Opera & Midnight Commander

[Harijs Buss]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 21:18, Colin Brace rakstija:

> I share in many ways your general sentiments, but UTF-8 support can
> hardly be called "flash". I guess you don't have many filenames with
> accented characters...

Not in configuration files and other stuff needed when suddenly your 
installation stops or X crashes because of some small glitch easily 
correctable when you have mc at hand. This is how I saddly discovered that 
Kubuntu installation does not include Midnight Commander. Too bad.

MC is "first aid tool" in the first place. There are situations when one need 
to copy files, create and compare directories, edit configs, write some 
scripts, change ownership or executability, ftp some missing file - all using 
few keystrokes from the same simple text GUI of MC.  Many ex-Windows users 
know how to use FAR, ant that's very similar how to use MC.  Even ex-OS/2 
users know how to use Nemo, and this is all the same very similar to MC.  
Heck, even pure MS-DOS users (if there are still some left ;-) know Norton 
Commander, the grandfather of all these "blue panels" children MC belongs to. 
With MC all these ex-SomeOtherSystem users can take a breath, feel something 
familiar, cool down and start find their way to get things working. 

Accented letters and other "niceties" are rarely main problem in situations 
when you really need MC to be right there on install CD or in /usr/bin .

Remember, only 0.6 Mb and almost no dependencies... :-)

Harijs