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 ). - 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.