Comments on: Something old, something new: Console file managers http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mcx http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-49228 Wed, 04 May 2011 16:38:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-49228 XTree
An old console directory tree file manager(1976?)>As I’ve read, the guy who made it was or is the inventor of the directory tree.
http://www.xtreefanpage.org/

-Your blog is great!

]]> By: Information, please « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-48923 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:12:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-48923 [...] persea, who did 90 percent of the legwork for this, and suggested a three-way partnership between ranger, atool and mediainfo. But persea can explain that to us. [...]

]]> By: Army http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45305 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:31:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45305 Or simply press backspace or ctrl+h, these two also show hidden files.

]]> By: Sitaram http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45296 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:44:39 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45296 type ‘z’ then ‘h’

]]> By: tomas http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45288 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:06:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45288 How do you see hidden files with this thing? :D Yes, I’m a newb trying out things way out of my league :D

]]> By: msx http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45278 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:37:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-45278 Awesome! Not only shows text files, even graphic files (probiding you have installed feh).

You have my email, let me know if you want to translate Ranger to spanish =)

]]> By: Sitaram http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42936 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:22:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42936 If you have to browse through a file hierarchy, systematically or randomly looking for stuff, marking things, and doing things to marked files, etc., ranger beats midnight commander hands down.

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/ranger-users/2010-04/msg00018.html describes how…

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42882 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:48:33 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42882 A lot of Midnight Commander’s complexity and functionality is optional, you can choose not to include things when you compile it (the FTP functionality, for example). ;) I compiled a rather tiny version that only had the functionality of the original Norton Commander once. :)

]]> By: Muskegwanderer http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42880 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:59:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42880 The Midnight Commander is wonderful but complex and a bit of an eye full. For really simple tasks, like scooting about and viewing and editing text files, Pilot can’t be beaten. This app’s ability to append selected file paths and names in the Launch function is especially useful.

]]> By: kamiheku http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42849 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:44:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/#comment-42849 Yay, ranger! :) And hey, there is actually an option to draw borders, called “draw_borders”. Configure it in your options.py.

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