MC put the file in a tab in Firefox? Huh? I thought that when you execute a Copy operation using a file manager and specify another folder as a destination, that the utility would place a copy (new instance of that same file) in the target folder. What gives? I kept looking for a copy of "bookmarks.html" to appear on my desktop. Aw, come on! I have never seen any sort of file manager do this sort of dumb trick. Only way I ever found it is I tried to do the same operation again later and got an overwrite warning. The stupid utility opened up a tab in Firefox and put it there.
MC copied my bookmarks file, all right- but I told it to copy to /home/clutter/desktop. OK, this is completely- I mean completely- counterintuitive.
It's the Swiss Army knife of File Managers equally at home in a Terminal window from a GUI or run directly from the Command Line. It's likely why I felt right at home with FTP managers like FileZilla (Windows), the old defunct Stereo Shell (DOS), gFTP (Linux - Gnome), and Transmit for Mac OS X so much.Just when you think you know all it can do, you hear about something new you can do!You can do so much with it! That's how it got it's name Midnight Commander (take off on the old Norton Commander). Using mc as a *nix style text editor (in place of vi) is only one of the many features of mc - Midnight Commander!Have been using it for many years now - since Mandriva was still Mandrake 7.0 and before that my Jim had introduced me to it on his at the time Redhat 6.0.Here's a great An Introduction to the Midnight Commander at Wikipedia has a nice compact article as well with links to the Official Midnight Commander page at ibiblio.You can even FTP/Sftp with it and have one side be the local computer and the other side be the remote computer.
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