Re: [Fwd: GMC: Recreating the best console file manager for X]

[famrom ran es (Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero)]

>I also like the MC/NC layout, but think it could be extended.  What I
>think would be nice would be the ability to have an arbitrarynumber of
>panes in one MC window.  That way, people who like win95 explorer
>interface can choose to have one pane, and set MC to use the icon view,
>while those who like MC/NC can use two panes and use a listing view.
>I think that there would be times whenhaving more than two panes would be
>useful.  Consider having two panes with directory listings, and an NC
>style QuickView pane, showing the contents of the selected file.  That way
>you could look at the contents of files while selecting some to be copied
>to another directory.

Add a tree view (another pane) of directories for fast change, and you have
a really cool fm.

GSR