Midnight Commander Win32 port

<!--#exec cmd="header mc" --> <ul> </ul><H2>NAME </H2><ul> mc - Visual shell for Unix-like systems. </ul><H2>USAGE </H2><ul> <b>mc</b> [-abcCdfhPstuUVx?] [-l log] [dir1 [dir2]] [-v file] </ul><H2>DESCRIPTION </H2><ul> <p> The Midnight Commander is a directory browser/file manager for Unix-like operating systems. </ul><H2>OPTIONS </H2><ul> <p><dl compact><dt><i>-a</i> <dd>Disables the usage of graphic characters for line drawing. <dt><i>-b</i> <dd>Forces black and white display. <dt><i>-c</i> <dd>Force color mode, please check the section Colors for more information. <dt><i>-C arg</i> <dd>Used to specify a different color set in the command line. The format of arg is documented in the Colors section. <dt><i>-d</i> <dd>Disables mouse support. <dt><i>-f</i> <dd>Displays the compiled-in search paths for Midnight Commander files. <dt><i>-k</i> <dd>Reset softkeys to their default from the termcap/terminfo database. Only useful on HP terminals when the function keys don't work. <dt><i>-l file</i> <dd>Save the ftpfs dialog with the server in file. <dt><i>-P</i> <dd>At program end, the Midnight Commander will print the last working directory; this, along with the shell function below, will allow you to browse through your directories and automatically move to the last directory you were in (thanks to Torben Fjerdingstad and Sergey for contributing this function and the code which implements this option). <pre> <p><br>bash and zsh users: <br> <p><br>mc () <br>{ <br> MC=/tmp/mc$$-"$RANDOM" <br> /usr/bin/mc -P "$@" &gt; "$MC" <br> cd "`cat $MC`" <br> rm "$MC" <br> unset MC; <br>} <br> <p><br>tcsh users: <br>alias mc 'setenv MC `/usr/bin/mc -P !*`; cd $MC; unsetenv MC' <br></pre> <dt>I know the bash function could be shorter for zsh and bash but the <dd>backquotes on bash won't accept your suspension the program with C-z. <dt><i>-s</i> <dd>Turns on the slow terminal mode, in this mode the program will not draw expensive line drawing characters and will toggle verbose mode off. <dt><i>-t</i> <dd>Used only if the code was compiled with Slang and terminfo: it makes the Midnight Commander use the value of the <b>TERMCAP</b> variable for the terminal information instead of the information on the system wide terminal database <dt><i>-u</i> <dd>Disables the use of a concurrent shell (only makes sense if the Midnight Commander has been built with concurrent shell support). <dt><i>-U</i> <dd>Enables the use of the concurrent shell support (only makes sense if the Midnight Commander was built with the subshell support set as an optional feature). <dt><i>-v file</i> <dd>Enters the internal viewer to view the file specified. <dt><i>-V</i> <dd>Displays the version of the program. <dt><i>-x</i> <dd>Forces xterm mode. Used when running on xterm-capable terminals (two screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences). </dl> <p> If specified, the first path name is the directory to show in the selected panel; the second path name is the directory to be shown in the other panel. <p> </ul><H2>Overview </H2><ul> The screen of the Midnight Commander is divided into four parts. Almost all of the screen space is taken up by two directory panels. By default, the second bottommost line of the screen is the shell command line, and the bottom line shows the function key labels. The topmost line is the menu bar line. The menu bar line may not be visible, but appears if you click the topmost line with the mouse or press the F9 key. <p> The Midnight Commander provides a view of two directories at the same time. One of the panels is the current panel (a selection bar is in the current panel). Almost all operations take place on the current panel. Some file operations like Rename and Copy by default use the directory of the unselected panel as a destination (don't worry, they always ask you for confirmation first). For more information, see the sections on the Directory Panels, the Left and Right Menus and the File Menu. <p> You can execute system commands from the Midnight Commander by simply typing them. Everything you type will appear on the shell command line, and when you press Enter the Midnight Commander will execute the command line you typed; read the Shell Command Line and Input Line Keys sections to learn more about the command line. <p> </ul><H2>Mouse Support </H2><ul> The Midnight Commander comes with mouse support. It is activated whenever you are running on an <b>xterm(1)</b> terminal (it even works if you take a telnet or rlogin connection to another machine from the xterm) or if you are running on a Linux console and have the <b>gpm</b> mouse server running. <p> When you left click on a file in the directory panels, that file is selected; if you click with the right button, the file is marked (or unmarked, depending on the previous state). <p> Double-clicking on a file will try to execute the command if it is an executable program; and if the extension file has a program specified for the file's extension, the specified program is executed. <p> Also, it is possible to execute the commands assigned to the function key labels by clicking on them. <p> If a mouse button is clicked on the top frame line of the directory panel, it is scrolled one pageful backward. Correspondingly, a click on the bottom frame line will cause a scroll of one pageful forward. This frame line method works also in the Help Viewer and the Directory Tree. <p> The default auto repeat rate for the mouse buttons is 400 milliseconds. This may be changed to other values by editing the ~/.mc/ini file and changing the <i>mouse_repeat_rate</i> parameter. <p> If you are running the Commander with the mouse support, you can bypass the Commander and get the default mouse behavior (cutting and pasting text) by holding down the Shift key. </ul><H2> </H2><ul> </ul><H2>Keys </H2><ul> Some commands in the Midnight Commander involve the use of the <i>Control</i> (sometimes labeled CTRL or CTL) and the <i>Meta</i> (sometimes labeled ALT or even Compose) keys. In this manual we will use the following abbreviations: <p> C-&lt;chr&gt; means hold the Control key while typing the character &lt;chr&gt;. Thus C-f would be: hold the Control key and type f. <p> M-&lt;chr&gt; means hold the Meta or Alt key down while typing &lt;chr&gt;. If there is no Meta or Alt key, type ESC, release it, then type the character &lt;chr&gt;. <p> All input lines in the Midnight Commander use an approximation to the GNU Emacs editor's key bindings. <p> There are many sections which tell about the keys. The following are the most important. <p> The File Menu section documents the keyboard shortcuts for the commands appearing in the File menu. This section includes the function keys. Most of these commands perform some action, usually on the selected file or the tagged files. <p> The Directory Panels section documents the keys which select a file or tag files as a target for a later action (the action is usually one from the file menu). <p> The Shell Command Line section list the keys which are used for entering and editing command lines. Most of these copy file names and such from the directory panels to the command line (to avoid excessive typing) or access the command line history. <p> Input Line Keys are used for editing input lines. This means both the command line and the input lines in the query dialogs. <p> </ul><H2> Miscellaneous Keys </H2><ul> Here are some keys which don't fall into any of the other categories: <p> <b>Enter.</b> If there is some text in the command line (the one at the bottom of the panels), then that command is executed. If there is no text in the command line then