

This is a pretty old implementation, with development started in 1994 and major features implemented around 1998 (in version 4.1.35). Archived from the original on 28 October 2002. GNOME 42 provides a focused working environment that helps you get things done. Midnight Commander (mc) is one of the most popular Unix command line Orthodox File Managers (OFMs) and in various version it is available in compiled form for all major UNIX flavors as well as in Windows with Cygwin installed.

It doesnt really quit mc, but that has the benefit that you can just. ranger, a file manager based on ncurses and python While its not exactly an answer to your question: just use ctrl+o to drop to the shell.As of version 4.7.0, mc has had Unicode support. The Midnight Commander searches in the system initialization file (the mc.lib file located in the Midnight Commander library directory) and in the /.mc/ini file for the section 'terminal:your-terminal-name' and then for the section 'terminal:general', each line of the section contains a key symbol that you want to define, followed by an equal sign and the definition for the key. Native support for UTF-8 locales for Unicode was added in 2009 to development versions of Midnight Commander.
