1 Yet to be released version 4.6.
3 - GNOME edition has been removed.
4 - Large file support enabled by default.
5 - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
6 - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
7 - New syntax rules - PHP.
8 - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
9 - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
13 - Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
16 - Text edition improvements.
17 - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
18 - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
19 and xterm in most cases.
21 - GNOME edition improvements.
22 - Find dialog rewritten.
23 - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
24 closed from window manager.
27 - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
28 - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
30 - Portability improvements.
31 - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
32 - Can be compiled by BSD make.
33 - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
35 - Experimental features (disabled by default).
36 - Charset conversion support.
37 - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
42 - Too many new features to list.
44 - This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
45 edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
46 manager is being written for the GNOME project.
52 - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
53 folders. New format for the hot list file.
54 - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
58 - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
59 of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
60 - Many dialog boxes now work.
61 - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
62 - Added many visual enhancements.
63 - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
66 - Now we do background copy and move operations.
67 (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
69 - Built in text editor
70 - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
71 The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
72 delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
73 definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
74 own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
75 text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
76 insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
77 through shell commands like indent.
79 Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
81 mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
84 - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
86 - Now we support both active and passive opens.
87 - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
89 - Much better support for proxies.
90 - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
92 - ext2fs Undelete File system
96 - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
98 - External File systems:
99 - Speeded up RPM file system.
100 - New LHA file system.
101 - New ARC file system.
102 - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
103 - New RAR file system.
104 - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
107 - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
110 - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
111 so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
112 - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
115 - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
116 (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
119 - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
120 interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
121 tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
125 - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
129 - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
133 - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
134 - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
137 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
142 - External File system:
143 - Mtools file system works.
144 - New Cpio file system.
145 - New RPM file system.
148 - support for HSC firewall
150 - Lots of subshell fixes
153 - Editing of non-local files works now.
155 - Bunch of bug fixes.
157 - Panelize now works properly.
159 - Can work on Nextstep now.
161 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
163 - Midnight Commander file system server:
164 - Fixed errno handling in the server.
165 - Fixed time handling in the server.
167 - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
171 This has been finished:
174 - Displays progress bars.
175 - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
176 - Better support for symlinked files.
177 - Handles those warez sites file names.
178 - Increase the directory cache timeout.
179 - Cache flushing (C-r)
180 - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
181 directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
183 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
184 - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
185 - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
186 - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
188 - Better command completion.
189 - Keypad handling enhanced:
190 - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
191 only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
192 - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
193 may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
195 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
196 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
198 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
199 on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
200 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
201 see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
203 %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
204 %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
205 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
206 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
207 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
208 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
210 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
213 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
214 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
215 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
216 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
220 This has been finished:
222 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
223 file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
224 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
225 with ncurses, if you want).
226 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
227 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
228 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
229 - Find file command is much faster.
230 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
231 criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
232 grep -l or anything else.
233 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
234 terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
236 - Advanced chown command.
237 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
238 directory respectively on the Linux console.
239 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
241 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
242 - Viewer has growing buffers.
243 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
244 input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
246 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
247 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
248 information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
249 mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
250 - Mask rename and copy.
251 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
253 This is being worked on:
254 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
255 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
261 Now users are able to define their own display
263 - User defined display formats.
265 Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
266 For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
267 instead of our defaults.
269 - User definable program layout.
271 Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
272 panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
273 program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
277 Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
278 console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
283 Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
284 the other panel on the idle time.
286 Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
287 We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
288 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
289 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
292 Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
293 the current file system as you move.
295 User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
298 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
300 The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
301 get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
302 and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
303 tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
308 Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
309 new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
312 Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
313 input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
316 - New option configuration.
318 Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
320 - Chmod and Chown commands:
322 For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
323 directories, uses our new dialog manager.
325 - Color customization support
327 Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
329 environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
330 terminal type) and command line.
332 - User menu and extension enhancements:
334 Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
336 User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
338 You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
340 Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
344 horizontal scrolling,
345 on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
346 allow non gunzip operation.
348 - Internal move command:
350 Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
351 program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
352 from the GNU fileutils.
354 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
359 Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
361 - Compare directories command
363 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
365 (You can even have two long panels).
367 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
369 - Improved help system.
371 We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
372 The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
374 - Allows tagging of directories:
376 Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
377 are not limited anymore to files.
379 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
381 On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
382 (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
385 - 8 bit clean support.
387 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
389 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
391 - It's better than aspirin.
393 - New memory allocation debugger.
395 During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
396 so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
399 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
400 sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
401 since that's where most of us develop it.
405 - Nice progress status indicator.
407 We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
408 indicator for file operations.
413 Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
422 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
426 Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
427 Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
428 Works on systems without mmap.
430 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
431 If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
432 to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
433 and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
435 - Help system and man page.
436 Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
437 help system can also be used with a mouse.
439 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
440 you ran by using the C-o key combination.
442 - Switch panels command (C-u)
443 - With filter command per panel.
444 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
445 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
446 - Much more portable.
447 - Many bugs were fixed.
451 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
452 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
453 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
457 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
458 - Added menu file edit.
459 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
461 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
462 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
463 over letters and numbers.
464 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
465 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
467 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
472 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
473 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
479 - Corrected Makefile.
483 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
484 and bottom file in the current panel.
485 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
486 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
487 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
488 - Some minor bug fixes.
493 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
494 - Verbose Copying of files.
495 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
496 - Support reverse sorting.
497 - Many visual enhancements.
498 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
499 - New truncation of names in the panels.
500 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
501 - Input line enhancements.
502 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
503 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
504 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
505 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
510 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
511 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
512 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
513 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
518 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
519 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
520 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
521 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
523 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
524 separated (like the Norton Commander).
525 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
529 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
530 things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
532 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
533 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
534 by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
535 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
536 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
537 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
538 (when only one file was tagged).
539 - Some cosmetic changes.
544 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
545 - New internal viewer.
546 - New long directory listing format.
551 - User Menus (F2 key).
552 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
553 - Char quoting (C-q).
554 - exec() enhancements.
555 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
556 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
561 - Setup loading/saving.
562 - Support for any size screen.
563 - Many, many bug fixes.