On 2009 Nov 15, at 18:12, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas wrote: > Hi, > > > Viktor Szakáts wrote: >> While I'm comfortable at the command line, I couldn't yet find an >> alternative for Far Manager on *nix systems. > > Midnight commander is equivalent on Linux.
It's supposed to be, but in practice it's just can't work nearly that smoothly. F.e. even PgUp/PgDn died (or maybe it never worked) to navigate, I have to press Esc twice to exit a View/Edit window, Insert key doesn't work, the editor is quite limited in comparison. There are several dozens of such annoyances and most of them are probably not MC specific but inherent to all *nix CUI apps. Or, MC developers simply just don't care of these matters, or I'd have to get used to this clumsier environment and new/longer key shortcuts, and it eventually would get better. I'm trying since many years, but so far no success. In 95% of cases I end up using plain cmdline instead. To make it worse, MC behaves slightly differently depending on the account I use, depending on the OS/Terminal app I use, many times these differences seriously influence the way keys are handled and how output is presented (CP, colors). Executing cmds from cmdline always seems to put MC in a strange status where I usually have to quit it. Etc, etc, etc. All in all, it has a long way to come even close to Far Manager. And I didn't mention Unicode files or CP issues. Could be I'm just too stupid to "get" all the quirks of *nix CUI app behavior, but to me it looks like one of those things that I believe should work a lot smoother in this day and age. And I mean, out of the box. Probably the root of many issues is that *nix terminal seems to have a hard time utilizing lots of otherwise accessible key combinations, like Shift+Cursor, Insert, or Alt+Key. Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
