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README
1Contents
2--------
3
4Introduction
5Dependencies
6Features
7Mini-documentation
8Where to get more information
9Reporting problems
10
11
12Introduction
13------------
14
15GNU Midnight Commander (also referred to as MC) is a user shell with
16text-mode full-screen interface. It can be run on the OS console,
17in xterm and other terminal emulators.
18
19GNU Midnight Commander allows you to manage files while making most of
20you screen and giving you a clear representation of the filesystem, yet
21it's simple enough to be run over a telnet or ssh session.
22
23GNU Midnight Commander is released under the GNU General Public
24License version 3 or any later version. A copy of the file is
25included with this distribution package.
26
27
28Dependencies
29------------
30
31Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions
32and full list of dependencies.
33
34
35Features
36--------
37
38GNU Midnight Commander was conceived as a free clone of John Socha's
39Norton Commander (TM). It also takes the best from more recent software
40with similar interfaces. GNU Midnight Commander comes with mouse support
41on xterm and optionally on the Linux console.
42
43Some features are specific to the POSIX environment MC runs on, some are
44familiar to the users of similar software for other operating systems.
45The features include:
46
47 * Built in Virtual File System: manipulate remote file systems
48 through the FTP and SMB protocols or over secure shell, browse
49 contents of tar, ar, rpm, zip, cpio, lha and rar archives just
50 like local files.
51
52 * Almost all operations work with the virtual file system,
53 enabling you to do complex tasks, like viewing files in
54 archives on an FTP server.
55
56 * Mouse support on most terminal emulators for X Window System
57 as well as on the Linux console.
58
59 * Learn Keys: GNU Midnight Commander may be configured at run
60 time to support any kind of input keys for a given terminal,
61 making its operation possible even on most weird terminals.
62
63 * Text and hex editors are available for you to use (hex editor
64 is a part of the viewer).
65
66 * Hotlist allows you to keep a list of common visited locations,
67 including remote sites and directories inside archives.
68
69 * Command completion: By pressing Alt-Tab in any place where a
70 filename or an executable are expected, GNU Midnight Commander
71 will complete the name for you. If you press Alt-Tab for the
72 second time, you get a list box with all possible completions.
73
74 * Subshell support: Run your commands by a real shell
75 interpreter. GNU Midnight Commander interacts with bash,
76 tcsh and zsh to provide you with all of the facilities
77 available in your preferred shell.
78
79 * Find file command can search for the file contents.
80
81 * Background operations allow you to copy or move files from
82 any virtual file system while you do other tasks (i.e., you
83 can do background FTP copies).
84
85 * FTP proxy is supported.
86
87 * Linux file recovery: If you are using Linux, you can recover
88 deleted files from an ext2 or ext3 partition with the undelete
89 file system. This is a low level file recovery function that
90 can recover files deleted by any program on Linux.
91
92 * External panelization: You can run any arbitrary external
93 command and GNU Midnight Commander will display the output
94 generated as a file listing that can be manipulated as a
95 regular directory.
96
97 * Emacs-like key bindings are used in all widgets.
98
99 * Context dependent actions (open, view, edit) are available.
100
101 * The built-in file viewer, together with the context dependent
102 actions is used to format man pages on the fly, coloring mail
103 messages and more.
104
105 * The built-in editor supports syntax highlighting and external
106 actions, such as spell checking and formatting.
107
108
109Mini-documentation
110------------------
111
112These are hints for the text mode edition:
113
114* Use the F-Keys for invoking the commands in the function key bar.
115 If your terminal doesn't support F-keys, you can use the <ESC digit>
116 sequence to invoke the corresponding F-digit key.
117
118* Tab changes the current panel.
119
120* All input lines have emacs-like key-bindings (command history is
121 accessed through the M-p and M-n keys).
122
123* The panels accept C-n, C-p for browsing the panel (like in Emacs).
124
125* M-Enter copies the currently selected file name to the input line.
126
127* M-Tab completes the current word (or tries to).
128
129* The Virtual File System is a cute addition to the project, you may
130 browse in tar and compressed tar files as well as browsing remote
131 machines with the fish file system.
132
133* Please read the manual page.
134
135You can access the whole documentation online with the F1 key,
136although it's not as nice as the groff printed manual page :-)
137
138
139Where to get more information
140-----------------------------
141
142There is a webpage for GNU Midnight Commander at
143
144https://www.midnight-commander.org/
145
146This page also has current information about mailing lists and some
147useful advices how to report bugs.
148
149You can download the latest version of GNU Midnight Commander from
150
151https://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/
152
153
154Reporting problems
155------------------
156
157You can report bug on our site, please read
158
159https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc/reportDefects
160
161Also you can use mc mailing lists to discuss problems.
162
163There are two mailing lists, mc@gnome.org and mc-devel@gnome.org. Use
164mc-devel@gnome.org if you are prepared for a more technical discussion
165with the developers of the package, otherwise use mc@gnome.org.
166
167Please don't sent HTML e-mail to either of those mailing lists.
168
169Include the output of "mc --version", the operating system and the
170distribution (if applicable) you are using, the compiler and the
171configure flags used to compile the program (if you know them).
172
173If the program crashed and produced a core dump, please provide a
174stack trace of the program.
175
176You can do this by running gdb like this:
177
178gdb mc core
179(gdb) where
180