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- Version 2.0
-
- New features:
- -------------
-
- Now users are able to define their own display
-
- Version 2.0
-
- - 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:
-
- 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 Midngith 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:
- environement 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: nc /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.
-