Abstract : Midnight Commander (MC) is one of the few tools I’m still using since I’ve been inducted into software engineering more than 10 years ago (for comparison I’ve changed 5 integrated development environments (IDE) ). MC is classified as “a visual file manager” but for me is something much more, it’s an engineering booster. In fact it’s my fist IDE (MCedit supports color highlighting for various programming languages). In short, MC is one of those few things that changes your world. That’s why I’m going to show you how you can painlessly integrate MC with Mac OS X bash terminal.

Midnight Commander For Mac Os

Goal : Configuring Midnight Commander under Mac OS X bash terminal

Acknowledgement : My gratitude goes to the open source community and especially to:
Miguel de Icaza – creator of Midnight Commander, Gnome, Mono, Gnumeric (and I guess other cool stuff)

FreeCommander is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The most popular Mac alternative is Double Commander, which is both free and Open Source.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to FreeCommander and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. DCommander for Mac OS X is another great alternative for Mac Users. It includes everything you would expect from an advanced dual-pane file manager, including FTP, SCP, archive browser, synchronization and more, all with minimal memory usage and multi-language support. Nimble Commander for Mac OS X is a 2 panel file manager especially for power. MuCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. It runs on any operating system with Java support (macOS, Windows, Linux,.BSD, Solaris.). Here's a non-exhaustive list of what you'll find: Virtual filesystem with support for local volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS and Bonjour. Hello, does not install. Ppc; 10.5.8 failed, installer does not have permission for writing in “/” thanks.

Let’s get started!

Installation: I’m a huge fan of homebrew (thanks Max!) and I advise you to install it and work with it. In short, Homebrew is “the missing package manager for OS X”. Installing Homebrew is as easy as running the following command in the terminal prompt:

Once you have Homebrew, installing MC is exactly three words:

Side note: You may wish to install bash-completion and take advantage of the Tab key on the terminal prompt. If so, do the following:

… and ensure that your .bash_profile has the following content inside:

Note that you have to perform:

Midnight Commander For Windows 10

or re-open your terminal for the changes to take effect.

Mac OS X – fixing the shortcuts mess: No, I have no idea why the Apple guys have created such a big mess with the keyboard shortcuts. And yes, it’s up to you, my dearest reader, to decide if you want to fix it as I suggest. Here is what I’ve done so that I can use my Functional keys (the F keys):

Go to:

… and make sure you have All controls checked

After that go to:

… and make sure you have Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys checked

Next open a Terminal and go to:

… and make sure you have Use option as meta keyunchecked.

Now, every F9 will enable MC menu bar and every F10 button press will exit MC (instead of doing a complex fingers split which may not work but which will certainly hurt your hand).

Playing with MC shortcuts: What about the cool MC shortcuts? Before I present you with some of the shortcuts mapping you should be aware that pressing two times the Esc button will close any MC pop-up or search box, and that there are three types of shortcuts:

Midnight Commander Mac Os X Download

Pressing (and releasing) Esc and then pressing another key
Pressing and holding Ctrl and then pressing another key
Using the Functional key

Here are some mappings:

Keeping working directory after exiting MC: Now, I find this MC feature really cool but of course it’s up to you to decide if you want to enabled it or not. In case you want, make sure you have the following (or similar, depending on the midnight commander version) line in your .bash_profile:

Note that you have to perform:

or re-open your terminal for the changes to take effect.