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Midnight Commander

Overview

Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

Shorcuts

  • Ctrl + x, q quick preview (x = comman, q = quick view)
  • Shift + F6 rename file
  • Ctrl + o open/close terminal
  • Ctrl + s cd in active panel
  • Esc + c quick cd
  • Esc + i open same directory in another panel
  • Ctrl + r refresh

Configure open as View/Open

Menu: Command > Edit extension file

regex/\.(.*)$
        Open=(open %f &)