Re: Filemanager - low mem, but reasonably comfortable?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:58:31 GMT

On 26 Feb 2004 04:16:06 GMT, Chris F.A. Johnson <c.fa.johnson@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 03:00 GMT, Anton wrote:
>> Konqueror is pretty cool, but what if I insist on speed with a filemanager?
>> MC is alright, but my version lacks mouse support.
>> Console is slow for me when it comes to typing in file names.
>
> Use tab completion.

And all the keybindings for copying names from the panels to the command
line, where the cursor is or tagged files.

Meta-Return copies whatever file or dir is under the cursor to the commandline.

(the NAME that is :-)

MC takes a bit to learn, but is an incredible tool. Throw in some of your
own scripts and you've got the best desktop environment in the world.

I don't use a mouse with MC.

The manpage is a lot more useful than its internal help files. You can open
it in the shell "behind" mc which you get to and from with Ctrl-o, but
when you return to it from playing with MC, you have to do a Ctrl-r to
restore the screen.

Oops. I am rambling. .

AC

>> What is your choice?
>
> Shell, or Gentoo file manager.
>
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> Chris F.A. Johnson http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell
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