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File Managers compared

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Yes, very off-topic.... now moved to lazarus-other mailing list. So please only reply to the lazarus-other list.

Kostas Michalopoulos wrote
FAR blows MC away by a wide margin in terms of features, stability, UI, etc.

I have no idea how you get to that statement. I have used MC for years and it is rock solid and stable under Linux and FreeBSD. In terms of features.... do you even know of all the shortcuts in MC, and the ability to extend MC via the User Menu (F2 shortcut key)? My MC has lots and lots of features added via F2 menu.

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Graeme Geldenhuys

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Alexander Klenin wrote 12 lines
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: > Yes, i used Norton Commander for many years (basically until early > 2000s) and i use Midnight Commander always in Linux. Compared to FAR > Manager, Midnight Commander is very limited in features. I'm not sure > it makes sense to go and list all the differences, you can just > download and install it in a Windows box and try it yourself. You'll > see how much more advanced FAR is. I agree. Far Manager is certainly the most advanced in its class by a wide margin. Pity it is not portable.

I still fail to see the "by a wide margin" statement. I had a look at FAR, read the feature list, looked at lots of screenshots, viewed some comparison websites like Wikipedia etc. I can't see anything in FAR that Midnight Commander cannot do. The only thing I'm not sure about Midnight Commander (I'm not a MC expert) is if it supports tabs in the panels.

A big plus point for Midnight Commander is it can do everything out of the box without the need for 3rd party plugins (configurable panels, FTP, NFS, SSH, SMB/CIFS, creating various archives, navigate various archives as if they are standard directories, syntax highlighting for over a 100 file types, regex support, Hex viewer, directory shortcuts/favourites, user customizable and extendible menus and commands etc), Midnight Commander is cross platform. Plus Midnight Commander as been in existence before May 1994 (Dec 1997 was release v4.1 already - earlier release dates are unknown), and still under active development (last release 30 days ago).

Have you guys actually tried MC? I have tried FAR, so I can justify my statement above.

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Graeme Geldenhuys
J?rgen Hestermann wrote 5 lines
With Ztree you don't need to work directory based anymore. Instead, you can log into memory as many directories/files as you want, then select subsets and perform actions on it. A list of files can be from a single directory, from a branch, a whole drive or even multiple drives. And it's completely keyboard driven.

Wow, this sounds very interesting indeed. I'll have to take a look at it if I can.

A quick Google search revealed UnixTree (xtree for UNIX systems). I have no idea how it compares though.
http://www.unixtree.org/

I have found a lot of messages requesting a ZTree for Linux though.

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Michael Schnell
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 8 lines
On 05/09/12 13:06, Michael Schnell wrote: > Hijacking an already hijacked thread ?!?!?!?!? :-( PS: Just to make something clear. When I changed the subject line to "File Managers compared", ...

This had been a different thread :-) .

And here I answered to a message from "ajf" subject "lazarus archive".

-Michael

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