On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:36:15 -0700
"Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka"
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:05:42AM +0100, KMcLauchlan wrote:
you use a character-based file manager like Midnite Commander or Ytree?
I fall in into this category. I am using WindowManager, I do most of my job in xterm, and yes, I use Midnight Commander quite often.
Me too. I run mc in an xterm and totally rely on it for navigation, viewing an editing files, launching apps, etc. I just recently discovered that if I hit enter on an html file in mc, it will open the page in mozilla. Very handy for quick searching thru saved html files.
For me, both Nautilus and Konq are just clumsy compared with mc for performing file operations.
Yeah, they are kindof like the "Explorer" in MS Windows, and make it harder to do the job. The only advantage is the "drag'n'drop" support. But almost everyone can do things faster with the keyboard, than the mouse.
Well, I would call mc a (bad?) habit of mine from DOS days.
No, it's a "good thing" you brought from the dos age. The curses based file managers are the basis of high productivity in manipulating files. They are superior because they give you the same interface, in or out of X, so you are just as good in a terminal as in an xterm.
I know, I am not typical, but I am very comfortable with these tools.
I think mc users are very typical, it's just that you don't read many posts from them about how to deal with their file management problems. On the other hand, there are always posts about Konq and Nautilus causing problems, giving the illusion that everyone is using them. Of course, there are alot of newbies who just don't know better. When I peruse thru comp.lang.os.misc, and people have trouble doing "this or that" with a file, the answer "use mc" inevitably appears. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation