminals that are not capable of
|
|
showing the output of the last command executed (any terminal that is
|
|
not an xterm or the Linux console).
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Always.
|
|
The program will pause after executing all of your commands.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Other options
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Use internal editor.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the built\-in file editor is used to edit
|
|
files. If the option is disabled, the editor specified in the
|
|
.B EDITOR
|
|
environment variable is used.
|
|
If no editor is specified,
|
|
.B vi
|
|
is used. See the section on the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
internal file editor\&.
|
|
.\"Internal File Editor"
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Use internal viewer.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the built\-in file viewer is used to view
|
|
files. If the option is disabled, the pager specified in the
|
|
.B PAGER
|
|
environment variable is used.
|
|
If no pager is specified, the
|
|
.B view
|
|
command is used. See the section on the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
internal file viewer\&.
|
|
.\"Internal File Viewer"
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Ask new file name.
|
|
If this option is enabled, file name is asked before open new file in editor.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Auto menus.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the user menu will be invoked at startup.
|
|
Useful for building menus for non\-unixers.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Drop down menus.
|
|
When this option is enabled, the pull down menus will be activated as
|
|
soon as you press the F9 key. Otherwise, you will only get the menu title,
|
|
and you will have to activate the menu either with the arrow keys or with
|
|
the hotkeys. It is recommended if you are using hotkeys.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Shell Patterns.
|
|
By default the Select, Unselect and Filter commands will use shell\-like
|
|
regular expressions. The following conversions are performed to achieve
|
|
this: the '*' is replaced by '.*' (zero or more characters); the '?'
|
|
is replaced by '.' (exactly one character) and '.' by the literal
|
|
dot. If the option is disabled, then the regular expressions are the
|
|
ones described in ed(1).
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Complete: show all.
|
|
By default the Midnight Commander pops up all possible
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
completions
|
|
.\"Completion"
|
|
if the completion is ambiguous only when you press
|
|
.B Alt\-Tab
|
|
for the second time. For the first time, it just completes as much as
|
|
possible and beeps in the case of ambiguity. Enable this option if you
|
|
want to see all possible completions even after pressing
|
|
.B Alt\-Tab
|
|
the first time.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Rotating dash.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the
|
|
Midnight Commander shows a rotating dash in the upper right corner
|
|
as a work in progress indicator.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Cd follows links.
|
|
This option, if set, causes the Midnight Commander to follow the
|
|
logical chain of directories when changing current directory
|
|
either in the panels, or using the cd command. This is the default
|
|
behavior of bash. When unset, the Midnight Commander follows the
|
|
real directory structure, so cd .. if you've entered that directory
|
|
through a link will move you to the current directory's real parent
|
|
and not to the directory where the link was present.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Safe delete.
|
|
If this option is enabled, deleting files and directory hotlist entries
|
|
unintentionally becomes more difficult. The default selection in the
|
|
confirmation dialogs for deletion changes from "Yes" to "No".
|
|
This option is disabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Auto save setup.
|
|
If this option is enabled, when you exit the Midnight Commander the
|
|
configurable options of the Midnight Commander are saved in the
|
|
~/.config/mc/ini file.
|
|
.\"NODE " Layout"
|
|
.SH " Layout"
|
|
The layout dialog gives you a possibility to change the general layout
|
|
of screen. The options in this dialog are divided into several groups:
|
|
"Panel split", "Console output" and "Other options".
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Panel split
|
|
.PP
|
|
The rest of the screen area is used for the two directory panels. You
|
|
can specify whether the area is split to the panels in
|
|
.I Vertical
|
|
or
|
|
.I Horizontal
|
|
direction. Panel layout can be changed using Alt\-, (Alt\-comma) shortcut.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Equal split.
|
|
By default, panels have equal sizes. Using this option you can specify
|
|
an unequal split.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Console output
|
|
.PP
|
|
On the Linux or FreeBSD console you can specify how many lines are shown
|
|
in the output window. This option is available if Midnight Commander runs
|
|
on native console only.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Other options
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Menu bar visible.
|
|
If enabled, main menu of Midnight Commander is always visible on the top row
|
|
of screen above panels. Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Command prompt.
|
|
If enabled, command line is avalable. Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Keybar visible.
|
|
If enabled, 10 lables associated with F1\-F10 keys are located at the bottom
|
|
row of screen. Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Hintbar visible.
|
|
If enabled, the one\-line hints are visible below panels. Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I XTerm window title.
|
|
When run in a terminal emulator for X11, Midnight Commander sets the
|
|
terminal window title to the current working directory and updates it
|
|
when necessary. If your terminal emulator is broken and you see some
|
|
incorrect output on startup and directory change, turn off this option.
|
|
Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Show free space.
|
|
If enabled, free space and total space of current file system is shown
|
|
at the bottom frame of panel. Enabled by default.
|
|
.\"NODE " Panel options"
|
|
.SH " Panel options"
|
|
.B Main panel options
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Show mini\-status.
|
|
If enabled, one line of status information about the currently selected item
|
|
is shown at the bottom of the panels. Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Use SI size units.
|
|
If this option is enabled, Midnight Commander will use SI units (powers of 1000)
|
|
when displaying any byte sizes. The suffixes (k, m ...) are shown in lowercase.
|
|
If disabled (default), Midnight Commander will use binary units (powers of 1024)
|
|
and the suffixes are shown in upper case (K, M ...)
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Mix all files.
|
|
If this option is enabled, all files and directories are shown mixed
|
|
together. If the option is disabled (default), directories (and links to
|
|
directories) are shown at the beginning of the listing, and other files below.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Show backup files.
|
|
If enabled, the Midnight Commander will show files ending with a tilde.
|
|
Otherwise, they won't be shown (like GNU's ls option \-B). Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Show hidden files.
|
|
If enabled, the Midnight Commander will show all files that start with
|
|
a dot (like ls \-a). Disabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Fast directory reload.
|
|
If this option is enabled, the Midnight Commander will use a trick to
|
|
determine if the directory contents have changed. The trick is to reload
|
|
the directory only if the i\-node of the directory has changed; this means
|
|
that reloads only happen when files are created or deleted. If what
|
|
changes is the i\-node for a file in the directory (file size changes,
|
|
mode or owner changes, etc) the display is not updated. In these cases,
|
|
if you have the option on, you have to rescan the directory manually
|
|
(with C\-r). Disabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Mark moves down.
|
|
If enabled, the selection bar will move down when you mark a file (with
|
|
Insert key). Enabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Reverse files only.
|
|
Allow revert selection of files only. Enabled by default.
|
|
If enabled, the reverse selection is applied to files only, not to directories.
|
|
The selection of directories is untouched. If off, the reverse selection
|
|
is applied to files as well to directories: all unselected items become
|
|
selected, and vice versa.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Simple swap.
|
|
If both panels contain file listing, simple swap means that panels exchange
|
|
its screen positions: left panel become right one, and vice versa. If this
|
|
option is unchecked, file listing panels exchange its content keeping listing
|
|
format and sort options. Unchecked by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Auto save panels setup.
|
|
If this option is enabled, when you exit the Midnight Commander the
|
|
current settings of panels are saved in the ~/.config/mc/panels.ini file.
|
|
Disabled by default.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Navigation
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Lynx\-like motion.
|
|
If this option is enabled, you may use the arrows keys to automatically
|
|
chdir if the current selection is a subdirectory and the shell command
|
|
line is empty. By default, this setting is off.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Page scrolling.
|
|
If set (the default), panel will scroll by half the display when the
|
|
cursor reaches the end or the beginning of the panel, otherwise it
|
|
will just scroll a file at a time.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Mouse page scrolling.
|
|
Controls whenever scrolling with the mouse wheel is done by pages or
|
|
line by line on the panels.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B File highlight
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can specify whether
|
|
.I permissions
|
|
and
|
|
.I file types
|
|
should be highlighted with distinctive
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Colors\&.
|
|
.\"Colors"
|
|
If the permission highlighting is enabled, the parts of the
|
|
.I perm
|
|
and
|
|
.I mode
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
display fields
|
|
.\"Listing Mode..."
|
|
which apply to the user running Midnight Commander are highlighted with
|
|
the color defined by the
|
|
.I selected
|
|
keyword. If the file type highlighting is enabled, file names are colored
|
|
according to rules described in
|
|
%sysconfdir%/mc/filehighlight.ini
|
|
file. See
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Filenames Highlight
|
|
.\"Filenames Highlight"
|
|
for more info.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Quick search
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can specify how the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Quick search
|
|
.\"Quick search"
|
|
mode should works: case insensitively, case sensitively or be matched
|
|
to the the panel sort order: case sensitive or not.
|
|
.\"NODE " Confirmation"
|
|
.SH " Confirmation"
|
|
In this dialog you configure the confirmation options for file deletion,
|
|
overwriting files, execution by pressing enter, quitting the program,
|
|
directory hotlist entries deletion and history cleanup.
|
|
and.
|
|
.\"NODE " Display bits"
|
|
.SH " Display bits"
|
|
This is used to configure the range of visible characters on the
|
|
screen. This setting may be 7\-bits if your terminal/curses supports
|
|
only seven output bits, ISO\-8859\-1 displays all the characters in the
|
|
ISO\-8859\-1 map and full 8 bits is for those terminals that can display
|
|
full 8 bit characters.
|
|
.\"NODE " Learn keys"
|
|
.SH " Learn keys"
|
|
This dialog allows you to test and redefine functional keys, cursor
|
|
arrows and some other keys to make them work properly on your terminal.
|
|
They often don't, since many terminal databases are incomplete or broken.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can move around with the Tab key and with the vi moving keys ('h'
|
|
left, 'j' down, 'k' up and 'l' right). Once you press any cursor movement
|
|
key and it is recognized, you can use that key as well.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can test keys just by pressing each of them. When you press a
|
|
key and it is recognized properly, OK should appear next to the name
|
|
of that key. Once a key is marked OK it starts working as usually,
|
|
e.g. F1 pressed the first time will just check that the F1 key works,
|
|
but after that it will show help. The same applies to the arrow keys.
|
|
The Tab key should be working always.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If some keys do not work properly then you won't see OK appear after
|
|
pressing one of these. Then you may want to redefine it. Do it by pressing
|
|
the button with the name of that key (either by the mouse or by Enter
|
|
or Space after selecting the button with Tab or arrows). Then a message
|
|
box will appear asking you to press that key. Do it and wait until the
|
|
message box disappears. If you want to abort, just press Escape once
|
|
and wait.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When you finish with all the keys, you can Save them. The definitions
|
|
for the keys you have redefined will be written into the [terminal:TERM]
|
|
section of your ~/.config/mc/ini file (where TERM is the name of your current
|
|
terminal). The definitions of the keys that were already working properly
|
|
are not saved.
|
|
.\"NODE " Virtual FS"
|
|
.SH " Virtual FS"
|
|
This option gives you control over the settings of the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Virtual File System\&.
|
|
.\"Virtual File System"
|
|
.PP
|
|
The Midnight Commander keeps in memory the information related to some
|
|
of the virtual file systems to speed up the access to the files in the
|
|
file system (for example, directory listings fetched from FTP servers).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Also, in order to access the contents of compressed files (for example,
|
|
compressed tar files) the Midnight Commander needs to create temporary
|
|
uncompressed files on your disk.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Since both the information in memory and the temporary files on disk
|
|
take up resources, you may want to tune the parameters of the cached
|
|
information to decrease your resource usage or to maximize the speed of
|
|
access to frequently used file systems.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Because of the format of the tar archives, the
|
|
.I Tar filesystem
|
|
needs to read the whole file just to load the file entries. Since most
|
|
tar files are usually kept compressed (plain tar files are species in
|
|
extinction), the tar file system has to uncompress the file on the disk
|
|
in a temporary location and then access the uncompressed file as a
|
|
regular tar file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Now, since we all love to browse files and tar files all over the disk,
|
|
it's common that you will leave a tar file and then re\-enter it later.
|
|
Since decompression is slow, the Midnight Commander will cache the
|
|
information in memory for a limited time. When the timeout expires, all
|
|
the resources associated with the file system are released. The default
|
|
timeout is set to one minute.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
FTP File System
|
|
.\"FTP File System"
|
|
(ftpfs) allows you to browse directories on remote FTP servers. It has
|
|
several options.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ftp anonymous password
|
|
is the password used when you login as "anonymous". Some sites require
|
|
a valid e\-mail address. On the other hand, you probably don't want to
|
|
give your real e\-mail address to untrusted sites, especially if you are
|
|
not using spam filtering.
|
|
.PP
|
|
ftpfs keeps the directory listing it fetches from a FTP server in a cache.
|
|
The cache expire time is configurable with the
|
|
.I ftpfs directory cache timeout
|
|
option. A low value for this option may slow down every operation on
|
|
the ftpfs because every operation would require sending a request to the
|
|
FTP server.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can define an FTP proxy host for doing FTP. Note that most modern
|
|
firewalls are fully transparent at least for passive FTP (see below), so
|
|
FTP proxies are considered obsolete.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If
|
|
.I Always use ftp proxy
|
|
is not set, you can use the exclamation sign to enable proxy for certain
|
|
hosts. See
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
FTP File System
|
|
.\"FTP File System"
|
|
for examples.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If this option is set, the program will do two things: consult the
|
|
%prefix%/lib/mc/mc.no_proxy file for lines containing host names that
|
|
are local (if the host name starts with a dot, it is assumed to be a
|
|
domain) and to assume that any hostnames without dots in their names are
|
|
directly accessible. All other hosts will be accessed through the
|
|
specified FTP proxy.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can enable using
|
|
.I ~/.netrc
|
|
file, which keeps login names and passwords for ftp servers. See netrc
|
|
(5) for the description of the .netrc format.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Use passive mode
|
|
enables using FTP passive mode, when the connection for data transfer is
|
|
initiated by the client, not by the server. This option is recommended
|
|
and enabled by default. If this option is turned off, the data
|
|
connection is initiated by the server. This may not work with some
|
|
firewalls.
|
|
.\"NODE " Save Setup"
|
|
.SH " Save Setup"
|
|
At startup the Midnight Commander will try to load initialization
|
|
information from the ~/.config/mc/ini file. If this file
|
|
doesn't exist, it will load the information from the system\-wide
|
|
configuration file, located in %prefix%/share/mc/mc.ini. If the
|
|
system\-wide configuration file doesn't exist, MC uses the default settings.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.I Save Setup
|
|
command creates the ~/.config/mc/ini file by saving the
|
|
current settings of the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Left, Right
|
|
.\"Left and Right Menus"
|
|
and
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Options
|
|
.\"Options Menu"
|
|
menus.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you activate the
|
|
.I auto save setup
|
|
option, MC will always save the current settings when exiting.
|
|
.PP
|
|
There also exist settings which can't be changed from the menus. To
|
|
change these settings you have to edit the setup file with your
|
|
favorite editor. See the section on
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Special Settings
|
|
.\"Special Settings"
|
|
for more information.
|
|
.SH ""
|
|
.\"NODE "Executing operating system commands"
|
|
.SH "Executing operating system commands"
|
|
You may execute commands by typing them directly in the Midnight
|
|
Commander's input line, or by selecting the program you want to
|
|
execute with the selection bar in one of the panels and hitting Enter.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you press Enter over a file that is not executable, the Midnight
|
|
Commander checks the extension of the selected file against the
|
|
extensions in the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Extensions File\&.
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
If a match is found then the code associated with that extension is
|
|
executed. A very simple
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
macro expansion
|
|
.\"Macro Substitution"
|
|
takes place before executing the command.
|
|
.\"NODE " The cd internal command"
|
|
.SH " The cd internal command"
|
|
The
|
|
.I cd
|
|
command is interpreted by the Midnight Commander, it is not passed to
|
|
the command shell for execution. Thus it may not handle all of the
|
|
nice macro expansion and substitution that your shell does, although it
|
|
does some of them:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Tilde substitution.
|
|
The (~) will be substituted with your home directory, if you append a
|
|
username after the tilde, then it will be substituted with the login
|
|
directory of the specified user.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, ~guest is the home directory for the user guest, while
|
|
~/guest is the directory guest in your home directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I Previous directory.
|
|
You can jump to the directory you were previously by using the special
|
|
directory name '\-' like this:
|
|
.B cd \-
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I CDPATH directories.
|
|
If the directory specified to the
|
|
.B cd
|
|
command is not in the current directory, then The Midnight Commander
|
|
uses the value in the environment variable
|
|
.B CDPATH
|
|
to search for the directory in any of the named directories.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example you could set your
|
|
.B CDPATH
|
|
variable to ~/src:/usr/src, allowing you to change your directory to
|
|
any of the directories inside the ~/src and /usr/src directories, from
|
|
any place in the file system by using its relative name (for example
|
|
cd linux could take you to /usr/src/linux).
|
|
.\"NODE " Macro Substitution"
|
|
.SH " Macro Substitution"
|
|
When accessing a
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
user menu\&,
|
|
.\"Edit Menu File"
|
|
or executing an
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
extension dependent command\&,
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
or running a command from the command line input, a simple macro
|
|
substitution takes place.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The macros are:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %i
|
|
The indent of blank space, equal the cursor column position. For edit
|
|
menu only.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %y
|
|
The syntax type of current file. For edit menu only.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %k
|
|
The block file name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %e
|
|
The error file name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %m
|
|
The current menu name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.IR %f " and " %p
|
|
The current file name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %x
|
|
The extension of current file name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %b
|
|
The current file name without extension.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %d
|
|
The current directory name.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %F
|
|
The current file in the unselected panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %D
|
|
The directory name of the unselected panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %t
|
|
The currently tagged files.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %T
|
|
The tagged files in the unselected panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.IR %u " and " %U
|
|
Similar to the %t and %T macros, but in addition the files are untagged.
|
|
You can use this macro only once per menu file entry or extension file
|
|
entry, because next time there will be no tagged files.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.IR %s " and " %S
|
|
The selected files: The tagged files if there are any. Otherwise the
|
|
current file.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %cd
|
|
This is a special macro that is used to change the current directory
|
|
to the directory specified in front of it. This is used primarily as
|
|
an interface to the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Virtual File System\&.
|
|
.\"Virtual File System"
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %view
|
|
This macro is used to invoke the internal viewer. This macro can be
|
|
used alone, or with arguments. If you pass any arguments to this
|
|
macro, they should be enclosed in brackets.
|
|
.IP
|
|
The arguments are:
|
|
.I ascii
|
|
to force the viewer into ascii mode;
|
|
.I hex
|
|
to force the viewer into hex mode;
|
|
.I nroff
|
|
to tell the viewer that it should interpret the bold and underline
|
|
sequences of nroff;
|
|
.I unformatted
|
|
to tell the viewer to not interpret nroff commands for making the text
|
|
bold or underlined.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %%
|
|
The % character
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %{some text}
|
|
Prompt for the substitution. An input box is shown and the text inside
|
|
the braces is used as a prompt. The macro is substituted by the text
|
|
typed by the user. The user can press ESC or F10 to cancel. This macro
|
|
doesn't work on the command line yet.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I %var{ENV:default}
|
|
If environment variable
|
|
.I ENV
|
|
is unset, the
|
|
.I default
|
|
is substituted. Otherwise, the value of
|
|
.I ENV
|
|
is substituted.
|
|
.\"NODE " The subshell support"
|
|
.SH " The subshell support"
|
|
The subshell support is a compile time option, that works with the
|
|
shells: bash, tcsh and zsh.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When the subshell code is activated the Midnight Commander will
|
|
spawn a concurrent copy of your shell (the one defined in the
|
|
.B SHELL
|
|
variable and if it is not defined, then the one in the /etc/passwd
|
|
file) and run it in a pseudo terminal, instead of invoking a new shell
|
|
each time you execute a command, the command will be passed to the
|
|
subshell as if you had typed it. This also allows you to change the
|
|
environment variables, use shell functions and define aliases that are
|
|
valid until you quit the Midnight Commander.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you are using
|
|
.B bash
|
|
you can specify startup
|
|
commands for the subshell in your ~/.local/share/mc/bashrc file and
|
|
special keyboard maps in the ~/.local/share/mc/inputrc file.
|
|
.B tcsh
|
|
users may specify startup commands in the ~/.local/share/mc/tcshrc file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When the subshell code is used, you can suspend applications at any
|
|
time with the sequence C\-o and jump back to the Midnight Commander, if
|
|
you interrupt an application, you will not be able to run other
|
|
external commands until you quit the application you interrupted.
|
|
.PP
|
|
An extra added feature of using the subshell is that the prompt
|
|
displayed by the Midnight Commander is the same prompt that you are
|
|
currently using in your shell.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
OPTIONS
|
|
.\"OPTIONS"
|
|
section has more information on how you can control the subshell code.
|
|
.\"NODE "Chmod"
|
|
.SH "Chmod"
|
|
The Chmod window is used to change the attribute bits in a group of
|
|
files and directories. It can be invoked with the C\-x c key combination.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The Chmod window has two parts \-
|
|
.I Permissions
|
|
and
|
|
.IR File .
|
|
.PP
|
|
In the File section are displayed the name of the file or directory
|
|
and its permissions in octal form, as well as its owner and group.
|
|
.PP
|
|
In the Permissions section there is a set of check buttons which
|
|
correspond to the file attribute bits. As you change the attribute
|
|
bits, you can see the octal value change in the File section.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To move between the widgets (buttons and check buttons) use the
|
|
.I arrow keys
|
|
or the
|
|
.I Tab
|
|
key. To change the state of the check buttons or to select a button
|
|
use
|
|
.I Space.
|
|
You can also use the hotkeys on the buttons to quickly activate them.
|
|
Hotkeys are shown as highlighted letters on the buttons.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To set the attribute bits, use the Enter key.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When working with a group of files or directories, you just click on
|
|
the bits you want to set or clear. Once you have selected the bits
|
|
you want to change, you select one of the action buttons (Set marked
|
|
or Clear marked).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Finally, to set the attributes exactly to those specified, you can use
|
|
the
|
|
.B [Set all]
|
|
button, which will act on all the tagged files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B [Marked all]
|
|
set only marked attributes to all selected files
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B [Set marked]
|
|
set marked bits in attributes of all selected files
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B [Clean marked]
|
|
clear marked bits in attributes of all selected files
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B [Set]
|
|
set the attributes of one file
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B [Cancel]
|
|
cancel the Chmod command
|
|
.\"NODE "Chown"
|
|
.SH "Chown"
|
|
The Chown command is used to change the owner/group of a file. The hot
|
|
key for this command is C\-x o.
|
|
.\"NODE "Advanced Chown"
|
|
.SH "Advanced Chown"
|
|
The Advanced Chown command is the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Chmod
|
|
.\"Chmod"
|
|
and
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Chown
|
|
.\"Chown"
|
|
command combined into one window. You can change the permissions and
|
|
owner/group of files at once.
|
|
.\"NODE "File Operations"
|
|
.SH "File Operations"
|
|
When you copy, move or delete files the Midnight Commander shows the
|
|
file operations dialog. It shows the files currently being processed
|
|
and uses up to three progress bars. The file bar indicates the
|
|
percentage of the current file that has been processed so far. The
|
|
count bar shows how many of the tagged files have been handled. The
|
|
bytes bar indicates the percentage of the total size of the tagged files
|
|
that has been handled. If the verbose option is off, the file and bytes
|
|
bars are not shown.
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are two buttons at the bottom of the dialog. Pressing the Skip
|
|
button will skip the rest of the current file. Pressing the Abort
|
|
button will abort the whole operation, the rest of the files are
|
|
skipped.
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are three other dialogs which you can run into during the file
|
|
operations.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The error dialog informs about error conditions and has three choices.
|
|
Normally you select either the Skip button to skip the file or the Abort
|
|
button to abort the operation altogether. You can also select the Retry
|
|
button if you fixed the problem from another terminal.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The replace dialog is shown when you attempt to copy or move a file on
|
|
the top of an existing file. The dialog shows the dates and sizes of
|
|
the both files. Press the Yes button to overwrite the file, the No
|
|
button to skip the file, the All button to overwrite all the files, the
|
|
None button to never overwrite and the Update button to overwrite if the
|
|
source file is newer than the target file. You can abort the whole
|
|
operation by pressing the Abort button.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The recursive delete dialog is shown when you try to delete a directory
|
|
which is not empty. Press the Yes button to delete the directory
|
|
recursively, the No button to skip the directory, the All button to
|
|
delete all the directories and the None button to skip all the non\-empty
|
|
directories. You can abort the whole operation by pressing the Abort
|
|
button. If you selected the Yes or All button you will be asked for a
|
|
confirmation. Type "yes" only if you are really sure you want to do the
|
|
recursive delete.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you have tagged files and perform an operation on them only the files
|
|
on which the operation succeeded are untagged. Failed and skipped files
|
|
are left tagged.
|
|
.\"NODE "Mask Copy/Rename"
|
|
.SH "Mask Copy/Rename"
|
|
The copy/move operations let you translate the names of files in an
|
|
easy way. To do it, you have to specify the correct source mask and
|
|
usually in the trailing part of the destination specify some wildcards.
|
|
All the files matching the source mask are copied/renamed according to
|
|
the target mask. If there are tagged files, only the tagged files
|
|
matching the source mask are renamed.
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are other options which you can set:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Follow links
|
|
.PP
|
|
determines whether make the symlinks and hardlinks in the source
|
|
directory (recursively in subdirectories) new links in the target
|
|
directory or whether would you like to copy their content.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Dive into subdirs
|
|
.PP
|
|
determines the behavior when the source directory is about to be copied,
|
|
but the target directory already exists. The default action is to copy
|
|
the contents of the source directory into the target directory.
|
|
Enabling this option causes copying the source directory itself into the
|
|
target directory.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, you want to copy directory
|
|
.I /foo
|
|
containing file
|
|
.I bar
|
|
to
|
|
.IR /bla/foo ,
|
|
which is an already existing directory. Normally (when
|
|
.B Dive into subdirs
|
|
is not set), mc would copy file
|
|
.I /foo/bar
|
|
into the file
|
|
.IR /bla/foo/bar .
|
|
By enabling this option the
|
|
.I /bla/foo/foo
|
|
directory will be created, and
|
|
.I /foo/bar
|
|
will be copied into
|
|
.IR /bla/foo/foo/bar .
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Preserve attributes
|
|
.PP
|
|
determines whether to preserve the permissions, timestamps and (if you
|
|
are root) the ownership of the original files. If this option is not
|
|
set, the current value of the umask will be respected.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Use shell patterns
|
|
.PP
|
|
When this option is on you can use the '*' and '?' wildcards in the source
|
|
mask. They work like they do in the shell. In the target mask only the '*'
|
|
and '\\<digit>' wildcards are allowed. The first '*' wildcard in the target
|
|
mask corresponds to the first wildcard group in the source mask,
|
|
the second '*' corresponds to the second group and so on. The '\\1' wildcard
|
|
corresponds to the first wildcard group in the source mask, the '\\2' wildcard
|
|
corresponds to the second group and so on all the way up to '\\9'.
|
|
The '\\0' wildcard is the whole filename of the source file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Two examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
If the source mask is "*.tar.gz", the destination is "/bla/*.tgz" and the
|
|
file to be copied is "foo.tar.gz", the copy will be "foo.tgz" in "/bla".
|
|
.PP
|
|
Suppose you want to swap basename and extension so that "file.c" would
|
|
become "c.file" and so on. The source mask for this is "*.*" and the
|
|
destination is "\\2.\\1".
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Use shell patterns off
|
|
.PP
|
|
When the shell patterns option is off the MC doesn't do automatic
|
|
grouping anymore. You must use '\\(...\\)' expressions in the source
|
|
mask to specify meaning for the wildcards in the target mask. This is
|
|
more flexible but also requires more typing. Otherwise target masks
|
|
are similar to the situation when the shell patterns option is on.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Two examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
If the source mask is "^\\(.*\\)\\.tar\\.gz$", the destination is
|
|
"/bla/*.tgz" and the file to be copied is "foo.tar.gz", the copy
|
|
will be "/bla/foo.tgz".
|
|
.PP
|
|
Let's suppose you want to swap basename and extension so that "file.c"
|
|
will become "c.file" and so on. The source mask for this is
|
|
"^\\(.*\\)\\.\\(.*\\)$" and the destination is "\\2.\\1".
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Case Conversions
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can also change the case of the filenames. If you use '\\u'
|
|
or '\\l' in the target mask, the next character will be converted to
|
|
uppercase or lowercase correspondingly.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If you use '\\U' or '\\L' in the target mask, the next characters will
|
|
be converted to uppercase or lowercase correspondingly up to the
|
|
next '\\E' or next '\\U', '\\L' or the end of the file name.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The '\\u' and '\\l' are stronger than '\\U' and '\\L'.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, if the source mask is '*' (
|
|
.I Use shell patterns
|
|
on) or '^\\(.*\\)$' (
|
|
.I Use shell patterns
|
|
off) and the target mask is '\\L\\u*' the file names will be converted
|
|
to have initial upper case and otherwise lower case.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You can also use '\\' as a quote character. For example, '\\\\' is
|
|
a backslash and '\\*' is an asterisk.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Stable symlinks
|
|
.PP
|
|
commands Midnight Commander, that it should change symlinks in the target,
|
|
so that they'll point to the same location as it did before. With absolute
|
|
symbolic links this does nothing, but if you have a relative one, it will
|
|
recompute its value, adding necessary ../ and other directory parts and making
|
|
the value as short as possible (most modern filesystems keep short symlinks
|
|
inside inodes and thus don't waste much disk space).
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Select/Unselect Files"
|
|
.SH "Select/Unselect Files"
|
|
The dialog of group of files and directories selection or uselection.
|
|
The
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
input line
|
|
.\"Input Line Keys"
|
|
allow enter the regular expression of filenames that will be
|
|
selected/unselected.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When
|
|
.I Files only
|
|
checkbox is on, only files will be selected. If
|
|
.I Files only
|
|
is off, as files as directories will be selected.
|
|
When
|
|
.I Shell Patterns
|
|
checkbox is on, the regular expression is much like the filename globbing
|
|
in the shell (* standing for zero or more characters and ? standing
|
|
for one character). If
|
|
.I Shell Patterns
|
|
is off, then the tagging of files is done with normal regular
|
|
expressions (see ed (1)). When
|
|
.I Case sensitive
|
|
checkbox is on, the selection will be case sensitive characters.
|
|
If
|
|
.I Case sensitive
|
|
is off, the case will be ignored.
|
|
.\"NODE "Diff Viewer"
|
|
.SH "Internal Diff Viewer"
|
|
The mcdiff is a visual diff tool. You can compare two files and edit them
|
|
in\-place (diffs are updated dynamically). You can browse and view a working
|
|
copy from popular version control systems (GIT, Subversion, etc).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Following shortcuts are available in internal diff viewer of Midnight
|
|
Commander.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F1
|
|
Invoke the built\-in hypertext help viewer.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F2
|
|
Save modified files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F4
|
|
Edit file of the left panel in the internal editor.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F14
|
|
Edit file of the right panel in the internal editor.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F5
|
|
Merge the current hunk. Only the current hunk will be merged.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F7
|
|
Start search.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F17
|
|
Continue search.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F10, Esc, q
|
|
Exit from diff viewer.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Alt\-s, s
|
|
Toggle show of hunk status.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Alt\-n, l
|
|
Toggle show of line numbers.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B f
|
|
Maximize left panel.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B =
|
|
Make panels equal in width.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B >
|
|
Reduce the size of the right panel.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B <
|
|
Reduce the size of the left panel.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B c
|
|
Toggle show of trailing carriage return (CR) symbol as ^M.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B 2, 3, 4, 8
|
|
Set tabulation size
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-u
|
|
Swap contents of diff panels.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-r
|
|
Refresh the screen.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-o
|
|
Switch to the subshell and show the command screen.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Enter, Space, n
|
|
Find next diff hunk.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Backspace, p
|
|
Find previous diff hunk.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B g
|
|
Go to line.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Down
|
|
Scroll one line forward.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Up
|
|
Scroll one line backward.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B PageUp
|
|
Move one page up.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B PageDown
|
|
Mves one page down.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Home, A1
|
|
Moves to the line beginning.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B End
|
|
Moves to the line end.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-Home
|
|
Move to the file beginning.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-End, C1
|
|
Move to the file end.
|
|
.\"NODE "Internal File Viewer"
|
|
.SH "Internal File Viewer"
|
|
The internal file viewer provides two display modes: ASCII and hex.
|
|
To toggle between modes, use the F4 key.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The viewer will try to use the best method provided by your system or
|
|
the file type to display the information.
|
|
Some character sequences, which appear most often in preformatted manual
|
|
pages, are displayed bold and underlined, thus making a pretty display
|
|
of your files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When in hex mode, the search function accepts text in quotes and
|
|
constant numbers. Text in quotes is matched exactly after removing
|
|
the quotes. Each number matches one byte. You can mix quoted text
|
|
with constants like this:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
"String" \-1 0xBB 012 "more text"
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Note that 012 is an octal number. \-1 is converted to 0xFF.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Here is a listing of the actions associated with each key that the
|
|
Midnight Commander handles in the internal file viewer.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F1
|
|
Invoke the built\-in hypertext help viewer.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F2
|
|
Toggle the wrap mode.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F4
|
|
Toggle the hex mode.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F5
|
|
Goto line. This will prompt you for a line number and will display
|
|
that line.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F6, /.
|
|
Regular expression search.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B ?,
|
|
Reverse regular expression search.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F7
|
|
Normal search / hex mode search.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-s, F17, n.
|
|
Start normal search if there was no previous search expression else
|
|
find next match.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-r.
|
|
Start reverse search if there was no previous search expression else
|
|
find next match.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F8
|
|
Toggle Raw/Parsed mode: This will show the file as found on disk or if
|
|
a processing filter has been specified in the mc.ext file, then the
|
|
output from the filter. Current mode is always the other than written
|
|
on the button label, since on the button is the mode which you enter
|
|
by that key.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F9
|
|
Toggle the format/unformat mode: when format mode is on the viewer
|
|
will interpret some string sequences to show bold and underline with
|
|
different colors. Also, on button label is the other mode than current.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F10, Esc.
|
|
Exit the internal file viewer.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B next\-page, space, C\-v.
|
|
Scroll one page forward.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B prev\-page, Alt\-v, C\-b, Backspace.
|
|
Scroll one page backward.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B down\-key
|
|
Scroll one line forward.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B up\-key
|
|
Scroll one line backward.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-l
|
|
Refresh the screen.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-o
|
|
Switch to the subshell and show the command screen.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B "[n] m"
|
|
Set the mark n.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B "[n] r"
|
|
Jump to the mark n.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-f
|
|
Jump to the next file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B C\-b
|
|
Jump to the previous file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Alt\-r
|
|
Toggle the ruler.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B Alt\-e
|
|
to change charset of displayed text may use M\-e (Alt\-e).
|
|
Recoding is made from selected codepage into system codepage. To
|
|
cancel the recoding you may select "<No translation>" in charset
|
|
selection dialog.
|
|
.PP
|
|
It's possible to instruct the file viewer how to display a file, look
|
|
at the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Edit Extension File section
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Internal File Editor"
|
|
.SH "Internal File Editor"
|
|
The internal file editor is a full\-featured full screen editor. It can
|
|
edit files up to 64 megabytes. It is possible to edit binary files.
|
|
The internal file editor is invoked using
|
|
.B F4
|
|
if the
|
|
.I use_internal_edit
|
|
option is set in the initialization file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The features it presently supports are: block copy, move, delete, cut,
|
|
paste; key for key undo; pull\-down menus; file insertion; macro
|
|
commands; regular expression search and replace; shift\-arrow text highlighting
|
|
(if supported by the terminal); insert\-overwrite toggle; word wrap;
|
|
autoindent; tunable tab size; syntax highlighting for various file
|
|
types; and an option to pipe text blocks through shell commands like
|
|
indent and ispell.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Sections:
|
|
.IP
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Options of editor in ini\-file
|
|
.\"Internal File Editor / options"
|
|
.PP
|
|
The editor is very easy to use and requires no tutoring. To see what
|
|
keys do what, just consult the appropriate pull\-down menu. Other keys
|
|
are: Shift movement keys do text highlighting.
|
|
.B Ctrl\-Ins
|
|
copies to the file
|
|
.B mcedit.clip
|
|
and
|
|
.B Shift\-Ins
|
|
pastes from mcedit.clip.
|
|
.B Shift\-Del
|
|
cuts to
|
|
.BR mcedit.clip ,
|
|
and
|
|
.B Ctrl\-Del
|
|
deletes highlighted text. Mouse highlighting also works, and you
|
|
can override the mouse as usual by holding down the shift key
|
|
while dragging the mouse to let normal terminal mouse highlighting
|
|
work.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To define a macro, press
|
|
.B Ctrl\-R
|
|
and then type out the key
|
|
strokes you want to be executed. Press
|
|
.B Ctrl\-R
|
|
again when finished. You can then assign the macro to any key you
|
|
like by pressing that key. The macro is executed when you press
|
|
.B Ctrl\-A
|
|
and then the assigned key. The macro is also executed if
|
|
you press Meta, Ctrl, or Esc and the assigned key, provided that the
|
|
key is not used for any other function. Once defined, the macro
|
|
commands go into the file
|
|
.B ~/.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.macros
|
|
You can delete a macro by deleting the
|
|
appropriate line in this file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To change charset of displayed text may use M\-e (Alt\-e).
|
|
Recoding is made from selected codepage into system codepage. To
|
|
cancel the recoding you may select "<No translation>" in charset
|
|
selection dialog.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.B F19
|
|
will format the currently highlighted block (plain text or
|
|
.B C
|
|
or
|
|
.B C++
|
|
code or another). This is controlled by the
|
|
file
|
|
.B %prefix%/share/mc/edit.indent.rc
|
|
which is copied to
|
|
.B ~/.local/share/mc/mcedit/edit.indent.rc
|
|
in your home directory the first time you use it.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The editor also displays non\-us characters (160+). When editing
|
|
binary files, you should set
|
|
.B display bits
|
|
to 7 bits in the options menu to keep the spacing clean.
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Internal File Editor / options"
|
|
.SH "Options of editor in ini\-file"
|
|
|
|
Some editor options of ini\-file are described in this section.
|
|
Options are placed in [Midnight\-Commander] section
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I editor_wordcompletion_collect_entire_file
|
|
Search autocomplete candidates in entire of file or just from
|
|
begin of file to cursor position (0)
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Screen selector"
|
|
.SH "Screen selector"
|
|
Midnight Commander supports running many internal modules (such as
|
|
editor, viewer and diff viewer) simultaneously and switching between
|
|
them without closing open files. Using several file managers at a time,
|
|
however, is not currently supported.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Let's call each of these modules a screen. There are three ways to
|
|
switch between screens, using one of these global shortcuts:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-}
|
|
switch to the next screen;
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-{
|
|
switch to the previous screen;
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Alt\-`
|
|
open a dialog window with the list of currently open screens (or use the
|
|
"Screen list" menu item).
|
|
.\"NODE "Completion"
|
|
.SH "Completion"
|
|
Let the Midnight Commander type for you.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Attempt to perform completion on the text before current position. MC
|
|
attempts completion treating the text as variable (if the text begins
|
|
with
|
|
.BR $ ),
|
|
username (if the text begins with
|
|
.BR ~ ),
|
|
hostname (if the text begins with
|
|
.BR @ )
|
|
or command (if you are on the command line in the position where you
|
|
might type a command, possible completions then include shell reserved
|
|
words and shell built\-in commands as well) in turn. If none of these
|
|
matches, filename completion is attempted.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Filename, username, variable and hostname completion works on all input
|
|
lines, command completion is command line specific. If the completion
|
|
is ambiguous (there are more different possibilities), MC beeps and the
|
|
following action depends on the setting of the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Complete: show all
|
|
.\"Configuration"
|
|
option in the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Configuration
|
|
.\"Configuration"
|
|
dialog. If it is enabled, a list of all possibilities pops up next to
|
|
the current position and you can select with the arrow keys and
|
|
.B Enter
|
|
the correct entry. You can also type the first letters in which the
|
|
possibilities differ to move to a subset of all possibilities and
|
|
complete as much as possible. If you press
|
|
.B Alt\-Tab
|
|
again, only the subset will be shown in the listbox, otherwise the first
|
|
item which matches all the previous characters will be highlighted. As
|
|
soon as there is no ambiguity, dialog disappears, but you can hide it by
|
|
canceling keys
|
|
.BR Esc ,
|
|
.B F10
|
|
and left and right arrow keys. If
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Complete: show all
|
|
.\"Configuration"
|
|
is disabled, the dialog pops up only if you press
|
|
.B Alt\-Tab
|
|
for the second time, for the first time MC just beeps.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Apply escaping of
|
|
.BR ? ", " * " and " &
|
|
symbols (as \fB\\?\fR, \fB\\*\fR, \fB\\&\fR )
|
|
in filenames to disallow use them as metasymbols in regular expressions
|
|
when substitution is performed in the input line.
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Virtual File System"
|
|
.SH "Virtual File System"
|
|
The Midnight Commander is provided with a code layer to access the file
|
|
system; this code layer is known as the virtual file system switch. The
|
|
virtual file system switch allows the Midnight Commander to manipulate
|
|
files not located on the Unix file system.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Currently the Midnight Commander is packaged with some Virtual File
|
|
Systems (VFS): the
|
|
.I local
|
|
file system, used for accessing the regular Unix file system; the
|
|
.IR ftpfs ,
|
|
used to manipulate files on remote systems with the FTP protocol; the
|
|
.IR tarfs ,
|
|
used to manipulate tar and compressed tar files; the
|
|
.IR undelfs ,
|
|
used to recover deleted files on ext2 file systems (the default file
|
|
system for Linux systems),
|
|
.I fish
|
|
(for manipulating files over shell connections such as rsh and ssh).
|
|
If the code was compiled with
|
|
.I sftpfs
|
|
(for manipulating files over SFTP connections).
|
|
If the code was compiled with
|
|
.I smbfs
|
|
support, you can manipulate files on remote systems with the SMB (CIFS)
|
|
protocol.
|
|
.PP
|
|
A generic
|
|
.I extfs
|
|
(EXTernal virtual File System) is provided in order to easily expand
|
|
VFS capabilities using scripts and external software.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The VFS switch code will interpret all of the path names used and will
|
|
forward them to the correct file system, the formats used for each one
|
|
of the file systems is described later in their own section.
|
|
.\"NODE " FTP File System"
|
|
.SH " FTP File System"
|
|
The FTP File System (ftpfs) allows you to manipulate files on remote
|
|
machines. To actually use it, you can use the
|
|
.I FTP link
|
|
item in the menu or directly change your current directory using the
|
|
.I cd
|
|
command to a path name that looks like this:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ftp://[!][user[:pass]@]machine[:port][remote\-dir]
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.IR user ,
|
|
.I port
|
|
and
|
|
.I remote\-dir
|
|
elements are optional. If you specify the
|
|
.I user
|
|
element, the Midnight Commander will login to the remote machine as that
|
|
user, otherwise it will use anonymous login or the login name from the
|
|
.I ~/.netrc
|
|
file. The optional
|
|
.I pass
|
|
element is the password used for the connection. Using the password in
|
|
the VFS directory name is not recommended, because it can appear on the
|
|
screen in clear text and can be saved to the directory history.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To enable using FTP proxy, prepend
|
|
.B !
|
|
(an exclamation sign) to the hostname.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx/linux/local
|
|
ftp://tsx\-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages
|
|
ftp://!behind.firewall.edu/pub
|
|
ftp://guest@remote\-host.com:40/pub
|
|
ftp://miguel:xxx@server/pub
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Please check the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Virtual File System
|
|
.\"Virtual FS"
|
|
dialog box for ftpfs options.
|
|
.\"NODE " Tar File System"
|
|
.SH " Tar File System"
|
|
The tar file system provides you with read\-only access to your tar
|
|
files and compressed tar files by using the chdir command. To change
|
|
your directory to a tar file, you change your current directory to the
|
|
tar file by using the following syntax:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I /filename.tar/utar://[dir\-inside\-tar]
|
|
.PP
|
|
The mc.ext file already provides a shortcut for tar files, this means
|
|
that usually you just point to a tar file and press return to enter
|
|
into the tar file, see the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Edit Extension File
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
section for details on how this is done.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
mc\-3.0.tar.gz/utar://mc\-3.0/vfs
|
|
/ftp/GCC/gcc\-2.7.0.tar/utar://
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
The latter specifies the full path of the tar archive.
|
|
.\"NODE " FIle transfer over SHell filesystem"
|
|
.SH " FIle transfer over SHell filesystem"
|
|
The fish file system is a network based file system that allows you to
|
|
manipulate the files in a remote machine as if they were local. To use
|
|
this, the other side has to either run fish server, or has to have
|
|
bash\-compatible shell.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To connect to a remote machine, you just need to chdir
|
|
into a special directory which name is in the following
|
|
format:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I sh://[user@]machine[:options]/[remote\-dir]
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.I user,
|
|
.I options
|
|
and
|
|
.I remote\-dir
|
|
elements are optional. If you specify the
|
|
.I user
|
|
element, the Midnight Commander will try to login on the remote
|
|
machine as that user, otherwise it will use your login name.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The available
|
|
.I options
|
|
are:
|
|
.nf
|
|
'C' \- use compression;
|
|
'r' \- use rsh instead of ssh;
|
|
port \- specify the port used by remote server.
|
|
.fi
|
|
If the
|
|
.I remote\-dir
|
|
element is present, your current directory on the remote machine will be
|
|
set to this one.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
sh://onlyrsh.mx:r/linux/local
|
|
sh://joe@want.compression.edu:C/private
|
|
sh://joe@noncompressed.ssh.edu/private
|
|
sh://joe@somehost.ssh.edu:2222/private
|
|
.fi
|
|
.\"NODE " SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) filesystem"
|
|
.SH " SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) filesystem"
|
|
The SFTP file system is a network based file system that allows you to
|
|
manipulate the files in a remote machine as if they were local.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To connect to a remote machine, you just need to chdir
|
|
into a special directory which name is in the following
|
|
format:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I sftp://[user@]machine:[port]/[remote\-dir]
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.I user,
|
|
.I port
|
|
and
|
|
.I remote\-dir
|
|
elements are optional. If you specify the
|
|
.I user
|
|
element, the Midnight Commander will try to login on the remote
|
|
machine as that user, otherwise it will use your login name.
|
|
.I port
|
|
\- specify the port used by remote server (22 by default).
|
|
If the
|
|
.I remote\-dir
|
|
element is present, your current directory on the remote machine will be
|
|
set to this one.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
sftp://onlyrsh.mx/linux/local
|
|
sftp://joe:password@want.compression.edu/private
|
|
sftp://joe@noncompressed.ssh.edu/private
|
|
sftp://joe@somehost.ssh.edu:2222/private
|
|
.fi
|
|
.\"NODE " Undelete File System"
|
|
.SH " Undelete File System"
|
|
On Linux systems, if you asked configure to use the ext2fs undelete
|
|
facilities, you will have the undelete file system available.
|
|
Recovery of deleted files is only available on ext2 file systems. The
|
|
undelete file system is just an interface to the ext2fs library to
|
|
retrieve all of the deleted files names on an ext2fs and provides and
|
|
to extract the selected files into a regular partition.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To use this file system, you have to chdir into the special file name
|
|
formed by the "undel://" prefix and the file name where the actual
|
|
file system resides.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, to recover deleted files on the second partition of the
|
|
first SCSI disk on Linux, you would use the following path name:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
undel://sda2
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
It may take a while for the undelfs to load the required information
|
|
before you start browsing files there.
|
|
.\"NODE " SMB File System"
|
|
.SH " SMB File System"
|
|
The smbfs allows you to manipulate files on remote machines with SMB
|
|
(or CIFS) protocol. These include Windows for Workgroups,
|
|
Windows 9x/ME/XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Samba.
|
|
To actually use it, you may try to use the panel command "SMB link..."
|
|
(accessible from the menubar) or you may directly change your current
|
|
directory to it using the cd command to a path name that looks like this:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I smb://[user@]machine[/service][/remote\-dir]
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.IR user ,
|
|
.I service
|
|
and
|
|
.I remote\-dir
|
|
elements are optional.
|
|
The
|
|
.IR user ,
|
|
.I domain
|
|
and
|
|
.I password
|
|
can be specified in an input dialog.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
smb://machine/Share
|
|
smb://other_machine
|
|
smb://guest@machine/Public/Irlex
|
|
.fi
|
|
.\"NODE " EXTernal File System"
|
|
.SH " EXTernal File System"
|
|
.B extfs
|
|
allows you to integrate numerous features and file types into GNU Midnight
|
|
Commander in an easy way, by writing scripts.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Extfs filesystems can be divided into two categories:
|
|
.PP
|
|
1. Stand\-alone filesystems, which are not associated with any existing
|
|
file. They represent certain system\-wide data as a directory tree.
|
|
You can invoke them by typing
|
|
.RI ' "cd fsname://" '
|
|
where fsname is an extfs short name (see below). Examples of such
|
|
filesystems include audio (list audio tracks on the CD) or apt (list of
|
|
all Debian packages in the system).
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, to list CD\-Audio tracks on your CD\-ROM drive, type
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
cd audio://
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
2. 'Archive' filesystems (like rpm, patchfs and more), which represent
|
|
contents of a file as a directory tree. It can consist of 'real' files
|
|
compressed in an archive (urar, rpm) or virtual files, like messages
|
|
in a mailbox (mailfs) or parts of a patch (patchfs). To access such
|
|
filesystems
|
|
.RI ' fsname:// '
|
|
should be appended to the archive name. Note that the archive itself
|
|
can be on another vfs.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, to list contents of a zip archive documents.zip type
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
cd documents.zip/uzip://
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
In many aspects, you could treat extfs like any other directory. For
|
|
instance, you can add it to the hotlist or change to it from directory
|
|
history. An important limitation is that you cannot invoke shell
|
|
commands inside extfs, just like any other non\-local VFS.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Common extfs scripts included with Midnight Commander are:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B a
|
|
access 'A:' DOS/Windows diskette
|
|
.RI ( "cd a://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B apt
|
|
front end to Debian's APT package management system
|
|
.RI ( "cd apt://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B audio
|
|
audio CD ripping and playing
|
|
.RI ( "cd audio://"
|
|
or
|
|
.IR "cd device/audio://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B bpp
|
|
package of Bad Penguin GNU/Linux distribution
|
|
.RI ( "cd file.bpp/bpp://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B deb
|
|
package of Debian GNU/Linux distribution
|
|
.RI ( "cd file.deb/deb://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B dpkg
|
|
Debian GNU/Linux installed packages
|
|
.RI ( "cd deb://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B hp48
|
|
view and copy files to/from a HP48 calculator
|
|
.RI ( "cd hp48://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B lslR
|
|
browsing of lslR listings as found on many FTPs
|
|
.RI ( "cd filename/lslR://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B mailfs
|
|
mbox\-style mailbox files support
|
|
.RI ( "cd mailbox/mailfs://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B patchfs
|
|
extfs to handle unified and context diffs
|
|
.RI ( "cd filename/patchfs://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B rpm
|
|
RPM package
|
|
.RI ( "cd filename/rpm://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B rpms
|
|
RPM database management
|
|
.RI ( "cd rpms://" ).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B ulha, urar, uzip, uzoo, uar, uha
|
|
archivers
|
|
.RI ( "cd archive/xxxx://"
|
|
where xxxx is one of:
|
|
.IR ulha ,
|
|
.IR urar ,
|
|
.IR uzip ,
|
|
.IR uzoo ,
|
|
.IR uar ,
|
|
.IR uha ).
|
|
.PP
|
|
You could bind file type/extension to specified extfs as described in the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Edit Extension File
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
section. Here is an example entry for Debian packages:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
regex/\.deb$
|
|
Open=%cd %p/deb://
|
|
.fi
|
|
.\"NODE "Colors"
|
|
.SH "Colors"
|
|
The Midnight Commander will try to detect if your terminal supports
|
|
color using the terminal database and your terminal name. Sometimes
|
|
it gets confused, so you may force color mode or disable color mode
|
|
using the \-c and \-b flag respectively.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If the program is compiled with the Slang screen manager instead of
|
|
ncurses, it will also check the variable
|
|
.B COLORTERM,
|
|
if it is set, it has the same effect as the \-c flag.
|
|
.PP
|
|
You may specify terminals that always force color mode
|
|
by adding the
|
|
.I color_terminals
|
|
variable to the Colors section of the initialization file. This will
|
|
prevent the Midnight Commander from trying to detect if your terminal
|
|
supports color. Example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
[Colors]
|
|
color_terminals=linux,xterm
|
|
color_terminals=terminal\-name1,terminal\-name2...
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
The program can be compiled with both ncurses and slang, ncurses does
|
|
not provide a way to force color mode: ncurses uses just the
|
|
information in the terminal database.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The Midnight Commander provides a way to change the default colors.
|
|
Currently the colors are configured using the environment variable
|
|
.B MC_COLOR_TABLE
|
|
or the Colors section in the initialization file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
In the Colors section, the default color map is loaded from the
|
|
.I base_color
|
|
variable. You can specify an alternate color map for a terminal by
|
|
using the terminal name as the key in this section. Example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
[Colors]
|
|
base_color=
|
|
xterm=menu=magenta:marked=,magenta:markselect=,red
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
The format for the color definition is:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
<keyword>=<fgcolor>,<bgcolor>,<attributes>:<keyword>=...
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
The colors are optional, and the keywords are: normal, selected, disabled, marked,
|
|
markselect, errors, input, inputmark, inputunchanged, commandlinemark,
|
|
reverse, gauge, header, inputhistory, commandhistory. Button bar colors are:
|
|
bbarhotkey, bbarbutton. Status bar color: statusbar. Menu colors are: menunormal,
|
|
menusel, menuhot, menuhotsel, menuinactive. Dialog colors are: dnormal, dfocus,
|
|
dhotnormal, dhotfocus, dtitle. Error dialog colors are: errdfocus, errdhotnormal,
|
|
errdhotfocus, errdtitle. Help colors are: helpnormal, helpitalic, helpbold,
|
|
helplink, helpslink, helptitle. Viewer color are: viewbold, viewunderline, viewselected.
|
|
Editor colors are: editnormal, editbold, editmarked, editwhitespace, editlinestate.
|
|
Popup menu colors are: pmenunormal, pmenusel, pmenutitle.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I header
|
|
determines the color of panel header, the line that contains column titles
|
|
and sort mode indicator.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I input
|
|
determines the color of input lines used in query dialogs.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I gauge
|
|
determines the color of the filled part of the progress bar (gauge),
|
|
which is used to show the user the progress of file operations, such as
|
|
copying.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I disabled
|
|
determines the color of the widget that cannot be selected.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The dialog boxes use the following colors:
|
|
.I dnormal
|
|
is used for the normal text,
|
|
.I dfocus
|
|
is the color used for the currently selected component,
|
|
.I dhotnormal
|
|
is the color used to differentiate the hotkey color in normal
|
|
components, whereas the
|
|
.I dhotfocus
|
|
color is used for the highlighted color in the currently selected
|
|
component.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Menus use the same scheme but uses the menunormal, menusel, menuhot, menuhotsel
|
|
and menuinactive tags instead.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Help uses the following colors:
|
|
.I helpnormal
|
|
is used for normal text,
|
|
.I helpitalic
|
|
is used for text which is emphasized in italic in the manual page,
|
|
.I helpbold
|
|
is used for text which is emphasized in bold in the manual page,
|
|
.I helplink
|
|
is used for not selected hyperlinks and
|
|
.I helpslink
|
|
is used for selected hyperlink.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Popup menu uses following colors:
|
|
.I pmenunormal
|
|
is used for non\-selected menu items and as a main color of popup menu window,
|
|
.I pmenusel
|
|
is used for selected menu item,
|
|
.I pmenutitle
|
|
is used for popup menu title.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The possible colors are: black, gray, red, brightred, green,
|
|
brightgreen, brown, yellow, blue, brightblue, magenta, brightmagenta,
|
|
cyan, brightcyan, lightgray and white. And there is a special keyword
|
|
for transparent background. It is 'default'. The 'default' can only be
|
|
used for background color. Another special keyword "base" means mc's main
|
|
colors. When 256 colors are available, they can be specified either as
|
|
color16 to color255, or as rgb000 to rgb555 and gray0 to gray23. Example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
[Colors]
|
|
base_color=normal=white,default:marked=magenta,default
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Attributes can be any of bold, underline, reverse and blink, appended by a
|
|
plus sign if more than one are desired. The special word "none" means no
|
|
attributes, without attempting to fall back to base_color. Example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
menuhotsel=yellow;black;bold+underline
|
|
.fi
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Skins"
|
|
.SH "Skins"
|
|
You can change the appearance of Midnight Commander.
|
|
To do this, you must specify a file that contain descriptions of colors
|
|
and lines to draw boxes. Redefining of the colors is entirely compatible
|
|
with the assignment of colors, as described in Section
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Colors\&.
|
|
.\"Colors"
|
|
.PP
|
|
If your skin contains any of 256\-color definitions, you should define
|
|
the '256colors' key set to TRUE value in [skin] section.
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
A skin\-file is searched on the following algorithm (to the first one found):
|
|
.IP
|
|
.br
|
|
1) command line option
|
|
.B \-S <skin>
|
|
or
|
|
.B \-\-skin=<skin>
|
|
.br
|
|
2) Environment variable
|
|
.B MC_SKIN
|
|
.br
|
|
3) Parameter
|
|
.B skin
|
|
in section
|
|
.B [Midnight\-Commander]
|
|
in config file.
|
|
.br
|
|
4) File
|
|
.B %sysconfdir%/mc/skins/default.ini
|
|
.br
|
|
5) File
|
|
.B %prefix%/share/mc/skins/default.ini
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Command line option, environment variable and parameter in config file may
|
|
contain the absolute path to the skin\-file (with the extension \.ini
|
|
or without it). Search of skin\-file will occur in (to the first one found):
|
|
.IP
|
|
1)
|
|
.B ~/.local/share/mc/skins/
|
|
.br
|
|
2)
|
|
.B @sysconfdir@/mc/skins/
|
|
.br
|
|
3)
|
|
.B %prefix%/share/mc/skins/
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
For getting extended info, refer to:
|
|
.IP
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Description of section and parameters
|
|
.\"Skins sections"
|
|
.br
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Color pair definitions
|
|
.\"Skins colors"
|
|
.br
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Draw lines
|
|
.\"Skins lines"
|
|
.br
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Compatibility
|
|
.\"Skins oldcolors"
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE " Skins sections"
|
|
.SH " Description of section and parameters"
|
|
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [skin]
|
|
contain metainfo for skin\-file. Parameter
|
|
.I description
|
|
contain short text about skin.
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [filehighlight]
|
|
contain descriptions of color pairs for filenames highlighting.
|
|
Name of parameters must be equal to names of sections into
|
|
filehighlight.ini file.
|
|
See
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Filenames Highlight
|
|
.\"Filenames Highlight"
|
|
for getting more info.
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [core]
|
|
describes the elements that are used everywhere.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I _default_
|
|
Default color pair. Used in all other sections if they not contain
|
|
color definitions
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I selected
|
|
cursor
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I marked
|
|
selected data
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I markselect
|
|
cursor on selected data
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I gauge
|
|
color of the filled part of the progress bar
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I input
|
|
color of input lines used in query dialogs
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I inputmark
|
|
color of input selected text
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I inputunhanged
|
|
color of input text before first modification or cursor movement
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I commandlinemark
|
|
color of selected text in command line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I reverse
|
|
reverse color
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [dialog]
|
|
describes the elements that are placed on dialog windows (except error dialogs).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I _default_
|
|
Default color for this section. Used [core]._default_ if not specified
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I dfocus
|
|
Color of active element (in focus)
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I dhotnormal
|
|
Color of hotkeys
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I dhotfocus
|
|
Color of hotkeys in focused element
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [error]
|
|
describes the elements that are placed on error dialog windows
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I _default_
|
|
Default color for this section. Used [core]._default_ if not specified
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I errdhotnormal
|
|
Color of hotkeys
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I errdhotfocus
|
|
Color of hotkeys in focused element
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [menu]
|
|
describes the elements that are placed in menu. This section describes
|
|
system menu (called by F9) and user\-defined menus (called by F2 in panels
|
|
and by F11 in editor).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I _default_
|
|
Default color for this section. Used [core]._default_ if not specified
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I entry
|
|
Color of menu items
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I menuhot
|
|
Color of menu hotkeys
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I menusel
|
|
Color of active menu item (in focus)
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I menuhotsel
|
|
Color of menu hotkeys in focused menu item
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I menuinactive
|
|
Color of inactive menu
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [help]
|
|
describes the elements that are placed on help window.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I _default_
|
|
Default color for this section. Used [core]._default_ if not specified
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I helpitalic
|
|
Color pair for element with
|
|
.B italic
|
|
attribute
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I helpbold
|
|
Color pair for element with
|
|
.B bold
|
|
attribute
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I helplink
|
|
Color of links
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I helpslink
|
|
Color of active link (on focus)
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [editor]
|
|
describes the colors of elements placed in editor.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I _default_
|
|
Default color for this section. Used [core]._default_ if not specified
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I editbold
|
|
Color pair for element with
|
|
.B bold
|
|
attribute
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I editmarked
|
|
Color of selected text
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I editwhitespace
|
|
Color of tabs and trailing spaces highlighting
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I editlinestate
|
|
Color for line state area
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Section
|
|
.B [viewer]
|
|
describes the colors of elements placed in viewer.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I viewunderline
|
|
Color pair for element with
|
|
.B underline
|
|
attribute
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE " Skins colors"
|
|
.SH " Color pair definitions"
|
|
Any parameter in skin\-file contain definition of color pair.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Color pairs described as two colors and the optional attributes
|
|
separated by ';'. First field sets the foreground color, second
|
|
field sets background color, third field sets the attributes.
|
|
Any of the fields may be omitted, in this case value will be
|
|
taken from default color pair (global color pair or from default
|
|
color pair of this section).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Example:
|
|
.br
|
|
.nf
|
|
[core]
|
|
# green on black
|
|
_default_=green;black
|
|
# green (default) on blue
|
|
selected=;blue
|
|
# yellow on black (default)
|
|
# underlined yellow on black (default)
|
|
marked=yellow;;underline
|
|
.fi
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Possible colors (names) and attributes are described in
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Colors\&.
|
|
.\"Colors"
|
|
section.
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE " Skins lines"
|
|
.SH " Draw lines"
|
|
Lines sets in section
|
|
.B [Lines]
|
|
into skin\-file. By default single lines are used, but you may redefine
|
|
to usage of any utf\-8 symbols (like to lines, for example).
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I WARNING!!!
|
|
When you build Midnight Commander with the Ncurses screen library
|
|
usage of drawing lines is limited!
|
|
Possible only drawing a single lines.
|
|
For all questions and comments please contact the developers of Ncurses.
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Descriptions of parameters
|
|
.BR [Lines] :
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I lefttop
|
|
left\-top line fragment.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I righttop
|
|
right\-top line fragment.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I centertop
|
|
down branch of horizontal line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I centerbottom
|
|
up branch of horizontal line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I leftbottom
|
|
left\-bottom line fragment
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I rightbottom
|
|
right\-bottom line fragment
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I leftmiddle
|
|
right branch of vertical line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I rightmiddle
|
|
left branch of vertical line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I centermiddle
|
|
cross of lines
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I horiz
|
|
horizontal line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I vert
|
|
vertical line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I thinhoriz
|
|
thin horizontal line
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I thinvert
|
|
thin vertical line
|
|
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE " Skins oldcolors"
|
|
.SH " Compatibility"
|
|
|
|
Appointment of color by skin\-files fully compatible with
|
|
the appointment of the colors described in
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Colors\&.
|
|
.\"Colors"
|
|
section.
|
|
.PP
|
|
In this case, reassignment of colors has priority over the skin file and is
|
|
complementary.
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Filenames Highlight"
|
|
.SH "Filenames Highlight"
|
|
Section [filehighlight] in current skin\-file contains key names as
|
|
highlight groups and values as color pairs. Color pairs is documented
|
|
in
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
Skins
|
|
.\"Skins"
|
|
section.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Rules of filenames highlight are placed in %prefix%/share/mc/filehighlight.ini file
|
|
(~/.config/mc/filehighlight.ini).
|
|
Name of section in this file must be equal to parameters names in
|
|
[filehighlight] section (in current skin\-file).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Keys in these groups are:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I type
|
|
file type. If present, all other options are ignored.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I regexp
|
|
regular expression. If present, 'extensions' option is ignored.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I extensions
|
|
list of extensions of files. Separated by ';' sign.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I extensions_case
|
|
(make sense only with 'extensions' parameter) make 'extensions'
|
|
rule case sentitive (true) or not (false).
|
|
.PP
|
|
`type' key may have values:
|
|
.nf
|
|
\- FILE (all files)
|
|
\- FILE_EXE
|
|
\- DIR (all directories)
|
|
\- LINK_DIR
|
|
\- LINK (all links except stale link)
|
|
\- HARDLINK
|
|
\- SYMLINK
|
|
\- STALE_LINK
|
|
\- DEVICE (all device files)
|
|
\- DEVICE_BLOCK
|
|
\- DEVICE_CHAR
|
|
\- SPECIAL (all special files)
|
|
\- SPECIAL_SOCKET
|
|
\- SPECIAL_FIFO
|
|
\- SPECIAL_DOOR
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
|
|
.\"NODE "Special Settings"
|
|
.SH "Special Settings"
|
|
Most of the Midnight Commander settings can be changed from the
|
|
menus. However, there are a small number of settings which can only be
|
|
changed by editing the setup file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
These variables may be set in your ~/.config/mc/ini file:
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I clear_before_exec
|
|
By default the Midnight Commander clears the screen before executing a
|
|
command. If you would prefer to see the output of the command at the
|
|
bottom of the screen, edit your ~/.config/mc/ini file and change the value of
|
|
the field clear_before_exec to 0.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I confirm_view_dir
|
|
If you press F3 on a directory, normally MC enters that directory. If
|
|
this flag is set to 1, then MC will ask for confirmation before changing
|
|
the directory if you have files tagged.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I ftpfs_retry_seconds
|
|
This value is the number of seconds the Midnight Commander will wait
|
|
before attempting to reconnect to an FTP server that has denied the
|
|
login. If the value is zero, the login will no be retried.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I max_dirt_limit
|
|
Specifies how many screen updates can be skipped at most in the internal
|
|
file viewer. Normally this value is not significant, because the code
|
|
automatically adjusts the number of updates to skip according to the
|
|
rate of incoming keystrokes. However, on very slow machines or
|
|
terminals with a fast keyboard auto repeat, a big value can make screen
|
|
updates too jumpy.
|
|
.IP
|
|
It seems that setting max_dirt_limit to 10 causes the best behavior,
|
|
and that is the default value.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I mouse_move_pages_viewer
|
|
Controls if scrolling with the mouse is done by pages or line by line
|
|
on the internal file viewer.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I only_leading_plus_minus
|
|
Allow special treatment for '+', '\-', '*' in the command line (select,
|
|
unselect, reverse selection) only if the command line is empty. You
|
|
don't need to quote those characters in the middle of the command line.
|
|
On the other hand, you cannot use them to change selection when the
|
|
command line is not empty.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I show_output_starts_shell
|
|
This variable only works if you are not using the subshell support.
|
|
When you use the C\-o keystroke to go back to the user screen, if this
|
|
one is set, you will get a fresh shell. Otherwise, pressing any key
|
|
will bring you back to the Midnight Commander.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I timeformat_recent
|
|
Change the time format used to display dates less than 6 months from
|
|
now.
|
|
See strftime or date man page for the format specification. If this
|
|
option is absent, default timeformat is used.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I timeformat_old
|
|
Change the time format used to display dates older than 6 months from
|
|
now or for dates in the future.
|
|
See strftime or date man page for the format specification. If this
|
|
option is absent, default timeformat is used.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I torben_fj_mode
|
|
If this flag is set, then the home and end keys will work slightly
|
|
different on the panels, instead of moving the selection to the first
|
|
and last files in the panels, they will act as follows:
|
|
.IP
|
|
The home key will: Go up to the middle line, if below it; else go to the
|
|
top line unless it is already on the top line, in this case it will go
|
|
to the first file in the panel.
|
|
.IP
|
|
The end key has a similar behavior: Go down to the middle line, if over
|
|
it; else go to the bottom line unless you already are at the bottom
|
|
line, in such case it will move the selection to the last file name in
|
|
the panel.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I use_file_to_guess_type
|
|
If this variable is on (the default) it will spawn the file command to
|
|
match the file types listed on the
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
mc.ext file\&.
|
|
.\"Edit Extension File"
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I xtree_mode
|
|
If this variable is on (default is off) when you browse the file system
|
|
on a Tree panel, it will automatically reload the other panel with the
|
|
contents of the selected directory.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I fish_directory_timeout
|
|
This variable holds the lifetime of a directory cache entry in seconds. The
|
|
default value is 900 seconds.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I clipboard_store
|
|
This variable contains path (with options) to the external clipboard
|
|
utility like 'xclip' to read text into X selection from file.
|
|
For example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
clipboard_store=xclip \-i
|
|
.fi
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I clipboard_paste
|
|
This variable contains path (with options) to the external clipboard
|
|
utility like 'xclip' to print the selection to standard out.
|
|
For example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
clipboard_paste=xclip \-o
|
|
.fi
|
|
.TP
|
|
.I autodetect_codeset
|
|
This option allows use the `enca' command to autodetect codeset of text files
|
|
in internal viewer and editor. List of valid values can be obtain by the
|
|
`enca \-\-list languages | cut \-d : \-f1' command. Option must be located
|
|
in the [Misc] section.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
autodetect_codeset=russian
|
|
.fi
|
|
.\"NODE "Parameters for external editor or viewer"
|
|
.SH "Parameters for external editor or viewer"
|
|
The Midnight Commander provides a way for specify an options for external editors
|
|
and viewers. The Midnight Commander tries to search the
|
|
"[External editor or viewer parameters]" section in the system initialization file
|
|
(the mc.lib file located in the Midnight Commander library directory)
|
|
and then in the ~/.config/mc/ini file. The option name should be equal to the name
|
|
(full pathname) of external editor or viewer. The option value can contain following
|
|
variables:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %filename
|
|
.IP
|
|
The filename to edit/view.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %lineno
|
|
.IP
|
|
The start line in the opening file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
[External editor or viewer parameters]
|
|
vi=%filename +%lineno
|
|
joe=%filename +%lineno
|
|
more=%filename +%lineno
|
|
.fi
|
|
.\"NODE "Terminal databases"
|
|
.SH "Terminal databases"
|
|
The Midnight Commander provides a way to fix your system terminal
|
|
database without requiring root privileges. The Midnight Commander
|
|
searches in the system initialization file (the mc.lib file located in
|
|
the Midnight Commander library directory) and in the
|
|
~/.config/mc/ini file for the section
|
|
"terminal:your\-terminal\-name" and then for the section
|
|
"terminal:general", each line of the section contains a key symbol that
|
|
you want to define, followed by an equal sign and the definition for the
|
|
key. You can use the special \\e form to represent the escape character
|
|
and the ^x to represent the control\-x character.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The possible key symbols are:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
f0 to f20 Function keys f0\-f20
|
|
bs backspace
|
|
home home key
|
|
end end key
|
|
up up arrow key
|
|
down down arrow key
|
|
left left arrow key
|
|
right right arrow key
|
|
pgdn page down key
|
|
pgup page up key
|
|
insert the insert character
|
|
delete the delete character
|
|
complete to do completion
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
For example, to define the key insert to be the Escape + [ + O + p, you
|
|
set this in the ini file:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
insert=\\e[Op
|
|
.fi
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
Also now you can use
|
|
.I extended learn keys.
|
|
For example:
|
|
|
|
.nf
|
|
ctrl\-alt\-right=\\e[[1;6C
|
|
ctrl\-alt\-left=\\e[[1;6D
|
|
.fi
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
This means that ctrl+alt+left sends a \\e[[1;6D escape sequence
|
|
and therefore Midnight Commander interprets "\\e[[1;6D" as Ctrl\-Alt\-Left.
|
|
|
|
.PP
|
|
The
|
|
.I complete
|
|
key symbol represents the escape sequences used to invoke the completion
|
|
process, this is invoked with Alt\-tab, but you can define other keys to do
|
|
the same work (on those keyboard with tons of nice and unused keys
|
|
everywhere).
|
|
.SH ""
|
|
.\"NODE "FILES"
|
|
.SH "FILES"
|
|
Full paths below may vary between installations. They are also affected
|
|
by the
|
|
.BR MC_DATADIR
|
|
environment variable. If it's set, its value is used instead of
|
|
%prefix%/share/mc in the paths below.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %prefix%/share/mc/mc.hlp
|
|
.IP
|
|
The help file for the program.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %prefix%/share/mc/mc.ext
|
|
.IP
|
|
The default system\-wide extensions file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ~/.config/mc/mc.ext
|
|
.IP
|
|
User's own extension, view configuration and edit configuration
|
|
file. They override the contents of the system wide files if present.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %prefix%/share/mc/mc.ini
|
|
.IP
|
|
The default system\-wide setup for the Midnight Commander, used only if
|
|
the user doesn't have his own ~/.config/mc/ini file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %prefix%/share/mc/mc.lib
|
|
.IP
|
|
Global settings for the Midnight Commander. Settings in this file
|
|
affect all users, whether they have ~/.config/mc/ini or not. Currently, only
|
|
.\"LINK2"
|
|
terminal settings
|
|
.\"Terminal databases"
|
|
are loaded from mc.lib.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ~/.config/mc/ini
|
|
.IP
|
|
User's own setup. If this file is present then the setup is loaded
|
|
from here instead of the system\-wide startup file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %prefix%/share/mc/mc.hint
|
|
.IP
|
|
This file contains the hints displayed by the program.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I %prefix%/share/mc/mc.menu
|
|
.IP
|
|
This file contains the default system\-wide applications menu.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ~/.config/mc/menu
|
|
.IP
|
|
User's own application menu. If this file is present it is used instead
|
|
of the system\-wide applications menu.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ~/.cache/mc/Tree
|
|
.IP
|
|
The directory list for the directory tree and tree view features.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I ~/.local/share/mc.menu
|
|
.IP
|
|
Local user\-defined menu. If this file is present, it is used instead of
|
|
the home or system\-wide applications menu.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To change default root directory of MC, you can use
|
|
.BR MC_HOME
|
|
environment variable. The value of MC_HOME must be an absolute path. If MC_HOME
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is unset or empty, HOME variable is used. If HOME is unset or empty, MC
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directories are get from GLib library.
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.\"SKIP_SECTION"
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.SH "LICENSE"
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This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the built\-in
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help for details on the License and the lack of warranty.
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.\"NODE "AVAILABILITY"
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.SH "AVAILABILITY"
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The latest version of this program can be found at
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http://ftp.midnight\-commander.org/.
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.\"NODE "SEE ALSO"
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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ed(1), gpm(1), terminfo(1), view(1), sh(1), bash(1),
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tcsh(1), zsh(1).
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.PP
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.nf
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The Midnight Commander page on the World Wide Web:
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http://www.midnight\-commander.org/
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.fi
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.\"NODE "AUTHORS"
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.SH "AUTHORS"
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Authors and contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file in the source
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distribution.
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.\"NODE "BUGS"
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.SH "BUGS"
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|
See the file TODO in the distribution for information on what remains to
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be done.
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.PP
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If you want to report a problem with the program, please create bugreport
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|
at http://www.midnight\-commander.org/.
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.PP
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|
Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version of the program
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|
you are running
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.RI ( "mc \-V"
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|
displays this information), the operating system you are running the
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program on. If the program crashes, we would appreciate a stack trace.
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