1 Yet to be released version 4.6.
3 - GNOME edition has been removed.
4 - OS/2 port has been removed.
5 - Large file support enabled by default.
6 - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
7 - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
8 - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
9 - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
10 - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
11 - Editor supports word completion.
12 - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
13 if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server
14 - Mcfs support can be disabled now. Use configure --without-mcfs.
15 - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be configured.
16 - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
17 - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.
18 - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
19 - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but suggest the
20 selected filename as the destination.
24 - Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
27 - Text edition improvements.
28 - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
29 - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
30 and xterm in most cases.
32 - GNOME edition improvements.
33 - Find dialog rewritten.
34 - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
35 closed from window manager.
38 - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
39 - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
41 - Portability improvements.
42 - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
43 - Can be compiled by BSD make.
44 - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
46 - Experimental features (disabled by default).
47 - Charset conversion support.
48 - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
53 - Too many new features to list.
55 - This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
56 edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
57 manager is being written for the GNOME project.
63 - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
64 folders. New format for the hot list file.
65 - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
69 - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
70 of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
71 - Many dialog boxes now work.
72 - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
73 - Added many visual enhancements.
74 - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
77 - Now we do background copy and move operations.
78 (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
80 - Built in text editor
81 - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
82 The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
83 delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
84 definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
85 own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
86 text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
87 insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
88 through shell commands like indent.
90 Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
92 mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
95 - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
97 - Now we support both active and passive opens.
98 - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
100 - Much better support for proxies.
101 - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
103 - ext2fs Undelete File system
104 - Minor enhancements.
107 - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
109 - External File systems:
110 - Speeded up RPM file system.
111 - New LHA file system.
112 - New ARC file system.
113 - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
114 - New RAR file system.
115 - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
118 - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
121 - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
122 so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
123 - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
126 - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
127 (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
130 - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
131 interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
132 tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
136 - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
140 - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
144 - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
145 - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
148 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
153 - External File system:
154 - Mtools file system works.
155 - New Cpio file system.
156 - New RPM file system.
159 - support for HSC firewall
161 - Lots of subshell fixes
164 - Editing of non-local files works now.
166 - Bunch of bug fixes.
168 - Panelize now works properly.
170 - Can work on Nextstep now.
172 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
174 - Midnight Commander file system server:
175 - Fixed errno handling in the server.
176 - Fixed time handling in the server.
178 - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
182 This has been finished:
185 - Displays progress bars.
186 - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
187 - Better support for symlinked files.
188 - Handles those warez sites file names.
189 - Increase the directory cache timeout.
190 - Cache flushing (C-r)
191 - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
192 directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
194 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
195 - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
196 - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
197 - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
199 - Better command completion.
200 - Keypad handling enhanced:
201 - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
202 only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
203 - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
204 may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
206 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
207 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
209 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
210 on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
211 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
212 see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
214 %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
215 %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
216 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
217 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
218 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
219 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
221 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
224 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
225 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
226 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
227 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
231 This has been finished:
233 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
234 file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
235 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
236 with ncurses, if you want).
237 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
238 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
239 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
240 - Find file command is much faster.
241 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
242 criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
243 grep -l or anything else.
244 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
245 terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
247 - Advanced chown command.
248 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
249 directory respectively on the Linux console.
250 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
252 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
253 - Viewer has growing buffers.
254 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
255 input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
257 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
258 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
259 information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
260 mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
261 - Mask rename and copy.
262 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
264 This is being worked on:
265 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
266 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
272 Now users are able to define their own display
274 - User defined display formats.
276 Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
277 For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
278 instead of our defaults.
280 - User definable program layout.
282 Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
283 panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
284 program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
288 Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
289 console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
294 Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
295 the other panel on the idle time.
297 Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
298 We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
299 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
300 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
303 Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
304 the current file system as you move.
306 User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
309 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
311 The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
312 get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
313 and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
314 tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
319 Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
320 new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
323 Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
324 input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
327 - New option configuration.
329 Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
331 - Chmod and Chown commands:
333 For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
334 directories, uses our new dialog manager.
336 - Color customization support
338 Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
340 environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
341 terminal type) and command line.
343 - User menu and extension enhancements:
345 Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
347 User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
349 You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
351 Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
355 horizontal scrolling,
356 on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
357 allow non gunzip operation.
359 - Internal move command:
361 Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
362 program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
363 from the GNU fileutils.
365 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
370 Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
372 - Compare directories command
374 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
376 (You can even have two long panels).
378 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
380 - Improved help system.
382 We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
383 The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
385 - Allows tagging of directories:
387 Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
388 are not limited anymore to files.
390 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
392 On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
393 (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
396 - 8 bit clean support.
398 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
400 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
402 - It's better than aspirin.
404 - New memory allocation debugger.
406 During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
407 so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
410 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
411 sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
412 since that's where most of us develop it.
416 - Nice progress status indicator.
418 We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
419 indicator for file operations.
424 Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
433 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
437 Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
438 Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
439 Works on systems without mmap.
441 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
442 If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
443 to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
444 and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
446 - Help system and man page.
447 Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
448 help system can also be used with a mouse.
450 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
451 you ran by using the C-o key combination.
453 - Switch panels command (C-u)
454 - With filter command per panel.
455 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
456 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
457 - Much more portable.
458 - Many bugs were fixed.
462 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
463 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
464 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
468 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
469 - Added menu file edit.
470 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
472 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
473 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
474 over letters and numbers.
475 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
476 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
478 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
483 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
484 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
490 - Corrected Makefile.
494 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
495 and bottom file in the current panel.
496 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
497 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
498 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
499 - Some minor bug fixes.
504 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
505 - Verbose Copying of files.
506 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
507 - Support reverse sorting.
508 - Many visual enhancements.
509 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
510 - New truncation of names in the panels.
511 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
512 - Input line enhancements.
513 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
514 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
515 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
516 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
521 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
522 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
523 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
524 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
529 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
530 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
531 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
532 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
534 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
535 separated (like the Norton Commander).
536 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
540 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
541 things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
543 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
544 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
545 by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
546 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
547 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
548 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
549 (when only one file was tagged).
550 - Some cosmetic changes.
555 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
556 - New internal viewer.
557 - New long directory listing format.
562 - User Menus (F2 key).
563 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
564 - Char quoting (C-q).
565 - exec() enhancements.
566 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
567 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
572 - Setup loading/saving.
573 - Support for any size screen.
574 - Many, many bug fixes.