Re: mc Digest, Vol 146, Issue 10

["A.J. Bonnema" <gbonnema xs4all nl>]

On 10/15/2016 10:57 AM, Mike wrote:
> I've never met Peter Norton. I think I installed some Norton software 
> in the 90s. I don't recall much about it or him so I have nothing to 
> compare. I think there is a nc clone/wannabee out there somewhere, but 
> mc is only similar by accident - the 2 panel thing. Apparently it is a 
> "visual shell for *nix environments", not a "file manager", although I 
> categorize it as one, like most users I think. midnight commander has 
> its origins from the 90s too. It sucked far worse back then. 
Hey Mike,

I used to love Norton Commander (nc) because of its function keys for 
copy and move in combination with easy selection of files. Those are the 
traits that mc copied from norton and made me start using MC. Probably 
MC also copied the editting. In comparison to DOS at the time, Norton 
Commander was really a breeze of fresh air. He really thought things 
through. When I switched to Linux I went  to MC and never looked back. 
He also made other more system oriented software for windows, but I am 
getting OT now.

Anyway, I like MC for the same reasons and especially for the reason it 
is reliable. With one exception everything works as I expect it to. The 
exception is that sometimes the current directory is remembered when 
finishing MC, and sometimes it isn't and you end up in the original 
directory that you started MC. This usually happens after full upgrade 
or installing a new OS (Fedora -> Ubuntu or back)

I haven't seen this for a while, so probably the setup of MC has 
improved. I work from Fedora 24 atm.

Kind regards, Guus.