mc

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Jul 4 17:32:26 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Matej Cepl wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:46:18 -0400, Gene Heskett scripst:
>> I call bs on that!  For all the other fawncy file managers they've tried
>> to paint a decent face on over the last 5 years, not one of them can
>> even begin to compare with mc.  Sure, the current Krusader is pretty,
>> but it can't do 90% of what mc can.  When it can, then talk about
>> dropping mc, and not a millisecond before.
>
>I would personally strongly against removing mc ever (krusader, gnome-
>commander etc. suck when used through ssh), but I would be very much
>interested in knowing what 90% (repeat 90%!!!) of mc functionality is not
>covered by krusader. Would you englighten me, please?
>
>Matěj

For starters, it *(Krusader) doesn't unpack or install/update package files, 
in my case rpms.  It doesn't view a graphic file nearly as fast or well.  
There were a lot of things that mc does just by hitting the enter key, but 
Krusader seems to just ignore.

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