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- Version 3.1
-
- This has been finished:
-
- - Enhanced ftpfs:
- - Displays progress bars.
- - Supports netware and windows nt servers
- - Better support for symlinked files.
- - Handles those warez sites file names.
- - Increase the directory cache timeout.
- - Cache flushing (C-r)
- - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
- directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
- - More robust.
- - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
- - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
- - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
- - Rewrote the sync code between the parend and child, should not hang
- any longer.
- - Better command completion.
- - Keypad handling enhanced:
- - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
- only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
- - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
- may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
- free.
- - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
- - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
- - Global kill ring.
- - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
- on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
- - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
- see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
- - New macros:
- %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
- %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
- - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
- - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
- - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
- - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
-
- This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
- release:
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- Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
- Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kikonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
- Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
- Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
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- Version 3.0
-
- This has been finished:
-
- - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
- file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
- - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
- with ncurses, if you want).
- - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
- - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
- - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
- - Find file command is much faster.
- - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
- criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
- grep -l or anything else.
- - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
- terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
- are not working.
- - Advanced chown command.
- - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
- directory respectively on the Linux console.
- - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
- other (0-255).
- - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
- - Viewer has growing buffers.
- - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
- input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
- line.
- - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
- - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
- information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
- mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
- - Mask rename and copy.
- - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
-
- This is being worked on:
- - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
- - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
- up and running).
-
-
- Version 2.0
-
- Now users are able to define their own display
-
- - User defined display formats.
-
- Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
- For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
- instead of our defaults.
-
- - User definable program layout.
-
- Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
- panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
- program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
-
- - Output window.
-
- Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
- console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
- menu.
-
- - New View modes:
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- Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
- the other panel on the idle time.
-
- Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
- We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
- not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
- browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
- want to :-).
-
- Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
- the current file system as you move.
-
- User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
- want to use.
-
- - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
-
- The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
- get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
- and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
- tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
- available.
-
- - Dialog box manager
-
- Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
- new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
- in DOS and Windows.
-
- Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
- input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
- your applications).
-
- - New option configuration.
-
- Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
-
- - Chmod and Chown commands:
-
- For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
- directories, uses our new dialog manager.
-
- - Color customization support
-
- Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
- these:
- environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
- terminal type) and command line.
-
- - User menu and extension enhancements:
-
- Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
-
- User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
-
- You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
-
- Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
-
- - Viewer:
- Goto line command,
- horizontal scrolling,
- on the fly uncompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
- allow non gunzip operation.
-
- - Internal move command:
-
- Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
- program is more robust and is much faster. Bunchs of code come
- from the GNU fileutils.
-
- - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searchs of
- file names.
-
- - Mask rename:
-
- Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
-
- - Compare directories command
-
- - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
-
- (You can even have two long panels).
-
- - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
-
- - Improved help system.
-
- We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
- The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
-
- - Allows tagging of directories:
-
- Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
- are not limited anymore to files.
-
- - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
-
- On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
- (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
- cursos positions.
-
- - 8 bit clean support.
-
- if ncurses is 8 bit clean, you can see international characters
- (we include a patch against ncurses 1.8.5).
-
- - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
-
- - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
-
- - It's better than aspirin.
-
- - New memory allocation debugger.
-
- During testing time, we used a powerfull memory allocation debugger,
- so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
- your memory.
-
- - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
- sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
- since that's where most of us develop it.
-
- - Inode sort option.
-
- - Nice progress status indicator.
-
- We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
- indicator for file operations.
-
- Version 0.15
-
- - Uses GNU autoconf.
- Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
- i386-*-linux1.0
- i386-*-linux1.1
- mips-sgi-irix5.2
- mips-dec-ultrix4.3
- rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
- sparc-sun-sunos4.1
- sparc-sun-solaris2.3
-
- - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
- Wrap/Unwrap mode.
- Hex mode.
- Hex searches.
- Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
- Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
- Works on systems without mmap.
-
- - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
- If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
- to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
- and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
-
- - Help system and man page.
- Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
- help system can also be used with a mouse.
-
- - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
- you ran by using the C-o key combination.
-
- - Switch panels command (C-u)
- - With filter command per panel.
- - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
- - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
- - Much more portable.
- - Many bugs were fixed.
-
- Version 0.14
-
- - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
- - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
- - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
-
- Version 0.13
-
- - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
- - Added menu file edit.
- - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
- directory.
- - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
- - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
- over letters and numbers.
- - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
- - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
- way.
- - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
- - Bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.12
-
- - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
- - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
- - bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.11
-
- - Support cd -.
- - Corrected Makefile.
-
- Version 0.10
-
- - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
- and bottom file in the current panel.
- - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
- - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
- - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
- - Some minor bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.9
-
- - Mouse Support.
- - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
- - Verbose Copying of files.
- - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
- - Support reverse sorting.
- - Many visual enhancements.
- - Per panel options are saved and restored.
- - New truncation of names in the panels.
- - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
- - Input line enhancements.
- - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
- - Cache in gid and uid translators.
- - More keybindings for the Input lines.
- - Better kill management in Input Lines.
- - Bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.8
-
- - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
- - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
- - Unlimited input lines (command line).
- - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
- - Many bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.7
-
- - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
- - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
- - New history in the hypertext viewer.
- - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
- input line.
- - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
- separated (like the Norton Commander).
- - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
-
- Version 0.6
-
- - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
- things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
- Enter key).
- - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
- - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
- by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
- - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
- - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
- - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
- (when only one file was tagged).
- - Some cosmetic changes.
- - Bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.5
-
- - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
- - New internal viewer.
- - New long directory listing format.
- - some bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.4
-
- - User Menus (F2 key).
- - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
- - Char quoting (C-q).
- - exec() enhancements.
- - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
- - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
- - misc bug fixes.
-
- Version 0.3
-
- - Setup loading/saving.
- - Support for any size screen.
- - Many, many bug fixes.
-