Note the F keys have slightly different uses in the editor - refer to the function bar at the bottom. Mouse highlighting to copy and paste works similarly to the terminal, but use the shift key at the same time: shift, highlight, then shift and paste with the middle button.
Or, paste other items on your clipboard with Shift-Insert. A shortcut to jump to the top or bottom of a long file while editing is Ctl-home or Ctl-end. If you access the site regularly, add it to your directory hotlist for fastest access.
Go to Command menu - Directory Hotlist - add by either typing it in, or if you are connected in a panel already, simply Add Current. To disconnect ftp, type cd in the command line and it will return you to your home directory. Arrow down to FTP link, or use hotkey P. A dialog box will request the FTP address in the same format: Anonymous: ftp.
For all methods, the username alone can be entered, eg. If the command line is used, this is more secure, as the password may be read in plain language when scrolling back through the command line history. What if you have in the username? Originally, support for this was missing. Try enclosing the username in double quotation marks "user name":password ftp. Either use another ftp client, or this workaround:. Now connect to the site using the same format as an anonymous connection, and it will log you in instantly.
Change ftp configuration settings under Options menu, Virtual FS. This is where you can change the anonymous password, use of.
It would appear that the latest versions of mc don't have samba support, but it is planned to be included again in the future. Installing from Source: First, put on your patient hat! If you install binary rpm versions of the libraries, note that many also require the -devel packages. The INSTALL file also gives a list of configure options - many common ones are on by default, but samba and undelete must be selected on.
And, when I installed version 4. Works on ext2 and ext3 filesystems. More help: For a detailed guide by the developers of Midnight Commander, see here. Official FAQ here. F3 Begin of text selection. See table at bottom of this page. F19 is Shift-F9. F3 View file. F4 Edit file. F13 View raw file without extension specific. F14 Create new file. F19 Activate last used menu element. F20 Quiet exit, without confirmation. This is the opposite of the Plus key. Put the other panel to the listing mode if needed.
If the current panel is panelized, the other panel doesn't become panelized. Meta-p takes you to the last entry, Meta-n takes you to the next one. Find file. Email This BlogThis! This article will delve a bit further into Midnight Commander, and I plan to write more to cover some of the other file managers in more detail. Our latest Linux articles. It is particularly useful when a GUI is not available but can also be used as a primary file manager in a terminal session even when you are using a GUI.
It can be used with almost any of the common shells and remote terminals through SSH. Clicking on a file will select it, clicking on a menu item or a function key button will launch that menu or function.
This command installs Midnight Commander:. The figure below shows Midnight Commander when run as root in a terminal emulator session.
The user interface for Midnight Commander is two text-mode file panels, left and right, which each display the contents of a directory. The top of each panel displays the name of the current directory for that panel. The bottom portion of the interface displays information about the file or directory highlighted in each panel, a hint feature, and a line of function key labels; you can simply press the function key on your keyboard that corresponds to the function you want to perform or you can use the mouse to click on the desired button.
The selected file or directory is highlighted by a bar, white on blue in the figure above. Multiple selections can be made by holding the Shift key and pressing the Up or Down arrow keys. Just below each directory panel is an area that displays a small bit of information about the selected file. That includes the name, size, and permissions. This data is not displayed by default. To enable the display of file information, select either the Right or Left menu item , then choose Listing mode , select the User mini status line and press the Enter key to place an X there.
Then select OK and press the Enter key. Between the hint line and the function keys is a command line where you can type in any Linux command. Just above the hint line is a bit of information about the total space and the amount of free space in the current file system.
This information is not about the current directory, it is for the filesystem as a whole. Along the very top of the Midnight Commander interface is a menu bar containing menu items for configuring Midnight Commander, the left and right panes, and for issuing various file commands.
Midnight Commander, right pane menu open. You can use the mouse and click on the menu items, or press the F9 key to open the pull-down menus. Once the menu is opened, you can select a different one on the menu bar by using the Right and Left arrow keys. The Up or Down arrow keys are used to select one of the items in the current menu.
The first directory will be in the pannel you were in the last time you opend mc. The wikis are now using the new authentication system. Jump to: navigation , search. Files and directories can be moved, copied, deleted and the contents viewed easily through the F keys - always refer to the options list underneath.
If you are moving or copying files, it will first assume you are actioning to the opposite directory, giving you the option to change the destination.
In the directory panels, select single files simply by arrowing to them, and select multiple files by using Insert key to highlight — and Insert again on any file to unselect. Then F6, which moved them across to the Cartoons directory on the other side.
View contents or edit files using the F keys, and Enter or double-click on file to execute or open it with an external program. Many of these external programs Imagemagick, xpdf etc may not be installed by default in your distro, so the programs to open images, pdfs and word processor docs etc. There are two 'file' menus. The top one - F9 - is for accessing operations such as changing permissions or ownership, linking and symlinking.
The 'file user' menu from the bottom bar - F2 - deals mostly with zipping and extracting files and subdirectories, and also for opening the man page. Advanced Directory Operations. Although I don't use the command line much in mc, it should execute whatever you have typed into it. If you wish to su, it will return you to the terminal to type in your password. Then relaunch mc as root; if you ctl-o, it will take you back as user. While anything remains typed into the command line, the sideways arrow keys move through the text and won't work to navigate in the panels.
If your arrow keys suddenly don't work, check and clear the command line. To scroll back and forth through command history, use alt - p for previous and alt - n for next command instead of the the up and down arrow keys as in the terminal window , since mc uses them for navigating. The mouse works in mc, but the keyboard is handy to know when the battery goes flat in your cordless mouse From the man page:. The Midnight Commander comes with mouse support.
When you left click on a file in the directory panels, that file is selected; if you click with the right button, the file is marked or unmarked, depending on the previous state. Double-clicking on a file will try to execute the command if it is an executable program; and if the extension file has a program specified for the file's extension, the specified program is executed.
Also, it is possible to execute the commands assigned to the function key labels by clicking on them. If a mouse button is clicked on the top frame line of the directory panel, it is scrolled one pageful backward. Correspondingly, a click on the bottom frame line will cause a scroll of one pageful forward. This frame line method works also in the Help Viewer and the Directory Tree. If you are running the Commander with the mouse support, you can bypass the Commander and get the default mouse behavior cutting and pasting text by holding down the Shift key.
If your mouse does not work in mc, check that gpm mouse server is installed and running. All sorts of archives - RPM, deb, tgz, iso, rar, cpio etc. The individual files can be viewed and extracted without needing to unpack or install - even password-protected archives. Certain types of archive files need other packages installed to look inside: eg. And to access iso files, I needed package cdrkit-isotools may be installed by default on your distro, but not on PCLinuxOS.
To see an overall view, F3 directly onto the file. In this screen, the F keys have different functions again. To quit this screen, use F10 or click on quit at the bottom, if F10 instead activates a menu from your Gnome terminal.
To access the contents, Enter onto the file, then drill down into the contents, where you can now read the text files with F3 or copy out individual files.
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