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.
12 - Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
15 - Text edition improvements.
16 - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
17 - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
18 and xterm in most cases.
20 - GNOME edition improvements.
21 - Find dialog rewritten.
22 - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
23 closed from window manager.
26 - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
27 - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
29 - Portability improvements.
30 - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
31 - Can be compiled by BSD make.
32 - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
34 - Experimental features (disabled by default).
35 - Charset conversion support.
36 - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
41 - Too many new features to list.
43 - This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
44 edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
45 manager is being written for the GNOME project.
51 - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
52 folders. New format for the hot list file.
53 - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
57 - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
58 of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
59 - Many dialog boxes now work.
60 - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
61 - Added many visual enhancements.
62 - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
65 - Now we do background copy and move operations.
66 (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
68 - Built in text editor
69 - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
70 The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
71 delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
72 definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
73 own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
74 text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
75 insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
76 through shell commands like indent.
78 Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
80 mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
83 - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
85 - Now we support both active and passive opens.
86 - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
88 - Much better support for proxies.
89 - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
91 - ext2fs Undelete File system
95 - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
97 - External File systems:
98 - Speeded up RPM file system.
99 - New LHA file system.
100 - New ARC file system.
101 - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
102 - New RAR file system.
103 - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
106 - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
109 - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
110 so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
111 - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
114 - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
115 (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
118 - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
119 interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
120 tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
124 - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
128 - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
132 - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
133 - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
136 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
141 - External File system:
142 - Mtools file system works.
143 - New Cpio file system.
144 - New RPM file system.
147 - support for HSC firewall
149 - Lots of subshell fixes
152 - Editing of non-local files works now.
154 - Bunch of bug fixes.
156 - Panelize now works properly.
158 - Can work on Nextstep now.
160 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
162 - Midnight Commander file system server:
163 - Fixed errno handling in the server.
164 - Fixed time handling in the server.
166 - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
170 This has been finished:
173 - Displays progress bars.
174 - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
175 - Better support for symlinked files.
176 - Handles those warez sites file names.
177 - Increase the directory cache timeout.
178 - Cache flushing (C-r)
179 - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
180 directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
182 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
183 - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
184 - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
185 - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
187 - Better command completion.
188 - Keypad handling enhanced:
189 - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
190 only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
191 - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
192 may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
194 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
195 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
197 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
198 on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
199 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
200 see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
202 %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
203 %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
204 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
205 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
206 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
207 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
209 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
212 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
213 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
214 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
215 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
219 This has been finished:
221 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
222 file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
223 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
224 with ncurses, if you want).
225 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
226 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
227 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
228 - Find file command is much faster.
229 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
230 criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
231 grep -l or anything else.
232 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
233 terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
235 - Advanced chown command.
236 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
237 directory respectively on the Linux console.
238 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
240 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
241 - Viewer has growing buffers.
242 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
243 input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
245 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
246 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
247 information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
248 mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
249 - Mask rename and copy.
250 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
252 This is being worked on:
253 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
254 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
260 Now users are able to define their own display
262 - User defined display formats.
264 Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
265 For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
266 instead of our defaults.
268 - User definable program layout.
270 Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
271 panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
272 program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
276 Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
277 console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
282 Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
283 the other panel on the idle time.
285 Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
286 We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
287 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
288 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
291 Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
292 the current file system as you move.
294 User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
297 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
299 The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
300 get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
301 and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
302 tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
307 Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
308 new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
311 Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
312 input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
315 - New option configuration.
317 Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
319 - Chmod and Chown commands:
321 For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
322 directories, uses our new dialog manager.
324 - Color customization support
326 Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
328 environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
329 terminal type) and command line.
331 - User menu and extension enhancements:
333 Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
335 User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
337 You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
339 Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
343 horizontal scrolling,
344 on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
345 allow non gunzip operation.
347 - Internal move command:
349 Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
350 program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
351 from the GNU fileutils.
353 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
358 Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
360 - Compare directories command
362 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
364 (You can even have two long panels).
366 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
368 - Improved help system.
370 We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
371 The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
373 - Allows tagging of directories:
375 Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
376 are not limited anymore to files.
378 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
380 On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
381 (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
384 - 8 bit clean support.
386 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
388 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
390 - It's better than aspirin.
392 - New memory allocation debugger.
394 During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
395 so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
398 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
399 sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
400 since that's where most of us develop it.
404 - Nice progress status indicator.
406 We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
407 indicator for file operations.
412 Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
421 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
425 Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
426 Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
427 Works on systems without mmap.
429 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
430 If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
431 to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
432 and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
434 - Help system and man page.
435 Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
436 help system can also be used with a mouse.
438 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
439 you ran by using the C-o key combination.
441 - Switch panels command (C-u)
442 - With filter command per panel.
443 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
444 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
445 - Much more portable.
446 - Many bugs were fixed.
450 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
451 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
452 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
456 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
457 - Added menu file edit.
458 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
460 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
461 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
462 over letters and numbers.
463 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
464 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
466 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
471 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
472 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
478 - Corrected Makefile.
482 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
483 and bottom file in the current panel.
484 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
485 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
486 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
487 - Some minor bug fixes.
492 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
493 - Verbose Copying of files.
494 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
495 - Support reverse sorting.
496 - Many visual enhancements.
497 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
498 - New truncation of names in the panels.
499 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
500 - Input line enhancements.
501 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
502 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
503 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
504 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
509 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
510 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
511 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
512 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
517 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
518 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
519 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
520 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
522 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
523 separated (like the Norton Commander).
524 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
528 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
529 things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
531 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
532 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
533 by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
534 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
535 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
536 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
537 (when only one file was tagged).
538 - Some cosmetic changes.
543 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
544 - New internal viewer.
545 - New long directory listing format.
550 - User Menus (F2 key).
551 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
552 - Char quoting (C-q).
553 - exec() enhancements.
554 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
555 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
560 - Setup loading/saving.
561 - Support for any size screen.
562 - Many, many bug fixes.