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Goal : Configuring Midnight Commander under Mac OS X bash terminal Castle maker game.
Acknowledgement : My gratitude goes to the open source community and especially to:
Miguel de Icaza – creator of Midnight Commander, Gnome, Mono, Gnumeric (and I guess other cool stuff)
Let’s get started!
Installation: I’m a huge fan of homebrew (thanks Max!) and I advise you to install it and work with it. In short, Homebrew is “the missing package manager for OS X”. Installing Homebrew is as easy as running the following command in the terminal prompt:
Once you have Homebrew, installing MC is exactly three words: Play free roulette games for fun.
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Side note: You may wish to install bash-completion and take advantage of the Tab key on the terminal prompt. If so, do the following:
… and ensure that your .bash_profile has the following content inside:
Note that you have to perform:
or re-open your terminal for the changes to take effect.
Mac OS X – fixing the shortcuts mess: No, I have no idea why the Apple guys have created such a big mess with the keyboard shortcuts. And yes, it’s up to you, my dearest reader, to decide if you want to fix it as I suggest. Here is what I’ve done so that I can use my Functional keys (the F keys):
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… and make sure you have All controls checked
After that go to:
… and make sure you have Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys checked
Next open a Terminal and go to:
… and make sure you have Use option as meta keyunchecked.
Now, every F9 will enable MC menu bar and every F10 button press will exit MC (instead of doing a complex fingers split which may not work but which will certainly hurt your hand).
Playing with MC shortcuts: What about the cool MC shortcuts? Before I present you with some of the shortcuts mapping you should be aware that pressing two times the Esc button will close any MC pop-up or search box, and that there are three types of shortcuts:
- Pressing (and releasing) Esc and then pressing another key
- Pressing and holding Ctrl and then pressing another key
- Using the Functional key
Here are some mappings:
Keeping working directory after exiting MC: Now, I find this MC feature really cool but of course it’s up to you to decide if you want to enabled it or not. In case you want, make sure you have the following (or similar, depending on the midnight commander version) line in your .bash_profile:
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Note that you have to perform:
or re-open your terminal for the changes to take effect.
About the App
- App name: midnight-commander
- App description: Terminal-based visual file manager
- App website: https://www.midnight-commander.org/
Install the App
- Press
Command+Spaceand type Terminal and press enter/return key. - Run in Terminal app:
ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
and press enter/return key.
If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish. - Run:
brew install midnight-commander
Done! You can now use midnight-commander.